Uppity Wisconsin

Clerical errors in voter registrations are not examples of voter fraud, as Wisconsin Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen and the GOP continue to propose. Comparing information across computer databases that were never intended for such use is not voter fraud.

Too bad Wisconsin elected officials, and others across the nation, are trying desperately to disenfranchise voters with this nonsense. Van Hollen may not get his way this November, but this issue will not be going away.

So, why is information about voters and voter name comparisons among incompatible computer database systems being sought by GOP operatives? The easy answer is because they're freaking out about their impending loses.

Because there are only two time-tested ways to win elections - 1) Register more voters than the other guys 2) Suppress voting rights and disenfranchise people voting for the other guys as much as possible.

Obama is doing #1. The GOP is banking on #2.

Meanwhile, here are real examples of voter fraud:

The highly respected Brennan Center for Justice at New York University's School of Law, has a comprehensive, well researched and documented white paper by Justin Levitt on recent allegations of voter fraud allegedly occurring in Wisconsin and other states within the last eight years, entitled, "The Truth About Voter Fraud."

Once you read it, your eyes will be opened to the sham that is being perpetrated upon the U.S. voters. In fact, one could easily argue that the widespread rumors of voter fraud exist to confuse the populace and further deepen the cynicism of our electoral process. These efforts may also serve a larger agenda to keep real voting reform off the table, that is, extending the time people are allowed to cast votes; make it LESS burdensome for people to vote in the first place; and acts by political campaigns to buy votes, among many others.