Posted on 02/12/2005 6:59:40 AM PST by Timeout
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I've got to hand it to Borowski. He's been a bulldog on this story.
Note that Lisa Artison is still hiding out from his determined questioning...she's been sick since Feb. 1st. And there's another election coming up TUESDAY! Just what are this woman's job duties??????
Or...hmmmm....could she be coordinating with the mayor, laying the groundwork for her resignation???
Or, borrowing a page from the Rats' favorite playbook, will she soon claim she's receiving "death threats"????
vote fraud ping
"There is no way of knowing, though, whether any ballots were rejected because of names inaccurately recorded in poll lists earlier in the day as having voted, or someone else having improperly voted as the person who actually sent in an absentee ballot."
Gee, what makes me think that it's the latter?
In a state where you don't have to show any ID to vote (just mention your name, and if your name appears on the list of registered voters, you get a ballot) this shouldn't be a suprise to anyone.
On the day before the election, a young woman called in during Mark Belling's program on WISN (the local Milwaukee talk radio program), and said that she had tried to vote early. The election judge told her that she had already voted. (In other words, somebody had gotten her name from the voter registration lists, which are public, and used her name to vote in her place.) It was too late to do anything about the ballot of the person who voted for her, so the judge just gave her a ballot too.
I wonder how many times that happened last November?
You're from Wisconsin? Milwaukee?
I have a question I haven't been able to get an answer to.
It has to do with provisional ballots.
In most states, the provisional ballot is used if someone shows up and says they should be registered, but they're not. They are then instructed to vote a provisional ballot until the elections office can research their registration.
But in Milwaukee, from my reading of all the reports, that person would have been told to do a same day registration...eliminating the most common reason for a provisional.
So, who would file a provisional in Wisconsin? Reading past articles I found that they were NOT allowed a provisional if they went to the wrong precinct. What reason is left? How many provisionals were there...I can't find that number. And what reason was given for them?
Do you want to be added to the Vote Fraud ping list?
I actually live in Lake County, Illinois, right across the border from Wisconsin. But since my own state was such a lost cause, I voted early in Illinois and volunteered to be a poll watcher in Racine County, Wis.
You're right, with same day registration in Wisconsin, if people didn't show up as being registered, they were just told to go to the other line and register. So, we really didn't have provisional ballots.
Our biggest problem was students who were registering and voting based upon their current address at the local college,(UW Parkside) even though they may have already voted absentee from their home address. And of course, people who weren't showing ID. (we were asking them anyway)
Sure, put me on.
There were virtually no provisional ballots, since people could register at the polls, with effectively no identification required. The law requires ID for registration, but allows any elector, regardless of whether they've ever laid eyes on someone prior to election day, to "vouch" for that person.
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And yet O. Ricardo Pimentel continues to hold blinders over his eyes and earplugs over his ears while baying that nothing illegal went on, and that voting should be even "easier".
I heard that lefty professors were encouraging this across the country. That may partially explain how the Dems did as well as they did in 2000 and 2004. The no ID thing and the motor voter deal being other parts of the puzzle.
Gee...how "lucky" for the Dems that they found those 238 ballots one month after the polls closed. Really, does anyone think people are this gullible? I'd love to know how many people were bused in from Chicago to vote in WI. That would be an eye-opener. I think next election, the feds ought to quarantine IL so their corruption can't be used to elections in WI and MI as well, as their own filthy nest.
Yes, that's why I was asking.
I couldn't find any data showing how many provisional ballots were actually cast by state.
I guess the MEC's recooking isn't going as well as expected. As for Lisa Artison, money says she'll next use up her vacation time, then get quietly fired.
Woooo Hooooo!
Thank you for pointing that out to me. I see it's dated today, so I don't suppose he'll talk about it until Monday. Does he have a large audience? I couldn't find a "listen live" option on WTMJ's site. Can you or someone give me a report on what he says?
I've been posting that story on every blog I could find that is following the WI election story. Lakeshore Laments is the only one that's actually done a story on it. I'd love to know where Sykes picked it up...maybe LL tipped him off.
Anyway, I hope it now gets wide coverage....lots of questions need answering.
How much vacation time can she have? She was only appointed last August! LOL!
I wish Borowski had the resources to watch her house. How much you want to bet she's going about her normal routine...except going to work. Lord forgive me if she's really sick, but it DOES seem awfully convenient. The joint investigation was announced on Jan. 25th and Borowski says she's been sick since AT LEAST Feb. 1st. I take that to mean he called her for comment on 2/1 and they said she was sick. But if he hadn't called in a few days prior to the 1st, he would have no way of knowing the first day she went missing.
Is she getting paid? I guarantee you this is coordinated with Mayor Barrett. I wonder what she's demanding in return for resigning and keeping her mouth shut.
Charlie (among the top shows in the 8:30-noon time slot) won't be back until Monday. Jeff Wagner (who is on after him during the week and on Saturday afternoons unless sports pre-empts him) is pre-empted for Badger basketball for at least the early part of the afternoon. There is a "listen live" link (it requires the SurferNETWORK Player).
I've been posting that story on every blog I could find that is following the WI election story. Lakeshore Laments is the only one that's actually done a story on it. I'd love to know where Sykes picked it up...maybe LL tipped him off.
Quite likely, or Charlie read your comments on there and elsewhere (he does frequently read several Wisconsin blogs, and Lakeshore Laments is one of them). To be fair to the other bloggers, the governor (Diamond Jim "Craps" Doyle; D-Madistan) just introduced a real crapper of a budget that (shock of shocks) the Senate Republicans led by the former "leader" appear ready to fully-cave on, and that's been the top story lately.
I think I mentioned before that she was (apparently) around on the 27th to charge Owen for access to the "fouled" same-day registrations. I'm sure she and Milk Carton Barrett are busy figuring out how to buy her silence.
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