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Melissa Hughes: “The state is responsible for our elections, both, you know…”

Featuring: Melissa Hughes, Secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

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Former WEDC Sec Missy Hughes discusses municipal/school dist govt w/ Glendale Mayor Bryan Kennedy

Published | Video Starts at 14:52

Every day we are seeing headlines about that. And we have to make sure that everyone knows that elections are our power in the state. The state is responsible for our elections, both, you know, federally all the way down to the smallest election. And in my little township of, you know, 200 people voting and ending with a flip of a coin and everybody accepted the results, right? (14:52–14:59)

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Asserts that the state is responsible for elections at all levels.

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