Posted on 10/28/2016 6:52:28 AM PDT by Sopater
Wisconsin Democratic members of congress asked the U.S. Justice Department to oversee Wisconsin's monitoring of the election due to concerns with the new voter ID law, including Representative Ron Kind who was in Eau Claire Thursday.
Kind told News 18 he wanted to send the letter to the U.S. Justice Department because Donald Trump and other Republican leaders are telling people to become poll watchers this election year. Kind said Wisconsin has no voter fraud issues, and he wanted to make sure everyone who can go out and vote has the opportunity to do so.
"We don't want to see harassment at the booth or at the polling station," Kind said. "There has been a history in some areas of the country of that taking place, and now with his call to encourage supporters to get out there and do their own poll monitoring, I think creates a very contentious, and a very intimidating situation."
The letter was also signed by Senator Tammy Baldwin and Representatives Gwen Moore and Mark Pocan.
I have an Asian friend with whom I occasionally talk politics.
He brought up the point about requiring an ID to help prevent voter fraud. Now this guy is pretty much a political neophyte, so I told him that conservatives have been trying to require ID to vote but they have getting push-back from both the dems & the courts.
He was flabbergasted - why would they be against this? I told him (tongue-in-cheek), that was because he was thinking like a racist - the dems and their judicial activist judges agree that ID = suppression and those in favor are racists.
The lights are coming on; the more we talk the more he expresses an understanding of how the dems really think, and he understands now “the bigotry of low expectations”...
They’re going nuts:
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.