GMGP members, Curt Bolton and Rita Maniotis as well as Four Lakes Greens
member, Susan De Vos attended the Fusion Voting Conference sponsored by the UW Madison Law School in Madison on Friday, November 14th. Peter LaVenia, Co-chair of the New York Green Party was the only participant who spoke about the negative consequences for small parties in states like New York and Connecticut, the only two states which have fusion voting. United Wisconsin is an organization that has filed suit to reinstitute fusion voting in Wisconsin. Fusion voting has been banned in Wisconsin since 1897.
Fusion voting allows a candidate to appear on more than one party ballot line.