Vote NO on 4 Year Terms

A measure on the ballot this april 5, 2005 is a proposed amendment to the State Constitution which lengthens the terms of county partisan offices to 4 years. Partisan county offices are: Coroner, DA, Treasurer, County Clerk and Registrar of Deeds, etc.

The first question is why are these partisan offices? But, I will let that pass.

I see no reason why "Let 'em Go" Mike, the District Attorney of Milwaukee County cannot stand for an uncontested election every 2 years instead of every 4 years. The more often these people stand for uncontested elections the better. There is a small chance on any given election that the person will have an opponent. This means the mean time between contested elections is governed by Poisson's Distribution. If the average is 1 election in 20 is contested then there is a 50%-50% shot that 13 elections must pass before there is at least 1 contested election. For 2 year terms this means 26 years between contested elections. For 4 year terms this means 52 years between contested elections.

I think 26 years between contested (not losing, just contested) races is more than enough.

Vote NO on 4 year terms on April 5, 2005.