The Northernmost Banana Republic

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“IT LOOKED LIKE A FOREIGN COUNTRY, like one of these fledgling democracies.”

That’s how Milwaukee voter Jack Zimmerman described the chaos of the 2000 presidential election in Wisconsin. Zimmerman, a Republican, said that he spent Election Day listening to so many stories of vote fraud at polling stations near Marquette University that by the end of the day he decided to check things out for himself.

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