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10,000 same-day registrations in Milwaukee illegible
Mark Belling - WISN AM ^

Posted on 01/14/2005 3:01:13 PM PST by steveegg

Edited on 01/14/2005 3:19:12 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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:

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Washington; US: Wisconsin
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel got around to publishing an apologist piece this morning (below the fold of the Metro section in the print edition, and buried in the online edition).
141 posted on 01/15/2005 3:54:32 AM PST by steveegg (The secret goal of lieberals - to ensure that no future generation can possibly equal theirs.)
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To: DBeers
The constitution puts 'voting' in the states hand. Voting is not a federal issue. Fix your state.

It also guarantees each state a republican form of government. A rather strong case can be made that, with the active refusal of the Wisconsin Democratic Party (through Governor Jim Doyle's vetoes of measures to fix the voting system and the Democrat-controlled prosecutorial system's refusals to enforce what few laws attempt to guarantee the sanctity of said system), Wisconsin no longer enjoys a republican form of government.

142 posted on 01/15/2005 5:06:49 AM PST by steveegg (The secret goal of lieberals - to ensure that no future generation can possibly equal theirs.)
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To: WVNan
Legal...sure if you could actually trust the politicians in charge.

What we need to do is get this info out to the people and let them understand how people are corrupting the voting in WI.

Public pressure will bring more results than legal.
143 posted on 01/15/2005 5:16:42 AM PST by wallcrawlr (www.bionicear.com)
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To: ftlpdx
The poor people are more likely to have their welfare benefits card with them. Many(most?all?) states issue benefits(handouts?) through electronic debit style cards in an attempt to stop recipients from spending the funds for drugs and booze.

It burns me to see a woman and six kids(no father in evidence) pushing a grocery cart loaded with high-priced items all being paid for with my taxes! SELDOM do thes people buy the generic,or the inexpensive ingredients like flour,oatmeal,etc. Rent subsidies simply benefit landlords ,anyway.

But the Democrats can count on these people to vote for more of the same so the productive members of society need to at least make sure no one votes more than once !

144 posted on 01/15/2005 5:17:04 AM PST by hoosierham
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To: steveegg

My outrage is at the GOP for not making a stink over this and prosecuting some of the organizers of election fraud. With some official protest, Wisconsin would be RED and not Blue.


145 posted on 01/15/2005 5:20:13 AM PST by Shqipo (What's Christmas about? Charlie Brown, Linus, and Snoopy have it down.)
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To: Shqipo
My outrage is at the GOP for not making a stink over this and prosecuting some of the organizers of election fraud. With some official protest, Wisconsin would be RED and not Blue.

Not much prosecuting to be done when the DA in Milwaukee County is a DemonRAT, the DA in the capital county of Dane is a DemonRAT, and the Attorney General is a DemonRAT. You also didn't pay much attention to Wisconsin news last year. The Pubbies passed a voter ID requirement, only to have it vetoed by the DemonRAT governor (not enough Pubbies to override). They pressed to have over 5,000 non-existent addresses in Milwaukee removed from the rolls (the Milwaukee Election Commission refused to remove even one). Other than Milwaukee talk radio, the media is at best disinterested in the entire issue.

146 posted on 01/15/2005 5:33:35 AM PST by steveegg (The secret goal of lieberals - to ensure that no future generation can possibly equal theirs.)
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To: mhking

Just in case you didn't see this just yet....


147 posted on 01/15/2005 5:41:48 AM PST by steveegg (The secret goal of lieberals - to ensure that no future generation can possibly equal theirs.)
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To: steveegg

I had Wisconsin and Pennsylvania particularly in mind for my tagline.


148 posted on 01/15/2005 5:59:53 AM PST by T'wit (I was so moved by Stephanie Tubbs Jones's call for honest voting, I demand recounts in blue states.)
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To: longtermmemmory

//In 2006 all states will be FINALLY required to have CENTRALIZED voter registration databases.//

do you have a source for this info?


149 posted on 01/15/2005 6:00:38 AM PST by libsRlosers (We will always remember. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free - Ronald Reagan)
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To: libsRlosers

Before even reading the thread...


Wisconsin:
Voter Registration Right At The Polls,
And withing easy driving distance of Chicago.


Voter Fraud?
Obviously.


150 posted on 01/15/2005 6:03:09 AM PST by 9999lakes
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To: steveegg

Massive voter fraud and they STILL lost the election! Gotta love it.

But we better be a little more on the ball next time or Hillary will be President.


151 posted on 01/15/2005 6:03:57 AM PST by SerpentDove
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To: 9999lakes

AFTER reading the thread...


I want elections so squeeky clean that even the Appearance of Impropriety sends people to jail.

I want someone to go to Jail for Voter Fraud!
This stuff undermines democratic government.


152 posted on 01/15/2005 6:10:42 AM PST by 9999lakes
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To: southernnorthcarolina
The potential for abuse is obvious: I could pick a name out of the phone book, remember the address, and vote in a precinct on the other side of the county -- and then go to my precinct, and cast a "legitimate" vote.

