Tag: Government Accountability Board

I didn’t see this article until I started sifting through my print edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel during lunch. But there is an addendum at the end from former election commissioner John Franke, an appointee of Governor Scott Walker to the now defunct Wisconsin Government Accountability Board: As the…

Having learned nothing about Wisconsin’s concern with clean and open government from their open records debacle this past week, the Republicans in Madison decide to renew their efforts to disable the GAB: “Now that the state budget is complete, it’s time to double down on finalizing the necessary reforms for…

As part of the enforcement of the voter ID law, absentee ballots must be accompanied by a copy of the voter’s photo ID. So for you voting procedure mavens out there…does this jeopardize the secret ballot? From Mal Contends today: “”The law is clear that most absentee ballots must be…

It’s barely October and Wisconsin Republicans are already up to their old tricks, it seems. On Sunday, October 7, a Waukesha County resident received a robocall from Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch (R) encouraging her to attend “an important election day training” in Waukesha on Tuesday, implying that voter fraud could…

This is the webcam at the Government Accountability Board Office where they are reviewing recall petitions.  So far nobody has jumped up and down to show a signature of Mickey Mouse to a friend, though the woman with the dyed black hair was making eyes at Kevin Kennedy about 9:00…

Before I shut down the old blog, I was on a bit of a crusade against those who criticized Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board for doing what is required of it by law. The statutes are all pretty clear, I wrote (quoting, you know, the statutes), that the burden of finding…