Democracy Defense Project-WI, WisPolitics, WIPPS Host Election Reform Forum

Last week the Democracy Defense Project – Wisconsin partnered with WisPolitics and the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service to host a bipartisan conversation around election administration and proposed reforms to increase public faith in the election system.

The discussion featured former Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, former Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, State Representative Scott Krug (R–Rome), State Representative Lee Snodgrass (D–Appleton), Marathon County Clerk Kim Trueblood, Portage County Clerk Maria Davis, former U.S. Representative Scott Klug and former Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate.

“Right now we have, with the voter ID that we instituted many years ago now in the state of Wisconsin, I think we have very good elections,” said J.B Van Hollen, DDP Board Member and former Wisconsin Attorney General. “What we don’t have is the public confidence in our elections.”

Fellow DDP Board Member and former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, said that reform should create clearance to, “process those ballots earlier on, so that folks are not waiting until 2, 3, or 4 a.m. to find out the results of an election.”

Watch the full presentation at WisPolitics or on the WIPPS YouTube channel.