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Thursday, October 23, 2008

GOP Loses Bid to Disenfranchise WI Voters

clipped from www.madison.com
Ruling that no federal or state law exists
making a cross-check of voter registrations a prerequisite for
voting, a Dane County judge Thursday threw out a lawsuit by
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to force state elections officials
to verify the eligibility of voters before the Nov. 4 election.
A judge dismissed Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's lawsuit seeking to force election officials to verify the eligibility of voters.
"Nothing in state or federal law requires
that there be a data match as a prerequisite for a citizen's right
to vote," Judge Maryann Sumi said in dismissing Van Hollen's
lawsuit.
The lawsuit drew stark lines between the
state political parties, with the state GOP siding with Van Hollen
and Democrats opposing the lawsuit, saying it was a partisan
attempt to disenfranchise voters.
A big victory for cheesehead democracy. Van Hollen is the state co-chair for McCain's campaign and, since lawsuit was to throw out newly registered voters that don't match existing records (misspelled names, new addresses, middle initial instead of middle name, etc.) since 2006, the suit was an incredibly transparent attempt to knock back a dem voter registration boom since then.

In my opinion, Van Hollen should be recalled for this. It was dirty, it was undemocratic, it was corrupt, and it made a lot of Wisconsinites as mad as hell. Voter suppression efforts should never be forgiven or forgotten.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why would we want to make sure that everyone who votes is legitimate, I mean....Really?? Sounds more like the dems think that assuring that people are allowed to only vote once is a bad idea.

Wisco said...

Sure, as opposed to Team McCain and Van Hollen, who believe that being allowed to vote at all is a bad idea.

Show me where registration fraud has ever thrown an election. In fact, show me an election where it's even come close.

And, of course, since Barack Obama's only 14% ahead in Wisconsin, he has to get people to steal it. Seriously, is that the logic here?

I've never seen anyone make an argument in Van Hollen's favor that didn't make them look like a fucking moron.

So far, that streak continues uninterrupted.

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