There are a couple of lions that guard the entrance to the Zeidler Building in Milwaukee. They are a gift from a sister city in China to adorn what is basically our City Hall, part 2. It's an ugly modern building next door and slightly uphill from our beautiful Flemish Renaissance style City Hall. It may not be as pretty as its sister building but unlike the mostly hollow old building, Zeidler, which was named after the last of four Socialist mayors, is all business.
It's also where I've voted for twenty years. I can see it out my window right now. It's where I absentee voted a few days ago. The building itself is closed to the public now. I voted from a line of cars. It looks like Wisconsin's election will go forward on Tuesday because Republicans in power don't want us to vote or to die if we do.
My polling place, the City Hall, will be closed on Tuesday.
If I had waited I would be standing in line with thousands of others at South Division High School. That's an irritation for me and a hardship for many more. Worse? You might not think it but Milwaukee is a big city. And we vote. We always turn out. And there will be only five polling places. In the middle of an epidemic. How can you social distance in a line of thousands? What does that even look like? And, judging from what happened with early voting, everything takes so much longer.
I don't know what the election looks like in the rest of the state but Milwaukee is by far the largest part of the state and there is zero reason to trust the results of this election and it hasn't even really started yet.
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It's also where I've voted for twenty years. I can see it out my window right now. It's where I absentee voted a few days ago. The building itself is closed to the public now. I voted from a line of cars. It looks like Wisconsin's election will go forward on Tuesday because Republicans in power don't want us to vote or to die if we do.
My polling place, the City Hall, will be closed on Tuesday.
If I had waited I would be standing in line with thousands of others at South Division High School. That's an irritation for me and a hardship for many more. Worse? You might not think it but Milwaukee is a big city. And we vote. We always turn out. And there will be only five polling places. In the middle of an epidemic. How can you social distance in a line of thousands? What does that even look like? And, judging from what happened with early voting, everything takes so much longer.
I don't know what the election looks like in the rest of the state but Milwaukee is by far the largest part of the state and there is zero reason to trust the results of this election and it hasn't even really started yet.
Political discussion welcome.
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