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To: Sully- who wrote (6029)	11/1/2004 9:46:04 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

Hmmm. Interesting in light of this: GOP, Milwaukee leaders reach agreement on voter list Associated Press MILWAUKEE - Republican and city officials have agreed to distribute to polling places a list of 5,512 prospective voters whose addresses are questionable. The GOP had questioned the validity of thousands of other voter addresses. Under Sunday's agreement, poll workers will ask potential voters on the list to fill out a change of address card or registration form, and to show proof of residency. Anyone who does not have proof of residency at an address on the list will have to take an oath, and that person's ballot will be marked as being challenged. Those ballots will be counted, but another decision on whether they count could be made if there is a recount, Deputy City Attorney Linda Burke said Monday. A dispute over questionable addresses started last week when the GOP filed a petition questioning 5,619 voter addresses and seeking to have the names removed from the voting list. The city Election Commission refused. The Republicans then came up with a new list of more than 37,000 questionable addresses, and they demanded city officials require those voters show identification before casting ballots. The GOP would not formally challenge those additional addresses at the polls in light of the city's willingness to reach an agreement with the party, Wisconsin Republican Party chairman Rick Graber said Monday. The Republicans came up with the 5,512 questionable addresses after running the list of addresses of more than 300,000 people registered to vote in the city through a software program also used by the U.S. Postal Service. Graber said the GOP found about 100 addresses it had questioned in last week's petition appeared valid after the additional check. "There's no question at all that the city of Milwaukee voter registration list was in shambles," Graber said. "I will say that I believe this to be a positive step forward to preserving the integrity of this election." City Attorney Grant Langley had said a check of the GOP's original list of 5,619 registrations had found "hundreds and hundreds and hundreds" of legitimate addresses. Wisconsin Elections Board executive director Kevin Kennedy said city officials were intent on taking some action to lessen any perception that Milwaukee's voter rolls were rife with fraud. "Our sense was we wanted to get away from any widespread perception of fraud," Kennedy said. "One way to do that was to set up a system that if the voters came to the polling place we'd have a way to check their address." In many cases, he said, the addresses are questionable because of data entry error. Langley said city elections officials believed the list of 5,512 was something they could handle and distribute to poll workers. Graber said the GOP still reserved the right to challenge anything fishy on Election Day. A spokesman for the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said the Democrats had not yet had a chance to see the agreement. "Our bottom line is that everyone who is qualified to vote in the State of Wisconsin should be able to do so without harassment," spokesman George Twigg said. "We have a team of voting rights attorneys in place to make sure that's what happens on Election Day." mercurynews.com