BS: GOP Voter Suppression Comes to Wisconsin

Subject: BS: GOP Voter Suppression Comes to Wisconsin
From: Stringsinger
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 06:17 PM

Partisan voter suppression efforts have many faces, but they all have one goal: suppressing your political opponent's voters.

In Wisconsin this past week, the Republican Attorney General, J.B. Van Hollen, filed a politically timed lawsuit that local election officials say will interfere with turnout for the presidential election on Nov. 4 and create a bureaucratic nightmare for election workers seeking to process a record number of new voter registrations before then. The AG's game plan is simple: create a bureaucratic nightmare to tie up the election machinery before Election Day and then create bottlenecks to confound voters on Election Day.

According to a Sept. 12 report by Steven Elbow at Madison.com, the Wisconsin AG filed suit this past Wednesday forcing election officials to use a tactic being employed by Republicans in other states -- notably Michigan, Kansas and Louisiana -- that involves removing people from voter rolls if the addresses on their voter registration forms does not match the address on their state driver's licenses. The rationale to purge would be based on the assumption that if the addresses did not match then the voter registration would be incorrect and therefore invalid.

Subject: RE: BS: GOP Voter Suppression Comes to Wisconsin
From: CarolC
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 08:05 PM

The Republicans know they can't get elected without cheating. That's the core philosophy of the Republican party... make the world safer for the cheaters.

Subject: RE: BS: GOP Voter Suppression Comes to Wisconsin
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 08:23 PM

Throwing registered people off the list should always err on the side of liberty. Just because a vote is challenged should not require automatic expulsion.
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The Republican plan is to do this to all college students who do not live at home.

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