Posted on 06/07/2015 1:09:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
In the 2012 general election, Wisconsin had the second-highest voter-turnout rate in the nation with 73 percent of the population participating. The state trailed just behind Minnesota, which had a 76 percent turnout rate. Wisconsin also ranked second in the nation during the 2008 general election.
Potential Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker knocked Hillary Clinton for being "firmly out of touch" on the issue of voting rights just days after the former secretary of state announced her proposals championing minority access to voting.
"In our state we have a photo ID requirement that would make it easy to vote and hard to cheat," Walker told reporters Saturday at Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst's Roast and Ride event. "And I think that's a good example where her statements of late show that she's firmly out of touch with I think where mainstream America is."
When asked by a reporter about universal voter registration for the state of Wisconsin, Walker shrugged and shook his head, pointing instead to Wisconsin's turnout records.
"From our standpoint, we think we've got one of the most effective systems right now where we have one of the highest levels of voter participation," Walker said. "We've got a pretty good system."...
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...In a speech Thursday calling on Congress to restore portions of the Voting Rights Act, Clinton singled out the Wisconsin governor for cutting back early voting and signing legislation that would make it more difficult for college students to vote....
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Scott Walker's New Restrictive Voting Laws Challenged By Top Clinton Lawyer "....Marc Elias, an election law expert who is also general counsel to the Clinton campaign, filed the Wisconsin lawsuit. He filed a separate challenge last month to voting restrictions passed in Ohio under Republican Gov. John Kasich...."
Did Hillary Clinton's lawyer inadvertently expose her electoral nightmares? ".......In a statement distributed by his political group, Walker responded to Clinton's speech by arguing, "Hillary Clinton's extreme views are far outside the mainstream."
While Spakovsky says the liberal judges in Wisconsin means the lawsuit might have a chance in that state, the legal case itself is weak in his view. For example, he said Clinton lawyer's complaint committed a sanction-worthy legal error by seeking to adjudicate Wisconsin's voter ID law all over again.
"This complaint is written like an extended press release, not a lawsuit," he said. "Look, Marc Elias, I don't agree with him on a lot of policy issues, but I like the guy and I am just shocked that he would do something that is such a fundamental legal error."
Spakovsky also took issue with the lawsuit's opposition to a rule that asked colleges who provided "dorm lists" for voter registration purposes to verify the citizenship status of the students seeking to vote.
"The state said OK, when the college administrators provide that dorm list they have to certify that those students are U.S. citizens, and yet that somehow supposedly violates federal law," Spakovsky said. "Well that's a ridiculous claim because it's illegal for someone who's not a U.S. citizen to register or vote and all Wisconsin is doing is asking the university who knows whether their students are citizens are not through the application process to certify that the person is in fact a student.".....
Sept 22, 2014: UW-Madison begins issuing voter ID to students "University of Wisconsin-Madison students will be able to get a free voter ID card right on campus beginning today.
The university is making the cards available following the Sept. 12 decision by the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that lifted the stay on Wisconsin's voter ID law. The state Government Accountability Board has indicated the requirement will be in place for the Nov. 4 election.
Students are not required to obtain this new card and may use another form of photo identification approved for voting purposes. For example, students who are Wisconsin residents don't need a voter ID if they have a state-issued driver's license or ID card, a U.S. passport or military ID. Visit the Government Accountability Board website for more information on other approved forms of identification.
Students from out of state who have lived in Wisconsin for at least four weeks before the Nov. 4 elections are eligible to vote but must meet a higher standard than in previous elections. Students who use a university-issued voter ID to vote must also provide an enrollment verification form. The form can be either printed out or shown to an election official on a mobile device....."
Wisconsin DMV: Eligibility requirements:
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1. ID Card applicants must be U.S. Citizens, at least 17 years of age, and indicate that the ID card is required free of charge for the purposes of voting; and
2. ID Card applicants must claim that documents required to prove U.S. Citizenship, name and date of birth and/or legal name change are unavailable and require a fee to a government agency to obtain.
