{"id":6397,"date":"2014-03-31T18:33:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T00:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6397"},"modified":"2014-03-31T18:33:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T00:33:25","slug":"tuesday-april-1-is-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6397","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, April 1 is Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-898 alignright\" alt=\"election day\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day.jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day.jpg 600w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a>Spring 2014 elections will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. While most races on the ballot are local and non-partisan, voters in Dane County will be asked their preferences on two legislative issues, including one on redistricting legislation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DANE COUNTY REFERENDUM #1<br \/>\n&#8220;Should the Wisconsin Constitution be amended to require a nonpartisan system for redistricting legislative and congressional districts in the state?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>PROFS is registered in support of <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2013\/proposals\/ab185\">AB 185<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2013\/proposals\/sb163\">SB 163<\/a>, bills that would\u00a0change the way the state draws legislative and congressional districts every ten years. The bills would shift the work of redistricting from the Legislature to the non-partisan Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB).<\/p>\n<p>A second referendum asks voters if the state should legalize marijuana.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">Voters can check their registration status, learn more about local races, and find where to vote on the <a href=\"https:\/\/myvote.wi.gov\/Home.aspx\">MyVoteWisconsin website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring 2014 elections will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. While most races on the ballot are local and non-partisan, voters in Dane County will be asked their preferences on two legislative issues, including one on redistricting legislation: DANE&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6397\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,49],"class_list":["post-6397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-state","tag-elections","tag-redistricting","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6397"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6403,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions\/6403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}