{"id":13143,"date":"2016-07-12T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/democracy-is-failing-when-voters-dont-have-real-choices\/"},"modified":"2016-07-12T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T14:01:00","slug":"la-democracia-esta-fallando-cuando-los-votantes-no-tienen-opciones-reales","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articles\/democracy-is-failing-when-voters-dont-have-real-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"La democracia est\u00e1 fallando cuando los votantes no tienen opciones reales"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13143","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"More than one-third of all Wisconsinites will have no choice whatsoever when they vote for their state representative in November","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7874}"],"related_issues":[103,169,2066],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

Originally posted by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal<\/a><\/em><\/p>

Hace unas semanas, los candidatos a cargos legislativos estatales presentaron sus documentos de nominaci\u00f3n y las firmas necesarias para las pr\u00f3ximas elecciones primarias de agosto y generales de noviembre aqu\u00ed en Wisconsin. Lo que resulta sorprendente es la cantidad de elecciones para la Asamblea y el Senado que no ofrecer\u00e1n una verdadera elecci\u00f3n de candidatos a los ciudadanos de Wisconsin que viven en esos distritos.<\/p>


Hay 99 esca\u00f1os en la Asamblea de Wisconsin. Tras la presentaci\u00f3n de candidaturas el 1 de junio, m\u00e1s de un tercio de los habitantes de Wisconsin no tendr\u00e1n opci\u00f3n alguna al votar por su representante estatal en noviembre. Diecisiete candidatos republicanos y 17 dem\u00f3cratas (34 en total) no se enfrentan a ning\u00fan oponente. Y en otras seis elecciones a la Asamblea, los titulares o candidatos de un partido pol\u00edtico importante se enfrentar\u00e1n \u00fanicamente a un oponente de un tercer partido. En el Senado, siete de las 16 contiendas de este a\u00f1o tendr\u00e1n un solo candidato que se presentar\u00e1 a las elecciones o a la reelecci\u00f3n este oto\u00f1o. Sin opci\u00f3n para los votantes de esos distritos.<\/p>


Adem\u00e1s, s\u00f3lo 10 de los 99 distritos de la Asamblea de Wisconsin pueden considerarse remotamente competitivos entre republicanos y dem\u00f3cratas y s\u00f3lo dos de los 16 distritos del Senado que tienen elecciones en 2016 caen en la categor\u00eda competitiva.<\/p>


 How did our state, once described as the nation's foremost laboratory for democracy, become, instead, one of the nation's most prominent examples of how elections are rigged? The 2011 redistricting process here is considered to be one the most extreme examples of hyperpartisan gerrymandering in American history and the worst ever, in Wisconsin. It was secretive, expensive to taxpayers and reduced by more than 100% the number of state legislative districts where voters have a genuine choice in general elections. That process also may have been unconstitutional, and a three-judge federal court panel may decide very soon to send a case to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the 2011 Wisconsin gerrymander.<\/p>


Elected representatives are less responsive to their constituents when they have no fear of being defeated in elections. And unfair voting maps cause a more partisan and polarized Legislature where there is little meeting of minds. Bipartisan compromise to benefit citizens, rather than politicians, just doesn't happen.<\/p>


In Wisconsin, elected representatives choose who their constituents will be through gerrymandering. In a healthy democracy, constituents are supposed to choose their elected representatives. It doesn't have to be this way during the upcoming redistricting process in 2021. In Iowa, a non-partisan state agency redraws legislative and congressional district lines every 10 years following the decennial census, not partisan politicians. The results have been astonishing.<\/p>


En Iowa, las elecciones son m\u00e1s competitivas, la Legislatura responde mejor a sus ciudadanos, la confianza en las elecciones y el gobierno estatal es mayor, y los ciudadanos tienen opciones reales en las urnas. Podr\u00edamos tener y necesitamos eso en Wisconsin. Exija que los candidatos a la Legislatura de Wisconsin apoyen mapas electorales justos. Como lo ha hecho Iowa. La vida misma de la democracia depende de ello.<\/p>


Jay Heck es el director ejecutivo de Common Cause en Wisconsin, Matt Rothschild es el director ejecutivo de la Campa\u00f1a por la Democracia en Wisconsin y Dana Schultz es la directora ejecutiva de Wisconsin Voices. Las tres organizaciones forman parte de la Coalici\u00f3n Nuestra Democracia 2020.<\/em><\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"\nDemocracy is failing when voters don’t have real choices - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articulos-2\/la-democracia-esta-fallando-cuando-los-votantes-no-tienen-opciones-reales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Democracy is failing when voters don’t have real choices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articulos-2\/la-democracia-esta-fallando-cuando-los-votantes-no-tienen-opciones-reales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/democracy-is-failing-when-voters-dont-have-real-choices\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/democracy-is-failing-when-voters-dont-have-real-choices\/\",\"name\":\"Democracy is failing when voters don’t have real choices - 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