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Friday, September 10, 2010

Die Is Cast

I went in to vote absentee today.  I prefer to vote on voting day because it’s fun to chat with the poll workers and get a read on turnout (I try to go late in the day).  Due to my work schedule, however, I wasn’t sure if I could make it to the polls on Tuesday.  In order to make sure I’d get to vote, I took care of it today. 

I’m still amazed by the lack of security when voting.  I had to give my name and address to vote.  I had to sign the envelope for my absentee vote, but the clerk didn’t have any way to verify my signature since she never asked for any ID.  I could have put a paw print there and nobody would have known the difference. 

In any case, I’m relatively sure that my vote will be counted… sort of… maybe…

(9) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1223 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. Thanks for voting Owen.

    I voted absentee in the 2008 Presidential election.  You would not know it if you looked at the GAB data base though!

    Frankly I don’t like the lines, but I never miss an election.  I too like to go late in the day and see how turnout is going.

    Posted by Fred on September 10, 2010 at 1507 hrs


  2. I’m still amazed by the lack of security when voting.  I had to give my name and address to vote.  I had to sign the envelope for my absentee vote, but the clerk didn’t have any way to verify my signature since she never asked for any ID.  I could have put a paw print there and nobody would have known the difference.

    You should have been required to complete a GAB-191 form, “Application for Absentee Ballot.” The Clerk then looks up your voter record in the Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS), and records your voter registration number on the GAB-191. If you aren’t registered you don’t get a ballot. At least that’s how it’s supposed to be done. If your mom is the Clerk, and you’re voting in a town with a population of 12, she maybe bypassed some of the formalities we have in the larger farming towns.

    But we DO need the option of requiring a DL or ID to vote!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 10, 2010 at 1554 hrs


  3. I have a Sport Illustrated subscription under the name “Owen Robinson”.  I’ve already taken that into the city” clerk in West Bend as proof of my residency, registered and voted “Barrett” on behalf of Owen.  Hope that is ok.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 10, 2010 at 1606 hrs


  4. The “security” is that you go to jail if you illegal cast a vote or pretend to be someone else when you vote.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 10, 2010 at 1701 hrs


  5. 1) Prosecution doesn’t rescind a fraudulent vote.

    2) Prove it.  Prove I didn’t vote under someone else’s name.  And if there is suspicion, prove that it was me that cast the fraudulent vote.  I didn’t see any cameras in the clerk’s office.  The laws are set up to make it very difficult to prove anything.

    Posted by Owen on September 10, 2010 at 1746 hrs


  6. Common sense is all you need to realize a photo ID should be necessary to vote in the 21st century.  Common sense is all you need to realize that anyone against an ID to vote is pro voter fraud. 

    If you can’t beat them maybe you should join them.  Laws will change real fast…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 10, 2010 at 1838 hrs


  7. In any case, I’m relatively sure that my vote will be counted… sort of… maybe…

    Not if someone shows up at the polling place on election day and votes in your name. Voter rolls are marked off starting with election day voting. After voting ends, they start marking off absentee voters.

    Proof that Democrats want/need/support election fraud: They voted down a proposal that would have allowed individuals to require ID for votes cast in their own name. That is - if you wanted to guarantee that nobody voted in your name, you could require the poll workers to ask you for an ID. If you did not want to show an ID, you didn’t need to do anything.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 10, 2010 at 2124 hrs


  8. I always write in a vote for my wife for some random post, then go to the web site to see that she got a vote. The only problem is that she nearly won one of our small town posts one year after I told a bunch of friends this trick and they copied me. She’d have killed me if she’d actually won the election.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 11, 2010 at 0023 hrs


  9. You people that think there is widespread voter fraud (i.e. people willing to face prosecution to cast their ONE vote) are rather paranoid.  People on both side who think that elections are “stolen” or whatever are insane

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 11, 2010 at 2147 hrs


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