When former Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher announced his resignation, leaving on April 24, he did so to punish and weaken his own party. But as it turns out, that bit of sleight-of-hand has caused additional trouble back in his home state. The chaotic timing of his departure has left Wisconsin election officials in a difficult situation and it’s been leading to potential confusion among the state’s voters. The election officials voted this week to amend the ballots and advance voter information notifications to explain why the same congressional seat will be showing up twice on their ballots. The whole situation is something of a mess and could have been easily avoided if Gallagher hadn’t decided to be such a jerk about this. (CBS News)
Wisconsin election officials voted Thursday to provide more details to voters than normal to avoid confusion about a ballot that will have…
