{"id":6755,"date":"2014-10-16T13:26:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T19:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6755"},"modified":"2014-10-16T13:30:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T19:30:04","slug":"uw-professors-keep-hands-off-the-gab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6755","title":{"rendered":"UW-Madison Professors: Keep Hands Off the GAB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/media.jrn.com\/designimages\/MJS-logo-med.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"76\" \/>Four University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/opinion\/keep-hands-off-the-gab-b99371374z1-279367362.html\">write<\/a> in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/\"><em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em><\/a> that politicians should not interfere with the management of the Government Accountability Board (GAB). Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Burlington) <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/assembly-speaker-robin-vos-says-elections-agency-head-has-to\/article_2357f9f5-b54f-5961-ad73-a78f4232b7be.html\">recently called\u00a0for the removal<\/a> of GAB director Kevin Kennedy, saying the board was dysfunctional and undemocratic.<\/p>\n<p>PROFS Steering Committee member Donald Moynihan,\u00a0Barry Burden, David Canon, and Kenneth Mayer contend the board operates independently and faces\u00a0criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike. They write the board is comprised of former non-partisan judges nominated by the governor and approved by a\u00a0majority of the State Senate. The six-member board has the authority to remove the director if they choose.<\/p>\n<p>The four professors also cite a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.uci.edu\/lawreview\/vol3\/no3\/tokaji.pdf\">journal article<\/a> that found the GAB to be the country&#8217;s\u00a0top model for independent election administration. According to that article, Wisconsin has the only non-partisan multi-member elections board in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The full column is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/opinion\/keep-hands-off-the-gab-b99371374z1-279367362.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientists write in today&#8217;s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that politicians should not interfere with the management of the Government Accountability Board (GAB). Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Burlington) recently called\u00a0for the removal of GAB director Kevin Kennedy,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6755\">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":[20,23,119],"class_list":["post-6755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-state","tag-elections","tag-faculty","tag-gab","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755","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=6755"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6766,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions\/6766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}