Vote Yes! for Fair Maps

Why vote yes for Fair Maps?  Currently, Wisconsin’s congressional maps are drawn to favor a particular group, a practice called gerrymandering.  Voting for Fair Maps would be your way of telling our legislature that you want them to change how our maps are drawn and by whom.  You want them drawn by a nonpartisan committee without using political or partisan data.  

Fairness is an American value. It is so important we go to war to demand fairness. The Revolutionary War and the Civil War were about fairness. Constitutional amendments and laws have also been about fairness. Women struggled until 1921 against the unfairness of being denied the vote. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed because people of color were denied the right to vote until they demanded fairness..

When asked Wisconsinites want fairness too.  According to a survey from Lake Research Partners and WPA Intelligence in September 2017, it found that in Wisconsin  75% of Democrats, 81% of independents, and 61% of Republicans agree that “we lose the guaranteed freedom to choose our own leaders when electoral maps are drawn to favor one political party.”    

As Wisconsinites we are not alone in our desire for Fair Maps.  Iowa has used a fair maps system since 1980. Their maps have been drawn by a nonpartisan committee using specific rules that prevent them from drawing maps that give advantage to any group.