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Re: GOP Voter Suppression Comes to Wisconsin         

Group: mn.politics · Group Profile
Author: Sancho Panza
Date: Sep 17, 2008 12:00

"Zaroc Stone" nospamusa.com> wrote in message
news:48d014ba.30446296@news.altopia.com...
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:52:51 -0600, tumbler wrote:
>
>>Bill Shatzer wrote:
>>> Sancho Panza wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Zaroc Stone" nospamusa.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:48d7638d.5621765@news.altopia.com...
>>>>
>>>>> GOP Voter Suppression Comes to Wisconsin
>>>>>
>>>>> Posted by Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet at 3:56 PM on September 13, 2008.
>>>>>
>>>>> A politically timed lawsuit by the state's Republican attorney general
>>>>> may create chaos at polling places on Nov. 4.
>>>>>
>>>>> Partisan voter suppression efforts have many faces, but they all have
>>>>> one goal: suppressing your political opponent's voters. . . .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> removing
>>>>> people from voter rolls if the addresses on their voter registration
>>>>> forms does not match the address on their state driver's licenses.
>>>
>>>> What method would you suggest for checking the voters' addresses?
>>>
>>> Utility bills, rental agreements, property tax statements, selective
>>> service card, mortgage documents, voter notification cards.
>>
> An election judge is not required to look up all that. They ask for a
> voter
>
> registration card. If you don't have one, they can use a driver's license
> to look you up.

Ignoring the point of the discussion -- different addresses.
> If you are not registered, you can't vote. If you move
> and don't tell them, they won't know about it. If you live near a state
> line, and recently moved, it is easy to vote where you used to live, then
> go home and vote again where you are supposed to vote in the first place.
> You will probably get away with it. You will have to lie when asked if
> you
> are registered somewhere else. Republicans are good liars. This is how
> the
> republicans came up with the slogan, "vote early, vote often." A
> republican
> friend of mine told me how they did that when the democrats were voting
> for their deceased relatives. They thought that was legal since the
> relative only died a few months ago and they knew how the relative was
> going to vote. It was another republican who told them that it was legal
> to
> vote for your great grandfather.
> See how they are?

All hand waving for being unable to answer the question about verification.
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