Looks like the Dems got Wisconson by fraud. Boots and Sabers.
Milwaukee Vote Fraud - part 2
It occurs to me that some people may seek to discount the issue regarding ballots in Milwaukee as a GOP overreaction. Please allow me to explain why the issue is important and real.
In Wisconsin, people can register at the polls on election day. So if I move to a new city and fail to register prior to the election, I can show up on the day of the election, show proof of residence, fill out the registration form, and vote. When this happens, the municipality should then immediately send me a notification at my stated address to verify the address and add me to the list of registered voters.
The incompetent Executive Director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, Lisa Artison, failed to do her duty and mail out the confirmations until a full two months after the election. This is not the first time that she has shown rank incompetence. It is up to Mayor Barrett, who appointed her, to decide if it will be the last.
In Milwaukee, about 75,000 people went through the process of registering at the polls in the November election. Got that? 75,000 people in a city of 600,000 were not registered to vote on the day of the election, so they registered at the the polls. That, in and of itself, seems to be a remarkable number to me, but I have not compared it to other municipalities.
Of those 75,000 registrations, a full 13% of them, or about 10,000 registrations, are illegible. Presumably the identity of the registrant was checked on election day, but since the registration can’t be read, there is no way to verify the registration. Off of the bat, we have 10,000 votes that were cast in Milwaukee for voters whose existence can’t be verified.
Of the remaining 65,000 registrations for which confirmation cards have finally been sent, the Elections Commission says to expect that a full third of them, or about 22,000, will be returned undeliverable. This means that the address was incorrectly written or outright fictitious. Considering that most people know how to write their own address and the poll worker should have confirmed the address from identification produced at the polls, I would say that the majority of these addresses are just outright fictitious.
We are up to about 32,000 people who voted on election day who should not have.
Of the remaining 43,000 registrants, there will be some who gave a real address, but don’t actually live there. There will also be some who have moved since the election. I would say that we could conservatively estimate that 10% of the remaining registrants - at the minimum - will be invalid. That’s an additional 4,300 people.
All told, it looks like there were a minimum of 36,000 votes cast in the City of Milwaukee for which no voter can be produced.
The election in Wisconsin was decided by 11,384 votes.
In the City of Milwaukee, there were 198, 907 votes cast for Kerry/Edwards and 75,746 votes cast for Bush/Cheney. As you can see, the City of Milwaukee came out strong for Kerry/Edwards.
So what we have is an instance where there were an abnormal number of election day registrations were filed for which the voters can not be verified in a city that voted overwhelming for the Democratic candidate. In addition, the number of voters in question far exceeds the margin of victory of the Democratic candidate. There is a strong indication that some massive voter fraud took place in Milwaukee. Although it appears that the Dems may have won Wisconsin through fraud, thank goodness it did not change the outcome of the race.
So what can be done?
The truth is that even if Lisa Artison had done her duty and sent out the confirmations on time, the votes would have still been counted. Once the vote is cast, it is anonymous. There is no way for anyone to match a particular vote to a particularly fraudulent voter and remove it. Plus, by the time it was known that the registrations were false, the votes were already counted.
The only thing that we can do is reform our elections so that something like this does not happen again. Here are two reforms that would greatly improve the integrity of our elections:
1) Stop allowing people to register on election day.
It is not hard to register to vote. It takes 5 minutes and you can do it by mail if you choose. There is no reason that a person can’t register to vote prior to an election except for sheer laziness. Even if you move into a new district the day of an election, you have not yet established residence and could vote in your old district (absentee, if necessary).
2) Require proof of identity at the polls.
This reform is just plain common sense. If you can’t establish your identity, then you should not be allowed to vote. There are many forms of identity acceptable and I would support free identification cards for those who do not have the wherewithal to obtain one on their own.
Voting is a serious affair that has far-reaching and dramatic consequences. It is long past time that we stop treating it as cavalierly as the decision to use paper or plastic.
UPDATE: After writing this, I found a story in the paper about it that has slightly different numbers. It does not alter the argument or seriousness of the issue. Also, take note how the newspaper begins the story with, “A Republican lawmaker who advocates a voter ID requirement is criticizing...” Did I not tell you that they would try to dismiss the story as a GOP overreaction?
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