Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Tighter voting laws urged

Well Dems, here is another issue you are completely wrong on:

Some highlights:
Nearly three years after police began a probe into 2004 voting flaws in Milwaukee, investigators issued a report Tuesday that says eliminating same-day registration and requiring voters to show photo IDs would minimize the problems found.

Both have been advocated in the Legislature, with most of the support coming from Republicans, citing the integrity of the system, and strong opposition from Democrats, expressing concerns about disenfranchising voters.

The Journal Sentinel first estimated the discrepancy between the ballot count and the number of people listed as having voted at about 7,000, though prosecutors said previous efforts to resolve the gap narrowed that number to about 4,600. The gap remains, though no final number was given.

As the newspaper reported, some 1,300 on-site registrations could not be processed for a variety of reasons, including missing addresses and missing names. Indeed, 141 were from addresses outside the city.

After noting many discrepancies in wards near Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, investigators looked deeper at student voting.
The report cites a detailed review of Ward 39, which consists almost entirely of UWM's Sandberg Hall.
It found 2,101 ballots cast at the ward but only 1,887 people recorded as voting, part of the unexplained voting gap.
A further review found 31 people voting there who were not residents of the ward, including some UWM students who lived elsewhere.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good for the country. Following rules is a good thing.

Anonymous said...

what you've posted here shows a problem with the system of registration and counting votes, but does not provide any conclusive evidence of intent of voter fraud. sounds like students confused about where to vote and poll workers who don't have an adequate process for accepting and counting ballots. incompetence is more indicative of republicans in charge than some democratic plot.

The Game said...

anon number 22558742365 might top the cake with the dumbest anon comment ever...
First of all, this report talks about problems in Milwaukee county, which is run totally by Democrats.
Second, the two main solutions presented in the report are constantly blocked BY DEMOCRATS when Republicans draft bills to fix the problems...
Let's see, the two main ways people can commit voter fraud are supported by Dem's, I wonder why that is?

TerryN said...

anon, There was evidence of voter fraud, election fraud as well as incompetence in the report.

Don't think they uncovered all of the discrepancies. This is all they found with limited resources and abysmal record keeping. This report turned on the light in the kitchen and revealed some cockroaches. Don't think for a moment that's all there are.

May I ask which party has a member in congress who's son was convicted for slashing tires on vans on election day? I'll give you a hint because you seem to need it. (The vans were going to bring republican voters to the polls.

There's nothing to see there, eh?

PCD said...

Democrat love vote fraud and stuffing the ballotbox. It is in their DNA.