Thursday, May 12, 2005

More fun in vote fraud city

Wisconsin State Senator Cathy Stepp says in a press release the State Senate will take up the voter id bill again today (hat tip: Lakeshore Laments). This on a day when warrants have been issued for the arrest of two voter registration workers who allegedly filled out false voter registration cards, and just after a joint federal/local task force found:

• More than 100 instances of "suspected double-voting, voting in names of persons who likely did not vote and/or voting in names believed to be fake."

• More than 200 felons voted when they were not eligible to do so. Under state law, convicted felons cannot vote until they have completed their sentences.

• More than 65 names had been falsely registered as voters by "deputy registrars" who had been paid to sign up new voters.

• The number of votes counted from the city of Milwaukee exceeded the number of people recorded as voting by more than 4,500 votes.
As Charlie Sykes pointed out yesterday, Democrats who denied the existence of voter fraud are going to have to find a new excuse to try and stop this first reasonable step of curbing voter fraud.