John Fund: Irregularities in the WI election, recount may resemble Florida in 2000 (Update: Ballot shredding?)
Here’s the video. Fund’s comments on the Wisconsin irregularities are about 2 minutes in and center on Dane County.
Fund: There’s lots of irregularities. Dane County is the liberal epicenter of this election…Apparently there are up to 10,000 ballots that were cast in Dane that just voted for the Supreme Court race, which is bizarre. Because there was an extremely close race for mayor of Madison, there was an extremely close race for Dane County executive. It’s passing strange that you would have perhaps thousands of voters…just voting on this one election.
Fund adds that Wisconsin has same-day registration and no photo ID requirements. He also adds that there was a police report issued in 2008 on the subject of Wisconsin’s voting laws, concluding that they’re a “disaster” and need to be reformed. The Democrats didn’t reform them, and the police unions have played an unsavory role in the union battle that’s at the heart of the Wisconsin war.
Fund finishes up predicting that we may be looking at Florida 2000 in the Wisconsin recount.
John Fund is the author of a new book on the subject of voter fraud. He knows what he’s talking about.
Update: Now there are allegations that one county is shredding ballots that “were not counted.”
or Franken in 2008…
This is a great win for the middle class to help preserve the right for collective bargaining. The Republicans support tax breaks for the rich and want to eliminate the middle class. Let us all support the Recall vote to rid our state of the Republican blight.
A couple of things:
1) The Dane County Executive race was 70-30, not at all close.
2) You DO need an ID to register to vote, but not to vote if you’ve already registered. You cannot just walk into a polling place, say “Hey, I live here,” and get a ballot.
But hey, if it helps your point, then go ahead and lie.
You do not need a photo ID though, even if you are registering day of. All you need is proof of residency (i.e. a utility bill) That means I could take your electric bill from your mail box and go vote as you.
I was required to show photo ID when I registered as were the other people that were with me.
I’m a pollworker. The registration requirements are that you “record” your Wisconsin DL # if you have one AND “show” proof of residence. If you use your WIDL as your proof of residence, you must show it. Otherwise you do not. The potential for fraud is that you grab someone else’s utility bill and make up a DL number. The city/county clerks will eventually catch it, but the vote cannot be identified to “uncount”. It’s particularly troublesome that we don’t have to check current registered voters to verify that it’s not a duplicate.
Okay…NOW things get REALLY interesting!
Here it comes…. The ole Republican scare tactics. They use it all the time to scare folks from health care, to budgets and now election fraud just as they claimed during the 2008 Prez election. I’m glad to see that the good folks of WS are waking up. Now I hope the rest of America wakes up to see the Republicans for what they are… Koch Bros. flunkies and whores for big business and oil companies.
Republicans will not be happy until all American workers are treated just as those exploited in the third world countries they have shipped all the jobs to for their own financial gain.
C,mon WI Let’s not have another Minnesota in 2008 when the Dem socialists stole the US Senate seat to put one of their own in, Franken. Democracy is on trial here. Eliminate the Dem fraud and reinstate Judge Prosser. Dems steal all close elections with their nonsense with stolen, missing ballots-not this time!
Meanwhile, in Waukesha County (which went heavily for Prosser), there were 110,643 votes cast in the Supreme Court race. The race with the next largest number of ballots cast was for Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge, Branch 4 with 94,575 votes. That race, by the way, was closer than the Dane County Executive race.
That’s 16,068 ballots with votes in only the Supreme Court race. I’m sure John Fund will get right on that.
I wish all the hit and run commenters here would explain why they are against Voter ID laws. If there is no cheating by Democrats, what do they have to worry about? Honestly, this is so simple, I don’t understand why it’s an issue unless you know you only win by cheating.
totally robin!!!
the trollololos love their drive by’s on the tatler
it must be in the daily marching orders
One has to wonder what Kloppenburg will do, assuming that her 204 vote lead, (“mandate” according to the AP), survives the recount.
If she goes ahead and votes to uphold the constitutionality of a circuit court interposing itself into the legislative process to prevent the legislature from making law, she will be forever tarred as a stooge for the unions…and while she may be safe for the next ten years, the other Democrats on that 3-4 court will have to face the voters’ ire over such an obvious quid pro quo.
At any rate, Walker should move ahead with his Plan B of mass teacher and civil servant layoffs…unless Judge Sumi decides to issue a TRO against the executive performing HIS constitutional functions, too.