Little Pavel Has A Bratwurst

Illinois Review Blog ^ | September 14, 2010 A.D. | John F. Di Leo

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..."In 2005, Milwaukee had to jettison about 120,000 names from their lists – 120,000 names that had been on the list in 2004. Including a heck of lot of those same day registrations from November. Ya think 120,000 people all moved away in a coupla months’ time? No, a heck of a lot of those were our kind of voters. Ya know, Paully, our favorites: the fictional kind.”

“How do they do it, Pockets? Is it brazen, or do they have some kind of technique?”

Pockets munched on a pretzel and shrugged his shoulders. “From what I hear, they use a little bit of all the usual techniques… bringing up busloads of volunteers from Chicago or elsewhere, giving ‘em each a valid name on the voting rolls, ya know, the New Orleans method. Bringing in campaign workers to a coupla precincts, claiming they live there, and having a colleague vouch for them… having people with two houses – like a regular home and a hunting cabin up north – cast votes at both, the same day… getting college students to vote both at home with their folks and away on campus. You know.”

Pockets signaled for another longneck. “Here’s a fun one, Paully… coupla years ago a fella ran for a state senate seat in Madison, and voted in both Illinois and Wisconsin the same day! The candidate himself! You won’t catch any of our boys doin’ anything that dumb. He owned property in both states, so he figured, why not?! The Republicans caught him at it while doing normal opposition research for the fall campaign! Isn’t that a beauty?”

Pavel brought him a fresh beer, and asked “With all that going on in Wisconsin, do the Republicans do anything to fight back?” ...

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This belongs in Bloggers not in News forum and had to be moved.

We are going to have to replace the url shortening link http://lnkd.in/eQ7Tps you used with the complete link to your blog on typepad. Always use the complete link.

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