Which is the real reason behind Dem complaints about "long lines": it reduced the number of places fraudulent "multiple voters" could cast ballots at

153 posted on 01/15/2005 6:33:45 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (We are going to fight until hell freezes over and then we are going to fight on the ice)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
If your stat about the number of registered voters is true, it's something we need to use to effect a change! When do we get the names so that they can be checked against the rolls of the dead?

This sounds like a case for the ACLU

154 posted on 01/15/2005 6:47:21 AM PST by oldbrowser (You lost the election...........get over it)
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To: longtermmemmory
No more county by country registration. (no more busses from country a to county b.)

You will still have busses from A to B. All you need is an insider to compile precinct-by-precinct lists of people who haven't voted in a couple of years (or who you otherwise verify as no longer living there) and bus people who say "I'm Joe Schmoe" at A, and "I'm Sam Smith" at B

155 posted on 01/15/2005 6:58:19 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (We are going to fight until hell freezes over and then we are going to fight on the ice)
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To: hoosierham
It burns me to see a woman and six kids(no father in evidence) pushing a grocery cart loaded with high-priced items all being paid for with my taxes! SELDOM do thes people buy the generic,or the inexpensive ingredients like flour,oatmeal,etc. Rent subsidies simply benefit landlords ,anyway.

And some of it may be them doing grocery shopping for others, letting welfare pay for it, and getting cash from the real recipient.

156 posted on 01/15/2005 7:03:26 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (We are going to fight until hell freezes over and then we are going to fight on the ice)
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To: Mo1
The only good thing that came out of that election mess was that more and more people are paying closer attention and talking about the fraud that has been going on for YEARS *cough LBJ cough*

Let's not forget 1960, when JFK "won" Illinois and I think it was WV this way. His father even liked to joke that he didn't buy one more vote than they needed in Chicago. Chicago is impossibly corrupt.

157 posted on 01/15/2005 7:42:44 AM PST by texasbluebell
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To: steveegg

Lawmaker criticizes voter verification process
Cards could not be sent to addresses of 10,000 who registered at Milwaukee polls on election day
By GREG J. BOROWSKI
gborowski@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Jan. 14, 2005

A Republican lawmaker who advocates a voter ID requirement is criticizing the Milwaukee Election Commission's handling of voters who registered at the polls Nov. 2, saying some 10,000 could not be sent cards to verify their address.
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State Rep. Jeff Stone (R-Greendale) said Friday the number reflects cases where registration cards filled out by voters were illegible or, in some cases, duplicates.

City officials, though, said late Friday there may be other explanations, such as voters who registered at the polls even though they had registered in advance, or filled out cards to update flawed ones they had submitted earlier.

At the center of the issue is a process by which those who register on election day are sent postcards to confirm the address before they are entered onto permanent voting rolls.

By law, Stone said, the process was to begin right after the election, though he says the cards were not sent until Jan. 6. Of the 83,000 or so same-day registrations, a number city officials acknowledge, Stone said he was told only 73,079 cards could be mailed.

That leaves a gap of about 10,000, which he argues is evidence of serious problems.

"The one fail-safe you have on these people is to the addresses on the cards," he said. "We have 10,000 of them that can't be verified."

It is unclear how many of the cards have been returned as undeliverable.

Lisa Artison, executive director of the Election Commission, declined to comment on Stone's claims Friday night, saying she was not in the office and could not respond until Tuesday. City Hall is closed Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Patrick Curley, chief of staff to Mayor Tom Barrett, said the matter will be sorted out but questioned why Stone issued a news release before asking for more information.

Curley took a similar view of a state Republican news release issued earlier in the day that accused the Election Commission of foot-dragging on an open-records request.

"Putting out a press release is easier than sorting it out," Curley said.

Meanwhile, Citizens for Responsible Government said it will call for an independent outside audit of all election functions, said Chris Kliesmet, a leader of the group.

Barrett recently appointed a task force to review election processes.

That group, which is to hold its first business session Friday, has been criticized for being made up of city employees and officials.

Two staffers in the city comptroller's office, independent from the administration, have been added to the panel.

Artison and the Election Commission have faced major criticism for the Nov. 2 election, which featured massive registration drives and a surge in absentee ballot requests and early voting.

Among the problems: up to 20,000 registration cards that were not processed in time; some people who requested absentee ballots did not receive them before the election; and 238 absentee ballots that were not delivered in time to be counted on election day.

At the city's request, the state later allowed those ballots to be counted.

Nevertheless, a review of the election released this week by the Election Protection Coalition, which had monitors at many polling places, declared poll workers "did a remarkable job." It also said that while many procedural problems existed, there was no indication of fraud.


158 posted on 01/15/2005 7:51:50 AM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: GretchenM
This turns my stomach. Why is there never any effort made to challenge this garbage? There were some questionable registrations here in Mich too. And this from Detroit:

Michigan: The Mood (Pollwatcher accounts of vote fraud in Detroit)

159 posted on 01/15/2005 8:27:22 AM PST by ride the whirlwind (It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.)
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To: Indy Pendance
The Election Protection Coalition, Sounds like a Jessie Jackass line.
160 posted on 01/15/2005 8:31:45 AM PST by justrepublican (MoveOn.org "We bought it, we own it, we're going to take it back." Capitalist pigs!)
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