Repubs. Suppress the Vote in Wisconsin

[Cal33]

The voter suppression bill passed by the Republican senators triples the length of time
a resident must live in a voting district, requires voters to purchase a picture
identification, eliminates the straight-ticket voting option and requires voters to
sign a poll list before receiving their ballots. Democrats claim that insufficient
notice of these voting requirements will discourage voters who show up at the polls
without having complied, meaning they would need at least one more trip in order to be
able to vote.

These guys are walking dirt.

http://truth-out.org/suppressing-vote/1307042409

[ananda]

1. Boy the teahate in Wisconsin is aggressive.

It's bad here in Texas too.

[Cal33]

2. And the Repubs. have control of the Supreme Court in Wisc. They can't win an election

without practicing fraud in some way or other, can they?

[L. Coyote]

3. RECALL! I hope they really feel the huge bite of their own arses this is going to be.

Why do Republicans bite themselves in the arse? Because they can!

[Cal33]

5. I love the way you use the word "arse." There is only one meaning to it.

There simply isn't any other -- and it's so EXPRESSIVE!

The word "ass" has more than one meaning, which weakens and dilutes its impact.

"Arse" is not only more expressive, it's also much more POWERFUL and, in this
case, much more accurate! :o)

[L. Coyote]

6. I think it also gets past the search engine language filters.

Many DUers may not realize they are damaging readership and f*** things up with obscenity, silly as that is.

[Scuba]

4. The also cancelled all education to certify SRD's, who can register new voters state-wide....

The State Registration Deputy program previously allowed citizens to be certified to register new voters anywhere in the State.

Now if one wants to be a voter registrar, one must be certified in each municipality in which they will register.


Dems here call it "the most repressive voting bill in American history".

[Cal33]

7. All we need to do is to look at the pictures of the torn open ballot bags for the

recent election of the state Supreme Court justice in Wisconsin.
This will give you a small idea of what Repubs. will be doing
NATIONWIDE in Nov. 2012. If you think they've been bad in the
past, you've seen nothing yet.

How does one deal with criminal gangsters holding high positions?

[SoCalDem]

8. Sounds like the democrats there have their work cut out for them

GET people the IDs they need..ASAP, and once these bastards get recalled, they can set in place more realistic rules.. If enough people can no longer vote, there will be NO change, and just more heartaches ahead:(

We need automatic voter registration whenever someone becomes 18 or is naturalized.. Voting should be an opt-out..not opt-in .

I can understand residency requirements for LOCAL elections, but for offices like Governor & senator, where exactly you live in the state should not matter that much. All you should need to have is something addressed to you at whatever address you have should be plenty to prove where you live..

And registration should be NON-partisan.. If you choose to align with a party and vote in a primary, that's fine, but it should be automatic that a citizen CAN vote..you should not have to jump through flaming hoops..

We have always had to show our drivers license at the polling place and then sign "the book". When we lived in Indiana in the 70's we had an actual Voter ID card, which was nice because it's all we needed . The League of Women Voters signed us up when we moved there.

[PeaceNikki]

9. Just so we're clear on a couple points:

Voters do NOT need ID to vote in this summer's recall elections, we still have same-day registration in WI and registration is non-partisan here

[SoCalDem]

10. Sounds promising then.,.

:thumbsup:

the article makes it sound like "all is lost"..it's good to know that things are okay after all

[Cal33]

11. And how about the votes? In view of their past history in Wisconsin,

who can trust the Repubs. with the votes over-night, let's say?
Could they be put into steel safes, that can be unlocked only
with two different keys being used at the same time -- like in
a bank vault? One key to be kept by the Repubs. and the other
by the Dems.

Even the above is not fool-proof. It would be far better if
the votes were kept in containers that are never out of sight
of two Repubs. and two Dems., day and night.

What other effective way is there to deal with born crooks?

[PeaceNikki]

12. Sometimes we win elections here in WI, too. Let's see how it pans out.

I am not convinced there was election fraud in the Supreme Court race in April. There was a lot of sloppiness and opportunity for fraud, but executing it would have been very difficult. Not impossible, but very very hard. We learned a lot by doing the recount and the recall districts did very well for Kloppenburg so we need to push hard to GOTV and work our asses off for the next several weeks.

Complaining about how shit was handled doesn't help. Tossing around ideas that aren't current law won't help. Contributing to these fine candidates will: http://www.wisdems.org/candidates

We have a fantastic group of Democrats here in Wisconsin and we're working hard to take the state back from the teabaggers. It's one of the most politically polarized places in the country right now. Walker's approval rating is 87% with Republicans and 9% with Democrats. The GOP here works very hard and wins awards for voter turnout. That's how we need to beat them... by showing up to vote.

[Cal33]

13. I have noticed for a long time that the Repubs. do work hard and

make long term plans -- for their own profit, not for the benefit of the American people. Dems. are
more lackadaisical -- until they get into trouble. They don't work and plan as steadily as do the
Repubs.

Thanks for the names of candidates for office you've recommended. The past two years I've stopped
donating to DCCC and DSCC. I think legislators should listen more to their constituents than
to their Party Establishment. If legislators received most of their campaign funds thru their
Party Establishment, they'd also be under the thumbs of the Party Establishment -- and some of
these could very well be more under the thumbs of the corporations. Hence the complaint one hears
rather often of both Dems. and Repubs. being the handmaidens of the Corporations, anyway.

I have chosen to support individual legislators myself, rather than through the Party Establishment.
You know the old saying - the fewer the middlemen, the less the corruption there will be.

[Cal33]

14. It would be nice if the Dems. should win the recall elections, including

recalling Walker in 2012, and get rid of that group of stinking rotten eggs for good.
What a blessing to mankind it will be!

[eowyn_of_rohan]

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