[Timeout]

It's just mind boggling, isn't it?!

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.)
or
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.

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.

[steveegg]

So that's you :-) Why couldn't I quite recognize the style?

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).

[Kozak]

It's worse then that. By law you cannot be asked to produce ID to vote in Wisconsin. ANYONE can go to the polls and vote in your place. One trick is they watch the rolls and see who hasn't voted, then just before the polls close they send in the frauds.

It shouldn't be harder to rent from Blockbuster then it is to vote.