Posted on 10/09/2012 4:54:40 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady
In a battleground state where voter fraud has been an issue in previous presidential elections, one leading county sheriff is saying his office won’t stop ineligible felon voters from casting a ballot. An internal memo from the Dane County Sheriff’s Office instructed deputies and other staff assigned to the county jail to facilitate the absentee ballot requests of inmates. Sent from Lt. Mark Twombly, the memo specifically instructed law enforcement officials to not check on the felony status of inmates and to help everyone vote regardless of their criminal record. In Wisconsin an individual serving jail time for a felony or under parole or supervision for a felony may not cast a ballot.
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So the liberal Sheriff won’t enforce Wisconsin law. He should be fired.
I guess this helps explain why Sheriff Joe Arpaio is so popular. He's one of a kind. He takes his jobs seriously and makes sure it is getting done.
Come on Walker....grow some balls and start fighting back!
Interesting info!
If they have a felony conviction on their records, their names are on a special list which is at each polling place (covering that municipality). Their names also should have been purged from the poll book. In actual fact, the person registering new voters has the felon list and is supposed to check it when each new person fills out registration papers. Nobody else sees the list — just the registrar.
In actual fact, however, if it is a busy election with long lines (like the 2008 Presidential) it would be easy for someone to slip through the cracks. It’s one more thing for the registrar to check, and most of the polling places rotate jobs every hour. Therefore, a new person at that duty station may not be up to speed the first half hour of registering people.
There were a couple of people caught in a previous election and prosecuted this past year. Of course their votes had already been counted.
The law in Wisconsin is that a felon may not vote until they are “off paper”, IOW they are no longer on probation.
Time to get some serious cracking down done.
But I’ll still be arrested when I break the law right?
Hmmm, gives me something to check at the polling station I work at when it’s time to run the absentee ballots.
We are now a Banana Republic......WITHOUT the bananas!
Wouldn’t this make him an accessory to a crime?
Trust me—Think thru your comment, please!
There probably isn’t ONE SINGLE jail in the entire country that doesn’t have inmates who are not ALREADY felons from PRIOR convictions!!!
I passed this article on the the folks in charge of overseeing elections in Fitchburg. They hadn’t heard of this, but said they’d be meeting to figure out how best to respond.
At least one town will be ready to deal with this stunt.
Contact Govenor Walker’s office...find out what they are doing, what we can do as citizens, to stop this Sheriff. Go to Wisconsin’s freeper locale page and leave a message for the folks in Wisconsin to make this a big issue and do whatever they can to get rid of this sheriff and/or stop him from highjacking the vote. C’mon Wisconsin, and the rest of us, let’s send this info to every conservative talk show host and see what can be done. It’s vote fraud, and we have to scream it loud and clear and crush the aholes who attempt it.
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