Posted on 01/27/2005 10:36:37 PM PST by Timeout
It's worse then that. By law you cannot be asked to produce ID to vote in Wisconsin. ANYONE can go to the polls and vote in your place. One trick is they watch the rolls and see who hasn't voted, then just before the polls close they send in the frauds.
It shouldn't be harder to rent from Blockbuster then it is to vote.
It shouldn't be harder to check out a book at the Milwaukee Public Library (where 2 forms of ID, including a photo ID or an on-the-spot photo, is required to get a library card, and then the card is scanned each time a book is checked out) than it is to vote.
I wouldn't use the editorial page of that rag to line a cat's litter box.
Milwaukee has gone from being a welfare haven to now becoming the vote fraud capital of the US.
And the dim pols and media have become utterly brazen in their political ambition, given the monopolies they've enjoyed over the years. I have to believe things will begin to get better from here on out.
Maybe they should turn voter registration over to the LIBRARY! What excuse would Barrett have then? Let's see, it would go something like this:
"Since our education system has done an even worse job than our elections office, it's widely recognized that inner-city children can't read....OR find the nearest library. Therefore, it would be racist to combine library and voter registration".
LOL!
"Since our education system has done an even worse job than our elections office, it's widely recognized that inner-city children can't read....OR find the nearest library. Therefore, it would be racist to combine library and voter registration".
LOL!
You had to have heard Tom "Milk Carton" Barrett's explanation of why he opposes voter ID (MPS doesn't offer driver's ed at all of its high schools). If not, and you just guessed correctly, it's archived here in RealAudio.
Yes, I heard it. I'm trying to get that live feed now.
Ahhhh. He's talking about the "soft bigotry..." and the race card!
BTW,
I'm watching the Iraq election on TV and I kind of like that ink-stained thumb idea. Maybe in our lifetimes we'll see the U.S. catch up with Iraq on election security.
If it works in Iraq and Afghanistan (where it was tested first), it sure as heck ought to work here.
I had to turn off the radio broadcast.
Will you please update us on what callers were saying?
Is this starting to boil in the public's mind?
Any on-the-scene reports will be appreciated.
Are you saying that Bush selected a sitting WI Supreme Court Justice to go to the Federal Bench?
I strongly suspect that Jeff Wagner (on right after Charlie on WTMJ between 12-2 pm CST) will get it into it some (he's gone as far as I have and called Wisconsin a stolen banana republic), as well as Mark Belling over on WISN-AM between 3-6 pm CST (WISN has an easier Webcast).
3rd runner-up - MPS, where a teacher at the Sign Language school offered her students a pizza party if they wore black on Inauguration Day (no, the teacher wasn't fired, named or as far as anyone can tell, even repirmanded)
2nd runner-up - Milwaukee Election Commission Chair Lisa Artison for all of Milwaukee's election's problems
1st runner-up ("Who does number two work for?") - Gov. Jim Doyle, for being Craps and threatening to toss out thousands of Choice schools
Winner - Sen. Teddy Kennedy, "hero" of Chappaquiddik, for his treasonous speech about Iraq.
Yes, he took a conservative supreme court justice from the WI state supreme court only to have the replacement be appointed by a democrat.
You know what the real irony here is? If Bush hadn't taken tommy thompson for the HHS position, he would have still been governor and would have signed the voter ID act that was passed by the republican legislature but vetoed by the dem governor.
Brilliant strategery on Bush's part.
Missouri doesn't have any ID requirments other than the card that they send you. I have sent letters to my reps asking that someone introduce a bill which would require ID to vote.
close but not enough.
The really sad part is the republicans gained control of both houses in the 2002 election - the same election that saw the republicans lose control of the governorship because the acting governor was a really poor candidate.
The headlines that people have used aren't as effective as they could be....this headline and the paper headline refer to the 1,200 voter cards not accurately approved.
The headline should be "Milwaukee definitively counts 7,000 more votes than people who were registered"
That is a STUNNING revelation. What it means is that poll workers were tossing out extra ballots to all sorts of people, and those people were voting "Kerry", sticking it in the machine and heading for the hills.....these ballots were then counted....the ballot box got stuffed.
In Wisconsin, we need to compare:
A)Precinct by precinct how many ballot votes were counted, versus how many people the poll workers checked in that day....see if we can find out if a few certain precincts had big discrepancies.
