From Howie Hawkins 2020 <[email protected]>
Subject What the Dems aren't telling you about Wisconsin
Date September 13, 2020 6:20 PM
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HIĀ ,



Well, we finally made the mainstream media, but while 2016 was all about

slandering Stein/Baraka as Russian assets, this year it's that Howie and

Angela are tools of the Republican Party that are denying people in

Wisconsin their absentee ballots.



Nothing could be further from the truth. The Green Party's track record as

being the party of election integrity is clear. _WE_ are the ones regularly

pressing for integrity from elections authorities around the country. _WE_

are the ones pushing to replace bad voting machines with auditable paper

ballots and ending voter suppression via racist voter ID laws and party

suppression.



The simple solution in Wisconsin is for the Democrats to immediately stop

playing games and using delaying tactics to prevent voters from being able

to support third-party candidates, get new ballots printed that include

Howie and Angela as a choice, and send them out. Both major parties collude

to boost their own electoral chances in a myriad of ways and deny voters'

and candidates' major rights.



So what exactly is happening in Wisconsin? Here's a quick run-down:



* When we realized that Angela Walker's change of address could become an

issue, we took it upon ourselves to inform the Wisconsin Elections

Commission.

* After three different sets of instructions over three days, the

commission staff finally instructed us to include a notarized statement of

candidacy with Angela's new address when we filed the petitions...which we

completed to the letter.

* The state law only accepts a maximum of 4,000 signatures to be

submitted for a minimum of 2,000 signatures needed to get on the ballot. We

actually collected nearly 6,000. The staff of the Board of Elections found

that more than 3,000 of the signatures were valid.

* A challenge was filed against our petitions, claiming that the change

of address invalidated many of them, which conveniently brought us to below

2,000 signatures.

* NONE of the signatures were actually ruled invalid.

* We were summoned to a hearing with the Elections Commission, during

which we were restricted from offering testimony that pointed out the

breakdown in process from the commission staff. Our rights of due process

were severely restricted by the chair of the commission, a Democrat

appointee.

* The attorney representing the Democratic challenger huddled with the

chair of the commission before the hearing to agree on how to restrict our

testimony.

* The commission ended up being deadlocked on the validity of the

signatures, which means that they are presumed to be valid.

* The commission did uphold the challenge to Angela's address.

* Because of these irregularities, we decided to sue. Because of the time

constraints before absentee ballots were to be printed, we sued in the

Wisconsin Supreme Court.

* It took time to find an attorney that would represent us, and every

Democrat-aligned attorney we contacted ignored us.

* The Court ordered the Wisconsin Elections Commission to provide a list

of everyone who has requested an absentee ballot, as well as a list of

everyone who has actually received one. That list was due last Tuesday at 5

pm CDT.

* As of our last information, the Elections Commission was not able to

provide those lists to the Court. They reported in the media that they were

only able to find out information about some of the counties.

* Yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported [8] that NO COUNTY

has actually mailed out an absentee ballot.



The Democrats are telling the media that they've mailed out thousands of

ballots, when really county elections officials printed _mailing labels_

and count these as "sent." This is pure spin and a departure from the

truth. They are waging a media battle against us to cover up their own

failure to respect the democratic process and to ensure that accurate data

was available on demand.



How can we trust that our elections will be fair, when the process is used

as a soccer ball between the two ruling parties?



The delay is actually coming from the Democrats, not this campaign or the

Green Party. If they would have allowed us to offer a proper testimony in

the hearing, they would have been compelled to deny the challenge. If they

would have accurate information on county elections data at their

fingertips as they should have, there would be no delay.



Further, we have never had any conversations with the state GOP. They are

not directing our legal actions. We are compelled by the wishes of nearly

6,000 Wisconsinites who want to see the Green Party on the ballot.



We will not back down from our position that Howie Hawkins and Angela

Walker should be placed on the ballot without further delay. Our signatures

are solid, the paperwork is in order, and in the interest of serving

democracy, the Democrats should abandon the spin and misinformation and

step aside so that absentee ballots can be sent out.



In solidarity,



TEAM HOWIE



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