Posted on 09/15/2012 5:41:28 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Madison - The state's chief elections official said Wednesday that he does not want the Wisconsin Supreme Court to rule before the Nov. 6 presidential election on two cases that have blocked the state's voter ID law.
If the high court were to reinstate the law in the next eight weeks, people who do not have appropriate IDs may have to scramble to get them, said Kevin Kennedy, director of the state Government Accountability Board. Additionally, his agency would have to rush to train clerks and poll workers on what IDs could be used for voting.
"There's not enough time," Kennedy said.
Two Dane County judges blocked the voter ID law this year in cases against Gov. Scott Walker and Kennedy's board, which runs state elections. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen in August asked the Supreme Court to take the cases and quickly rule on them so the law can be in place for this fall's election.
The court has not yet said what it will do, though in April it declined to take them when Van Hollen made an earlier request.
Van Hollen must represent clients with two different viewpoints - Walker wants the case taken up soon, while the accountability board wants the matter decided after the election. Kennedy said he informed Van Hollen's Department of Justice of his concerns, adding he recognized the attorney general's authority to decide how to handle the case.
"We said, 'This is going to create problems,' and they said, 'Well, we want this resolved quickly,' " Kennedy said.
Walker and Van Hollen are Republicans. The accountability board is nonpartisan and consists of six retired judges. Kennedy said the board has no position on whether the state should require IDs for voting, but that for administrative reasons, it does not want major changes...
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Correction, it was the League of Women Voters and the NAACP that sued. The ACLU hasn’t weighed in on this one yet.
Voter fraud is revolting!
I wonder what George Washington would do to someone or some group caught committing voter fraud?
Sorry. Timing is everything. And we seldom get to choose our timing.
And there is always the “purple ink” on the index finger.
That works too.
You’ve got it! And anybody who is worried about her manicure can just pound salt, instead of voting.
Those 3 approaches should put a dent in voter fraud, and don’t require Feds approval.
Ah, but they require Kevin Kennedy approval, and that is the fly in the ointment.
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