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And here is the JS's editorial, really no more than "willful ignorance".

WIDEN ELECTION DAY PROBE

Go read it if you want to see a perfect example of anti-GOP bias.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Bookmarked, with my thanks.

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I sent the reporter an email:

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I wish you had challenged the governor a little more on his response to your inquiry about voter I.D. Here's that portion of your article:

Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, who opposes a photo ID requirement, said Tuesday he believes most of the issues raised could be traced back to processing problems, not fraud.

"I think we have a pretty good system," Doyle said. "If you register at the polls, you have to show appropriate identification to show that you are who you claim to be and that you reside at that location."

That really isn't a full answer. According to the City of Milwaukee website (below), there is no requirement to show I.D. for those who register every day of the year, other than election day.

Interestingly, here are the requirements to get a library card at the Milwaukee Public Library (link below):

Adults must provide two forms of identification showing name and current address within Milwaukee County. (Acceptable forms of identification are a driver's license, a current utility bill, or mail postmarked within the last 30 days.)

The next time you call the governor for comment, would you please press him to be more specific about system-wide voter I.D. Perhaps he sees gettting a library card as a hardship? The legislature should require that I.D. be shown at registration and at voting time. If the governor is going to oppose it , then let him do so honestly and openly rather than with "artful" statements.

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Milwaukee Elections Office: http://www.milwaukee.gov/display/router.asp?docid=854

Milwaukee Public Library:
http://www.mpl.org/File/libcard_about.htm#how

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I don't even live in Wisconsin and this is really pi**ing me off.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Oh.

And I notice that, to a democrat voting official, outright fraud in a close election is called a "glitch", but NOT finding any fraud AT ALL is "disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of black voters" and is promoted at every speech and "hate-the-white-republicans" interview they can find.

[steveegg]

Go read it if you want to see a perfect example of anti-GOP bias.

I'd rather not break out the catapults this early in the morning. I will say to Lisa Artison, "The GOP told you so."