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) S4 Q. K- _% t b# r( i Voter confidence in election results is key to our democracy.But Marquette Law School polling has found nearly two-thirds of Wisconsin Republicans were not confident in the 2020 election results compared to more than 90% of Democrats who were.In a TMJ4 Lighthouse report, Chief Political Reporter Charles Benson looks at a new bi-partisan effort launched Tuesday to win over doubters of election integrity in Wisconsin.Tammy Ayers and her husband Lee say they never miss a vote, elections are important to them.They have no doubt their ballots will be counted correctly. None whatsoever, said Tammy A stanley spain yers. Never had that doubt. Mandela Barnes has seen his share of election battles. The best way to ensure trust in an election is to participate in it, said the former Democratic Lt Governor.TMJ4 caught up with Barnes and Republican JB Van Hollen at Walker s Point Anodyne Coffee to talk about election integrity.The former Wisconsin attorney general was asked if he worries about peo stanley cups ple losing trust in the election system. I do worry , said Van Hollen, which is why we ve banded together. The two former elected leaders are on opposite political parties but have teamed with the newly formed Democracy Defense Project to promote safe and secure elections especially when th stanley cups uk ey are close in battleground Wisconsin.Barnes narrowly lost by one percentage point in the 2022 U.S. Senate race and Van Hollen narrowly won his statewide election by less a half percent in 2006. Out of my deep respect Kzms Witness describes terrifying armed robbery at George Webb downtown
- }' g n( m( N" c9 D$ i Many Americans await anxiously for federal aid money to pay t stanley termosky housands of dollars in back rent.Nohemi Rojas is one of them. My application [was submitted] June 23. This is very slow, she said.Rojas lives in Queens, New York. She requested help from the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, and yet she has not received any. Now, she and her children could lose their place to live. I don t want to be homeless outside because I get scared on the streets, Rojas daughter Yoseline Diaz said.Landlords are also on the edge of losing their properties.One in New York, Clarence Hamer, said, It s unfair to small independent landlords. The state of New York received nearly $3 billion fr stanley quencher om the Emergency Rental Assistance Program 鈥?yet the state has only doled out less than 1% of the funds.Rebecca Garrard, legislative director at Citizen Action of New York, says the housing emergency is a humanitarian crisis. We have tenants who are waiting for a sheriff or a marshal to knock on their door and remove them from their homes, she said. We have tenants who are going to be sleeping in cars or on the street. Congress approved nearly $47 billion to pay landlords as tenants fell behind on rent. As of June 30, only $3 billion o stanley thermos f the total had been distributed.Mayor of Miami Dade County Daniella Levine Cava said: In total, Miami Dade County has spent over 62% of our rental assistance allocation. Other places seem to be getting around the red tape to deliver the aid.In places like South Florida, |
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