Tuesday, April 19, 2022

GET ME REWRITE: These 4 Dane County Board ghost candidates lost their races by big margins

 

HeadlineCapital Times, 4/19/2022
“There weren't meaningful choices in a lot of cases. There also just isn't a lot of visibility of candidates in spring elections,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The lack of contested races affected voters directly because many of them, I think, said to themselves, there just wasn't a reason to participate.” 
Because of that, some competitive local seats were decided by tighter margins — even with candidates who didn’t campaign at all.



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