Yesterday the trial to settle the disputed Washington governor's election started. Republicans are claiming fraud and corruption robbed Dino Rossi of the governors office.


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Republican candidate for governor Scott Walker has a comon sense plan for a Wisconsin Voter Photo ID.

•Photo identification requirement to vote (Wisconsin drivers license or state issued identification card).
•End to same day voter registration (so duplicate voters will be found and so felons can be purged from poll lists in advance of Election Day).
•Return to previous system of absentee ballot process where voters must be have reason to vote absentee (travel, health, etc.) so that municipal staff are not overwhelmed before Election Day with early voting.
•Prohibit voter registration drive organizers from paying for each signature collected by employees.

The system needs to be fixed, yet Govenor Doyle has twice used his veto to stop voter ID in spite of more than 83 percent of Wisconsin residents in favor of it.

This plan will disenfranchise felons, out of state voters, dead people, and those who attempt to vote a second time.

Many of my liberal friends have been down-playing the Milwaukee vote fraud investigation, some of them even calling it just a Republican plot to disenfranchise voters.

While the investigation is still ongoing, they reported today that they found clear evidence of voter fraud, mostly in Milwaukee. More than 200 cases involved felons voting illegally. Also more than 100 people voted twice, used fake names or false addresses, or voted in the name of dead people.


A lot of the Journal Sentinel article is a rehash of their findings earlier in the year like the 7,000-vote gap with more votes counted than people tallied in log books. Statewide 278 felons voted, though most of them came from Milwaukee. Of some 70,000 same-day registration cards, 1,300 were allowed to vote in spite of the fact that many were missing addresses and even names.

They can't even be looking at them if the person's name is missing. If I'm not mistaken the poll workers have to initial them, if not they should. Those people should never be allowed to work at a polling place again.

Some of the findings of the investigation.


A state legislative task force is also reviewing findings for possible reforms. More complete coverage of this story will be in Wednesdays Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. This blog will have a follow up with more details.

Here we go again, another state with the Democrats crying foul and disenfranchisement for having to prove you are who you say you are.


The opposition excuses are so lame I don't know how they can keep repeating them with a straight face.

Update: More at Daly Thoughts.