Posted on 01/27/2005 10:36:37 PM PST by Timeout
CITY OK'd 1,305 FLAWED VOTER CARDS
People were allowed to cast ballots, despite filling out same-day registrations with wrong information
By GREG J. BOROWSKI
Milwaukee officials said Thursday that 1,305 same-day voter registration cards from the Nov. 2 election could not be processed, including more than 500 cases where voters listed no address and dozens more where no name was written on the card. [Copy of sample card below]
But the revelation of the actual number of cards that couldn't be processed, far lower than previous estimates of 8,300 or more, raised new concerns, because it leaves a clear gap of more than 7,000 people who voted on Nov. 2 and cannot be accounted for in city records...
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Read the whole thing....this is almost hysterical!
Be sure to check out the "Election Problems" side bar the Sentinel has now created on the right side of the page.
Oh, and there's a weenie editorial, too http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/jan05/296740.asp
(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...
I meant to mention: that person with the incomplete card...he was allowed to vote.
So, how many did Bush lose by in Wisconsin? Beginning to look like he might've carried it, instead. I think the Supreme Court of Wisconsin should strike down that law allowing same day voter registration/voting until the legislature can make a more sensible one.
The supreme court can't just strike down laws it doesn't like willy nilly. There has to be a suit brought, and a constitutional reason to strike it down.
Besides, the decision would likely tilt towards the libs, since bush, in another billiant appointment, picked a conservative judge for the federal bench and shifted the WI state supreme court balance towards the liberals.
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It all depends on how the people respond to all these revelations. There's been nothing in the paper about it.
The guv is still saying he'd veto voter i.d. It's going to take some pretty bad revelations to shake the Dem machine enough for them to tighten up the system.
Are you from Milwaukee?
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I found a Wisconsin blogger who is covering this story:
The American Mind
http://www.theamericanmind.com/
The American Mind
http://www.theamericanmind.com/
Once Owen at Boots and Sabers decompresses, he'll likely also be all over this. He filed an Open Records request for just those records, but hadn't heard back from the Milwaukee Election Commission. There's a few other local blogs on various aspects of how the DemonRATs stole Wisconsin (search the Badger Blog Alliance).
That gap of about 8,300 appeared to represent the number of same-day registration cards that could not be processed. The number originally had been put at more than 10,000, based on estimates the city sent to the state.A few comments:If only about 1,300 cards could not be processed, that still leaves a gap of about 7,000.
In reality, though, the gap is larger. The newspaper has found hundreds of cases where the same person is listed as voting twice, something officials attribute to a computer "glitch" when their information was entered into the city's computer system.
1,300 votes cast by those submitting incomplete registration cards on election day + 2,800 votes cast by those submitting registration cards on election day that proved to be from illegitimate addresses + 7,000 votes cast by those who are not recorded at all in the system + 300 votes cast by those already on the rolls at illegitimate addresses ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11,400 votes cast illegitimately in the city of Milwaukee
President Bush lost Wisconsin by 11,384 votes.
I posted a comment on The American Mind blog suggesting a couple of possible solutions to the same day registration problem:
1) Eliminate same-days. Set registration deadline prior to election day, giving enough time for all late-arriving cards to be entered AND confirmed by return verification card. (also: eliminate the "voter vouching" option.)I'm only addressing ONE of the myriad of irreguarities (i.e. the "voter voucher" system is atrocious). But these would appear to be such common sense improvements that even the intransigent governor would have to be embarassed to veto one or both.
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2) Same day registrant's ballots should be treated the same as provisionals. Those ballots should not be counted until checked by the elections office AND verification cards have been sent AND returned. Given that delay, this might cut down on that high number of same day registrants.
BTW...to those who live in Wisconsin.
Here in Alabama we tried for years to get an i.d. requirement in place. The Dems fought it and kept vetoing it. Finally, 2 years ago, they couldn't stand the pressure anymore. It passed and we now have to show i.d. at registration AND at the polling place.
So, hang in there. Public pressure can make this happen!
As for getting anything done, I'm ready to suggest that it become a constitutional amendment (then it won't need 2/3rds to override a Diamond Jim veto, but that takes 2 separate biannual legislative sessions and a referrendum).
"More rotten cheese and skunky beer" ping
Did you read the editorial in the JS?
Man, are their editorials written by the president of the Wisconsin Democratic Party? It's amazing to watch them whipsawing their opinion to fit the new facts being revealed in their own paper.
BTTT!!!!!!
Not closely (I didn't feel like losing my breakfast, which invariably happens if I do anything besides glance at any particular editorial.
Man, are their editorials written by the president of the Wisconsin Democratic Party? It's amazing to watch them whipsawing their opinion to fit the new facts being revealed in their own paper.
The editorial page editor is one O. Ricardo Pimentel, a "Boosh lied, Iraqis died" flavor of Bush-hater from Arizona. What surprises me is that they actually acknowledged some of those facts.
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