Uppity Wisconsin

Golly! Is Wisconsin Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen a crazy socialist, or WHAT?

He has allocated more than $700,000 to continue funding "Drug Endangered Children Teams" for Methamphetamine abuse in the state. Go figure.

Of course, this problem was originally pursued aggressively in the Cheese State by the remarkable former AG Peggy Lautenschlager. Nice follow-up though ... as long as it leads to rehabilitation over crazy convictions.

Incredible! Bush wants the US DOJ to look into the GOP's proposed Ohio vote suppression scheme using HAVA, seeking forced provisional voting that suppresses legal voters.

After being shot down by the US Supreme Court on using the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) for the purpose of declaring eligible voters to be tentatively ineligible because of database mismatches - a purpose that the text of HAVA expressively forbids - Bush and the Republicans will not give up.

As the Milwaukee Branch of NAACP and the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association write in their amicus brief in the Van Hollen v. GAB Wisconsin case, provisional voting is inherently suppressive, and many provisional voters will not be able to come back the next day to corroborate their legal voting status, and leave the voting process with questions about whether their votes counted.

Thank God someone's asking how much Van Hollen's attempt to disenfranchise Wisconsin voters cost.

Senator Mark Miller and Representative Mark Pocan sent the Attorney General a letter, and the response is pretty incredible, as well as bitchy.

Given Van Hollen's unbelievable answer, one has to ask, is the Wisconsin Attorney General lying?

Are we the taxpayers to believe that his answer of $155 (the cost to file the lawsuit) is for real? His staff wrote a 72-page brief, they represented this bullshit lawsuit in court. That's FREE?

Perhaps Van Hollen will reconsider his response. Here's how to contact his office to find out.

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:

Forget ACORN (and here's a good article about how they've actually followed the law), here's the real case of voter fraud that no one wants you to notice - since 2004, as many as 13 million voters have been purged from the roles. This is the concerted effort being perpetrated on American citizens by elected officials like Wisconsin Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen, and those in 39 other states.

They're using clerical errors to suppress voter turnout, folks. This isn't a matter of "cleansing voter roles" for inaccurate information. This is a war on democracy. And it's being done today, illegally, within 90 days of the election.

13 million voters purged. Think about that. And naturally, it's heavily occurring in battle ground states.

The Brennan Center for Justice has the details in its latest report.

And, shock, even mainstream media outlets are beginning to take notice. Here's the latest from CBS.

UPDATE: Find out your voter status here.

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.