B)Let's take this investigation to the UW Madison Campus and determine how many students voted and then compare it to see if they also voted in their home towns. No one is checking this part of the equation out.
Bush won Wisconsin....I'm convinced of it.
If anyone in Wisconsin is in...Mark Belling is going to town on this right now on his show -4pm Central Friday....
Says that a few corrupt poll workers stuffed the ballot box at the end of the day with extra ballots.
Still going, so tune in if you can.
http://www.newstalk1130.com/streaming.html
The mods have a cow when we change the headline used by the presstitutes (even when it's warranted). IMHO, if you read the entire article, the headline should be "11,000+ votes illegitimately cast in Milwaukee"
Thanks for the explanation on the headline.....
The whole Journal investigation is great, but they have to date been focusing on the flawed registration cards....that situation is a mess, but the real bombshell is that 7,000 more votes were tallied than people who were registered to vote in the City for the November 2nd election.
That's a simple concept that everyone understands and we don't need any BS'ing about the "registration cards" The registration card issue is very important, but should get second billing.
The fascinating thing about this is that not only does this prove the need for Photo ID, but also for dumping the same day registration option.
I was reading the Sentinel this morning and noticed that "Nov. Election" button in the sidebar. I clicked on it and found an interesting article from Thursday, Nov. 4th
---two days after the election.
State workers helped in race to add voters to city rolls
I'll summarize it.
On the afternoon before the election, Gov. Doyle says he "learned of the large quantity of voter registration forms still waiting to be processed" in Milwaukee. Mayor Barrett was rounding up volunteers to help. Barrett and Doyle were co-chairs of Kerry's campaign. On Monday Barrett aparently had told the Sentinel that "more than 1,000 registrations" were involved. Ultimately [meaning Thursday?], he "put the figure at 15,000 or 20,000". [They were changing their stories way back then!]
Lisa Artison had no clue how many registrations there were "because they weren't counted". "We don't count them on a day-to-day basis," she said. "Certainly Monday night wasn't the night to count them." [Why not?!] Artison was appointed as elections supervisor last summer after working on the mayor's campaign.
WHAT DID THESE VOLUNTEERS DO?
"Stacks of the unrecorded registrations were divvied up and taken to several city offices, where the volunteers borrowed city computers to use a Web site to determine which ward the new voters should be assigned to". Cards were then divided into stacks by ward to be sent to the polling stations. Artison said she wasn't sure how late the operation went. She went home at 1:30 or 2 a.m. while the volunteers were still at it. The governor's admin secretary, said the state volunteers who helped "were up all night" processing the registrations. The article doesn't mention whether any regular election office workers stayed that night.
WHO WERE THESE VOLUNTEERS?
1) "...about a dozen state employees, some based in Madison and others in Milwaukee...". They were "volunteers and were on their own time".
2) Mayor Barrett worked on the registrations that night. So did his sister and his nephew. And some of his "friends".
3) And "...members of the local painters union..."!
4) I guess we can assume that Republicans were not asked to provide volunteers.
WHAT's WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
Here we had an elections supervisor allowing unsupervised politically-connected volunteers to have access to the voter data base THE NIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION. She even left at 2am and let them continue working. She had no idea how many cards there were to begin with. So there would be no way for her to know if someone "ultimately" added cards to the stack. And we don't even know what part of the system these people had access to....could they tamper with VOTES, not just voters?
WERE THERE ACTUALLY 85,000 SAME DAY REGISTRANTS?
Did that amazingly high number of new registrants really show up on election day? How do we know they weren't "manufactured" in the bowels of city hall the night before?
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This needs to be brought to the attention of the new federal task force. I've sent it to a couple of bloggers. The FBI needs to look closely at time stamps on everything that was put in the system that night. And they need to look at those 15-20,000 cards to see if they have recurring handwriting on them. I've always thought that high number of same-day registrants was suspicious. I'm beginning to wonder now whether many of them ever existed at all.
If nothing else Artison should be fired immediately. At BEST she supposedly allowed up to 20,000 registrations to pile up and go unrecorded. At WORST she gave partisans unsupervised access to official voter records on the eve of a very closely contested election...and she didn't even stay to watch what was going on!
(I'm cross-posting this on the other thread, so some of you may get multiple pings.)
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