Applicants using this process to obtain an ID must:
Apply at a DMV Service Center
Complete a Wisconsin Identification Card Application. Social Security number must be included on this application
Complete a Document Verification Process (DMV Administrator Petition) form
Present documents to prove: Identity
Wisconsin residency (where you live in Wisconsin)
The information provided on this form is used to communicate with state and federal partners to verify unavailable documentation. Once verification is received, the ID card will be processed and mailed to the applicant’s address."
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About the only thing Hillary’s been in touch with lately is Huma.
the voting rights legislation that walker has passed will be instrumental in our win in 2016.
WI only went to kerry by a few thousand votes in milwaukee in 2004. the GOP can win WI in 2016
There is election fraud - if there wasn’t the Democratic Party and their handmaidens in the MSM wouldn’t be race baiting, youth baiting and nationality baiting with their whines about there being no election fraud to fix - they’d encourage an accurate, legal vote count.
It ain't gonna work Hillary! The Blacks don't care about a wrinkled up old White woman. Her only chance to excite the Blacks is if she were to stuff a pillow down the back of her pants suit. Make’em think she's got some junk in the trunk.
indeed. the hidden story on the election story of 2000 was that WI was stolen. milwaukee is a hotbed of fraud.
GWB lost by less that the fraudulent votes.
You can always tell what’s NOT good for America by whatever it is the democrats are promoting.
LOL!
Hillary is just stirring up the useful idiots.
Of course there was a lot of interest in the union protests, but that doesn't account for the same high numbers in 2008.
Remember the election gal that gave the wrong numbers out (to the AP which then uses them to make early calls)? Her error from looking at a written list v another list had the race going to the Dem judge, so when she reviewed it and the new numbers were sent, all hell broke loose because the Rep judge was ahead and was the eventual winner. Many feel her error stopped rampant fraud because they believed that they had already won, when they were losing.
It would be nice if a candidate would ask the question for once: “Why aren’t the Clintons under investigation? Why aren’t there any indictments?”
It’s truly despicable but that’s the calling card of the Democratic Party.
That’s coming.
"A Democratic legal fight against restrictive voting laws enacted in recent years by Republican-controlled state governments is being largely paid for by a single liberal benefactor: the billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
Mr. Soros, the Hungarian-born investor whose first major involvement in American politics was a voter-mobilization drive in the 2004 presidential race, has yet to commit the many millions of dollars that Hillary Rodham Clinton’s allies hope he and other like-minded billionaires will pour into the “super PAC” directly aiding her campaign.
But it turns out that Mr. Soros has already agreed to put as much as $5 million into the litigation effort, which Democrats hope will erode restrictions on voter access that they say could otherwise prove decisive in a close election.
The lawsuits — which are being led by a lawyer whose clients include Mrs. Clinton’s campaign — are attacking a variety of measures, including voter-identification requirements that Democrats consider onerous, time restrictions imposed on early voting that they say could make it difficult to cast ballots the weekend before Election Day, and rules that could nullify ballots cast in the wrong precinct.
The lawyer, Marc Elias, who specializes in voter-protection issues, was in contact with Mr. Soros in January 2014 when Mr. Elias was exploring a series of federal lawsuits before that year’s midterm election and in advance of the 2016 campaign, according to Mr. Soros’s political adviser, Michael Vachon. (Mr. Elias declined to comment on Friday about the funding of the lawsuits.)
The goal is to try to influence voting rules in states where Republican governors and Republican-led legislatures have enacted election laws since 2010, and to be ready to intervene if additional measures are passed over the next 17 months.................."
WI would have gone for bush in 2000, if not for the fraud in milwaikee
If Donald Trump runs he will definitely say that, without a doubt. I think he’s an egotistical blowhard but at least he isn’t afraid to open his mouth and speak the truth - something ALL Republicans should do. I think he’s really going to run this time, he’s going to announce it on the 16th and he isn’t going to let the Clintons get away with ANYTHING. He will bring up every last “scandal” and shady thing the Clintons have ever been involved with, he will absolutely incinerate her. And if he debates her? Forget it, she would be insane to accept that.
name three REAL accomplishments for ted cruz.
just three.
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