10,000 same-day registrations in Milwaukee illegible

Mark Belling - WISN AM ^

[steveegg]

Assemblyman Jeff Stone (R-Greenfield) has been pestering the Milwaukee Election Commission to report how many people registered at the polls on November 2. Initially, they reported to him on Wednesday that about 8,000 people registered at the polls that day, out of about 255,000 votes cast, about 380,000 voters registered as of the September election (and an estimated 20,000-30,000 registrants between that point and the cutoff point for preregistration), and 565,000 residents (including about 430,000 adults) in the city. Now, they report a few VERY disturbing things:

• 84,000 people registered at the polls on November 2.
• 10,000 people, despite filling out illegible registration cards, were given ballots.
• The other 74,000 registrations have yet to be verified through mailing a confirmation to the address listed.

A couple of things to point out. First, President Bush lost the state by about 12,000 votes. Second, there are now more registered voters in Milwaukee than there are adults in Milwaukee.

[j_tull]

Where's Jesse Jackson ?, Ummm... Olympia, Washington? Nope, not there either.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Sickening.

[Ben Hecks]

"What about military ballots? Do we ban military ballots unless we send notaries to the troops? Or are there notaries in a war zone?"

A commissioned officer can notarize documents - usually the individual's platoon leader or company commander.

[j_tull]

And what is your problem with students voting where they go to college? I lived in a college town where the homeowners ("permanent residents") screwed over students for a long time, until the students were finally allowed to vote there. You don't support taxation without representation, do you?

Let's see. Are you suggesting that not allowing non-tax paying, out-of-town college students the right to vote for the imposition of new taxes on the locals is some form of "Taxation without representation?" Where is this college? If its grads produce this kind of logic, I need to know where it is before my child gets to college selection age.

[republicandiva]

$25.00 an hour...lol - you're funny!

[Moorings]

I believe we would have won WI. There is a lot of funny business going on in the Milwaukee and Madison areas it seems.

[satchmodog9]

Next time I vote I bring a digital camera with me.

[stboz]

...the will of the people will never be realized.

Yes, it will. YOU are NOT the PEOPLE. YOU are a SERVANT of the PEOPLE. (In other words, you have a job and pay taxes for the privelege of working your a$$ off.)

It is the WILL of the PEOPLE that it will always be thus.

[Quix]

Lord God, may these destructive evil idiots reap what they have sown ASAP. Make a public spectacle of their evil, Oh, Lord, IN Jesus' Name.

[purpleland]

Milwaukee initiating Lani Gueniere's (sp) version of *1984* new math: 2+2=5: (!!!)

A very short (and incomplete) list of other Democrat dirty tricks in Wisconsin this past election -
Various Democrat-linked outfits won the right to be deputized as registars, giving them the right to say that a "new voter's identification" meets the requirements of the law.
The city of Milwaukee requested and later obtained from the county (who provides the ballots for elections) 918,000 ballots for this election (despite the numbers above). Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker did, however, obtain a concession that the unused ballots would be returned to the county instead of being destroyed by the city. It turns out that less than 300,000 ballots, including spoils, were used.
Tires on vehicles rented by the Republican Party for transportation of voters were slashed by, among others, the adult son of newly-elected Congresswoman Gwendoline Moore (D-Milwaukee). The criminal investigation is being slow-dragged to obliviion by Milwaukee District Attorney E. Michael McCann (D-Milwaukee).
The same Mark Belling cited up above was verbally intimidated at his polling place in the city of Milwaukee on November 2.
The Milwaukee Election Commission had not delivered a single absentee ballot to polling places by 6 pm, a mere 2 hours before the polls close. Despite an effort by the Milwaukee Police and Fire Departments, several hundred ballots were not delivered in time to be counted. They were, however, later counted after a ruling by the State Elections Board

[j_tull]

The college students all lived in rental properties ...Renters pay no property taxes. Well, not directly.
The homeowners voted an 18-mill property tax on rental properties which was dedicated to the local school district. Taxpayers legally redistributing their burden to other taxpayers whose primary income is collecting rent from non-taxpayers. Not nice, but nothing new.
rules making it nearly impossible for a landlord to buy the homes of departing homeowners and convent them to rentals.
I'm sure it was sold as some kind of "anti slumlord initiative."

< removing tongue from cheek > OK, your points are not nearly as heinous as they first appeared, but I'm not convinced that giving part time residents the right to impose their will on the locals rises to the level of one of the American Revolution's clarion calls.

[Allosaurs_r_us]

If YOU or any other Republican think you can do it for less ;posted by ftlpdx

...or any other REPUBLICAN?...I am beginning to smell something funny going on here, how about you, repub? Starting to get a whiff of ozone I think.

[Nataku X]

You know why that, or any kind of voter identification system, will never be implemented or enforced.

[hoosiermama]

Did you see this?

[republicandiva]

Indeed, if this fraud is so blatant and if it overturned the will of the (legal) voters, you have a moral obligation to do so. You continue to crack me up!

[TheEaglehasLanded]

Sounds like Seattle, King Co. Washington State, Philadelphia, etc. More votes than voters

[spodefly]

I wonder what the Congressional Black Caucus will have to say (demagogue) about this.

Oh yea. Nothing.