Posted on 01/14/2005 3:01:13 PM PST by steveegg
Edited on 01/14/2005 3:19:12 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
It also guarantees each state a republican form of government. A rather strong case can be made that, with the active refusal of the Wisconsin Democratic Party (through Governor Jim Doyle's vetoes of measures to fix the voting system and the Democrat-controlled prosecutorial system's refusals to enforce what few laws attempt to guarantee the sanctity of said system), Wisconsin no longer enjoys a republican form of government.
It burns me to see a woman and six kids(no father in evidence) pushing a grocery cart loaded with high-priced items all being paid for with my taxes! SELDOM do thes people buy the generic,or the inexpensive ingredients like flour,oatmeal,etc. Rent subsidies simply benefit landlords ,anyway.
But the Democrats can count on these people to vote for more of the same so the productive members of society need to at least make sure no one votes more than once !
My outrage is at the GOP for not making a stink over this and prosecuting some of the organizers of election fraud. With some official protest, Wisconsin would be RED and not Blue.
Not much prosecuting to be done when the DA in Milwaukee County is a DemonRAT, the DA in the capital county of Dane is a DemonRAT, and the Attorney General is a DemonRAT. You also didn't pay much attention to Wisconsin news last year. The Pubbies passed a voter ID requirement, only to have it vetoed by the DemonRAT governor (not enough Pubbies to override). They pressed to have over 5,000 non-existent addresses in Milwaukee removed from the rolls (the Milwaukee Election Commission refused to remove even one). Other than Milwaukee talk radio, the media is at best disinterested in the entire issue.
Just in case you didn't see this just yet....
I had Wisconsin and Pennsylvania particularly in mind for my tagline.
//In 2006 all states will be FINALLY required to have CENTRALIZED voter registration databases.//
do you have a source for this info?
Before even reading the thread...
Wisconsin:
Voter Registration Right At The Polls,
And withing easy driving distance of Chicago.
Voter Fraud?
Obviously.
Massive voter fraud and they STILL lost the election! Gotta love it.
But we better be a little more on the ball next time or Hillary will be President.
AFTER reading the thread...
I want elections so squeeky clean that even the Appearance of Impropriety sends people to jail.
I want someone to go to Jail for Voter Fraud!
This stuff undermines democratic government.
Which is the real reason behind Dem complaints about "long lines": it reduced the number of places fraudulent "multiple voters" could cast ballots at
This sounds like a case for the ACLU
You will still have busses from A to B. All you need is an insider to compile precinct-by-precinct lists of people who haven't voted in a couple of years (or who you otherwise verify as no longer living there) and bus people who say "I'm Joe Schmoe" at A, and "I'm Sam Smith" at B
And some of it may be them doing grocery shopping for others, letting welfare pay for it, and getting cash from the real recipient.
Let's not forget 1960, when JFK "won" Illinois and I think it was WV this way. His father even liked to joke that he didn't buy one more vote than they needed in Chicago. Chicago is impossibly corrupt.
Lawmaker criticizes voter verification process
Cards could not be sent to addresses of 10,000 who registered at Milwaukee polls on election day
By GREG J. BOROWSKI
gborowski@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Jan. 14, 2005
A Republican lawmaker who advocates a voter ID requirement is criticizing the Milwaukee Election Commission's handling of voters who registered at the polls Nov. 2, saying some 10,000 could not be sent cards to verify their address.
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State Rep. Jeff Stone (R-Greendale) said Friday the number reflects cases where registration cards filled out by voters were illegible or, in some cases, duplicates.
City officials, though, said late Friday there may be other explanations, such as voters who registered at the polls even though they had registered in advance, or filled out cards to update flawed ones they had submitted earlier.
At the center of the issue is a process by which those who register on election day are sent postcards to confirm the address before they are entered onto permanent voting rolls.
By law, Stone said, the process was to begin right after the election, though he says the cards were not sent until Jan. 6. Of the 83,000 or so same-day registrations, a number city officials acknowledge, Stone said he was told only 73,079 cards could be mailed.
That leaves a gap of about 10,000, which he argues is evidence of serious problems.
"The one fail-safe you have on these people is to the addresses on the cards," he said. "We have 10,000 of them that can't be verified."
It is unclear how many of the cards have been returned as undeliverable.
Lisa Artison, executive director of the Election Commission, declined to comment on Stone's claims Friday night, saying she was not in the office and could not respond until Tuesday. City Hall is closed Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Patrick Curley, chief of staff to Mayor Tom Barrett, said the matter will be sorted out but questioned why Stone issued a news release before asking for more information.
Curley took a similar view of a state Republican news release issued earlier in the day that accused the Election Commission of foot-dragging on an open-records request.
"Putting out a press release is easier than sorting it out," Curley said.
Meanwhile, Citizens for Responsible Government said it will call for an independent outside audit of all election functions, said Chris Kliesmet, a leader of the group.
Barrett recently appointed a task force to review election processes.
That group, which is to hold its first business session Friday, has been criticized for being made up of city employees and officials.
Two staffers in the city comptroller's office, independent from the administration, have been added to the panel.
Artison and the Election Commission have faced major criticism for the Nov. 2 election, which featured massive registration drives and a surge in absentee ballot requests and early voting.
Among the problems: up to 20,000 registration cards that were not processed in time; some people who requested absentee ballots did not receive them before the election; and 238 absentee ballots that were not delivered in time to be counted on election day.
At the city's request, the state later allowed those ballots to be counted.
Nevertheless, a review of the election released this week by the Election Protection Coalition, which had monitors at many polling places, declared poll workers "did a remarkable job." It also said that while many procedural problems existed, there was no indication of fraud.
Michigan: The Mood (Pollwatcher accounts of vote fraud in Detroit)
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