Something Fishy in Wisconsin
Election integrity journalist Brad Friedman takes issue with the results from Wisconsin and the idea that we should trust "secret, proprietary systems" and election officials. "I don't think we should have to trust anybody in an election. Our system wasn't built on trust, it was built on checks and balances."Election integrity journalist Brad Friedman takes issue with the results from Wisconsin and the idea that we should trust “secret, proprietary systems” and election officials. “I don’t think we should have to trust anybody in an election. Our system wasn’t built on trust, it was built on checks and balances.”
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For more than 10 years now, Brad Friedman has been doing the difficult and thankless work of covering America's horribly broken elections system.
Brad Friedman has taken an exhaustive look at Wisconsin's Supreme Court recount -- a race that held national interest before dropping off the radar -- and determined that officials are working without transparency, using flawed techniques and posting false information.
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