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Voting in America's Dairy Republic
The polls have only been open in Wisconsin for a few hours, but the trouble--vandalism, illegitimate registration, and more--has already started.
by Stephen F. Hayes
11/02/2004 11:45:00 AM
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Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
VOTING is off to a bad start in Wisconsin. Thirty vans rented by the Republican National Committee to use in Milwaukee get-out-the-vote efforts were rendered inoperable by vandals overnight. The vehicles were parked near a Republican headquarters on Capitol Drive, where their tires had been slashed. The GOP is scrambling to find replacement vehicles.

"This is a targeted effort to sabotage a political party's effort to get out the vote," says Chris Lato, communications director for the Wisconsin Republican party

The tire slashings were not the only incidents of vandalism directed at Republicans on election eve. The building that houses a Republican party office in Madison was defaced. Vandals spray-painted "illegitimate democracy" in black letters in two different locations across the building.

One young woman who lives in a heavily Democrat neighborhood in Milwaukee, showed up to vote this morning to find that seven people are registered to vote under her address. She lives with one other person.

The same woman reports that she was the 50th person to cast a vote at her precinct and it took her 45 minutes to do so. Her precinct is giving priority to new registrants, who get shuffled to the front of the line and, she says, are in-and-out within minutes.

More trouble: A Bush-Cheney poll worker reports that laws restricting "electioneering" close to polling places have in many cases been rendered obsolete by long lines. This worker says that MoveOn.org workers at Riverside High School in Milwaukee are accosting voters and urging them to vote
for John Kerry.

Five days earlier, after a rally for Kerry that featured Bruce Springsteen, the Madison City clerk's office honored a request from the Kerry campaign to keep its offices open three hours after their normal closing time of 5: 00 p.m. Their objective was to encourage would-be early voters to go directly from the Kerry rally to cast their ballots. Republicans, of course, cried foul--but the offices stayed open. The attempt at cheating was not terribly successful. Newspaper reports suggest that relatively few voters took advantage of the extra time to vote early.

Charges of voter fraud and harassment are not new to Wisconsin. In 2000, a New York Democrat named Connie Milstein handed out cigarettes to the homeless in an effort to get their votes. When her shenanigans were first reported, then-chairman of the Democratic National Committee Joe Andrew said she was not a Democratic "heavy hitter" and was in Wisconsin on her own, as a concerned voter. Those claims were, well, hard to substantiate. Milstein was listed by the DNC as chairman of the party's "Major Supporters Committee" and had hosted a $25,000-per-person fundraiser for Al Gore at her Park Avenue residence. What's more, she was captured by a camera crew for a local Wisconsin station saying, ""I am here representing the Gore and Lieberman campaign and I was asked to get out the vote in Wisconsin." Milstein was not charged with felony voter fraud, but settled for a mere $5,000. (Not an amount likely to discourage someone who contributed $600,000 to Democrats in the 2000 election cycle alone.)

In 2002, two Democrats were captured on television by another Milwaukee TV station running a Bingo game for the mentally disabled. Nothing wrong with that, of course, except that they were wearing "Doyle for Governor" t-shirts, and provided the participants with food and absentee ballots.

Wisconsin is quickly losing its status as a clean elections state. No wonder.

Stephen F. Hayes is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard.

[Theresa Alwood]

And this truly surprises anyone? How about the 2,000 votes already on a voting machine in PA - plus there is questions of other machines. It is going to be a very long night. I am not watching any of the polls because I believe in my heart that the American people will not elect John Kerry. I just can not accept that thought!
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Born to raise a little hell!

[MassInd]

[.::geo::.]

I posted this in another thread, I didn't see the Wisconsin one before that..

So here it is.. it's not just Milwaukee and Madison anymore.

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What madness!!!!!!!!!!!

I was a poll runner from 12-5 today.. and let me tell you.. those dem-lawyers They were out in full force. The election officials were using college directories to verify student addresses!!!!! And even after the State Election 'guy' sent out a message with an assembly person, they STILL used the directories! MoveOn was set up within 20 feet of the polling area. Since they're 'non-partisan' they got to stay there! ARRRGH! THEN, the New Voter's Project kids were right out asking people their names when they came out the door from voting! That's a big no-no, they can listen, they CANNOT ask.

It's craziness here in 'Sconie, but I've got a good feeling about W.

God help us all and keep praying!

e,

Georgi

[Me#1You#10]

Not much so far...but an amazing possibility....

PRESIDENT

CANDIDATE VOTE TOTAL PERCENT WINNER
Bush (Rep)* 22434 54%
Kerry (Dem) 18513 45%
Nader (Ind) 222 1%

[GiveMeFreedom]

[Me#1You#10]

Wisconsin ElectTotal: 10 Precincts Reporting: 28%
Name Party Vote Pct Electoral
Bush Rep 426,101 54 0
Kerry Dem 354,821 45 0
Nader Ind 4,512 1 0
Badnarik Lib 1,799 0 0
Cobb Grn 694 0 0
Brown Ind 116 0 0
Harris Ind 110 0 0

[joeshero]

Tight race.

1411 of 3540 precincts - 40 percent

John F. Kerry Dem 590,087 - 51 percent
George W. Bush (i) Rep 565,658 - 49 percent
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[ProudbrotherofUSSoldier]

They must be getting into the Democrat Heavy Area's now because Bush had been leading up until now
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Kerry was in Vietnam for only four months, which, coincidentally, is less than the combined airtime he's spent talking about it.

Ann Coulter

[Debs]

Could it be tightening again?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=1266

53% in -

Kerry - 50%
Bush - 49%

Debbie
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"No greater love..."

[msindependent]

Hewitt say's Wiscon still in play. 62% in with W -20,000. However, rural votes not in yet.