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Here's a sample of Milwaukee voter registration card. No address... sheesh. I love these libs who climbed all over Enron, yet when they get caught it's all just an innocent human error! We're supposed to sympathize with how overworked they are!

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I meant to mention: that person with the incomplete card...he was allowed to vote.

[Shery]

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.

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[dennisw]

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[steveegg]

Here's an interesting couple of paragraphs from the article:

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.

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.

A few comments:

• Exactly how many people registered at the polls on November 2? The last number I saw was 83,000 (which supports the original contention that 10,000 same-day registrations could not be processed to the point of sending out verification cards.
• Why in the hell were those 1,300 people that the Milwaukee Election Commission admitted turned in the incomplete cards allowed to vote?
• Where did the other 7,000 votes come from? Using the MEC's own numbers, they didn't come from those pre-registered, those who registered at the polls and filled complete registration cards, or those who registered at the polls and filled out incomplete registration cards (which, unless I'm missing something, should explain absolutely every vote recorded).

Now, for some math, using the new numbers:

  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
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 11,400 votes cast illegitimately in the city of Milwaukee

President Bush lost Wisconsin by 11,384 votes.

[steveegg]

"More rotten cheese and skunky beer" ping

[steveegg]

Charlie Sykes of WTMJ-AM is leaping on today's developments now (10:35 am CST). For those of you cubicle-bound, or outside Milwaukee, you can listen on the Web