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No Issues with Voter ID

Gee, whodathunk that almost everyone has a picture ID and carries it with them?

Local election officials reported no problems enforcing the new law as people in about 520 of Wisconsin’s 1,850 cities, villages and towns voted on local races. In Dane County, they cast ballots in a judicial primary, while some also winnowed the candidates for two County Board seats and weighed in on a school referendum.

Posted by Owen at 2211 hrs
Law + Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

1. Hmmm.  Apparently voter fraud is more prevalent in the legislature than in the public. Check this out. I believe the the Assembly rules requires members to be present to have a vote cast. Rule 76(5)

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDiQgcVUZ3Q

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2012 at 2228 hrs
   
   
   

2. It was good to hear everyone, including the Milwaukee elections coordinator admit that things went well.  And also hearing citizens say they felt good about signing into the book. Brings confidence to the process.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2012 at 2241 hrs
   
   
   

3. Brings confidence to the process.

   And it is needed, Al Franken!

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2012 at 0928 hrs
   
   
   

4. Last I looked the sky was still up there. Now maybe the whiners will pull up their big boys and just go home. Quietly.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2012 at 1120 hrs
   
   
   

5. A letter to the editor in today’s WB Daily News made a good point - the only “intimidation” that voters will face in this process will come from dealing with the staff at the Dept. of Motor Vehicles when obtaining photo ID.  Maybe the Republicans could find a way to privatize that process, so voters need not suffer voter “disenfranchisement” at the hands of rude and surly public sector employees.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2012 at 1153 hrs
   
   
   

6. Kleefisch, in that video, looks like a kid who got caught with his hand in a cookie jar.  Priceless. 

   Where were the missing Republican legislators on that important vote?  Not, we hope, in Illinois!

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2012 at 2011 hrs
   
   
   

7. Kleefisch is more evidence the state GOP knows what it’s talking about when blathers about voter fraud. What are the chances that, with indisputable video proof, the party clamors for prosecuting this felon?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2012 at 2201 hrs
   
   
   

8. No issues?  Nonsense.  You must mean “no reading of papers or blogs that would disprove my point.”  Of course, there were issues.  Here’s just one of several instances in Madison alone:

   “There was also continued confusion among poll workers over the photo ID requirements. Attorney Tim Verhoff, who recently moved to a new house, says he had no problem when he presented his driver’s license with his old address. But his wife’s license with her old address was rejected at the same polling station.” 

   Now, there were not a lot of instances, since there was not much turnout.  But those who pushed for this law, including this blog, would do better to not pretend that there were no issues and, instead, push for facing the few problems that did occur to be sure that they are fixed before a big-turnout election.

   The screwup then could cost you votes, too.  Like the one in the toney Republican burb where a friend of mine was in line behind the woman who was surprised to be asked for her ID.  She said, “But I thought that the law was only for black people.”

   She didn’t have her ID with her, and she didn’t vote.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 24, 2012 at 0848 hrs
   
   
   

9. I call bull&*%$.

   She said, “But I thought that the law was only for black people.”

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 24, 2012 at 0934 hrs
   
   
   

10. Moo, I’ll tell my friend that you said that she’s a liar.

    Now, how will that help get out the information to get out the vote?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 24, 2012 at 0957 hrs
    
    
    

11. Oh the wailing and gnashing of teeth.  If only there were things like “Provisional Ballots” to cover that type of problem.  Oh wait… there are provisional ballots.  Next.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 24, 2012 at 1017 hrs
    
    
    

12. http://gab.wi.gov/clerks/provisional-ballots

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 24, 2012 at 1023 hrs
    
    
    

13. Of course, there are provisional ballots, and I hope that poll workers were not too confused to figure that out—but I’ve had to instruct them at my polling place on that, even in the past.

    I’m with Mike Nichols’ headline on this.  It’s not that there were “no issues with voter ID,” when the evidence is that there were some issues, and they have to be admitted to be fixed for the big turnout in fall, or others of us are going to have to put up with confused poll workers and long lines and angry citizens who deserve to be treated better for being ready with their IDs.

    Instead, as Nichols’ headline said, far more wisely, “the sky didn’t fall.”

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 24, 2012 at 1200 hrs
    
    
    

14. Like the one in the toney Republican burb w

    The plural of anecdote is not data.

    She said, “But I thought that the law was only for black people.”

    As if racists only vote Republican.

    Posted by Brian Dunbar on February 24, 2012 at 1558 hrs
    
    
    

15. Of course, Brian, we have no idea how she would have voted—had she voted.  You must have missed that the adjective modified not the person, but the locale.  Trust me, if I named it, you would have to agree that it’s rather remarkably Republican, thus the characterization.  However, I’m sure that a few Democrats are allowed to make life somewhat less boring there.
     
    Back to the point:  Why fight the fact that in any election, there are issues at some polling places?  And that there were issues again this time, and some had to do with the new changes?  Why is this so startling?  Instead, realize that the way to prevent any traction for the challenges to the law—already, and to prevent more—from having any evidence in their favor is to face that there were problems and fix them by fall?  This is not rocket science.  This is being reality-based.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 24, 2012 at 2251 hrs
    
    
    

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