Tag: voter suppression

There has been an ongoing squabble in Wisconsin over 234,000 voters on a list of people who may have moved…or may have not. Several conservative voters are lending their names to conservative instigators, Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty, who started the initial complaints and lawsuits. You can read some…

It used to be that if you wanted to do voter registration in Wisconsin you could get trained by the Government Accountability Board as a Special Registration Deputy(SRD), be assigned an SRD number, and then travel anywhere in Wisconsin to register voters. Not anymore. The Voter Photo ID law stripped…

Professional GOP apologist propagandist and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel conservative favorite son, Christian Schneider, tossed off the following bit of jetsam in his analysis of Tuesday’s Presidential Election: The City of Milwaukee had a ridiculous 87% turnout rate on Tuesday… The only thing ridiculous about the Milwaukee turnout rate is the…

Part 2 of Rants Without Pants panel discussion where we debate “Voter Suppression”. I call this segment “The Stacy Harbaugh Show” because Stacy from the ACLU of WI kicks butt in this segment. The panel consists of Stacy Harbaugh (Communications Director for the American Civil Liberties Union of WI), Dusty…

It’s not hard to work out.  Seriously… White Americans have officially passed a major … milestone as they now represent less than half of all births in the United States. You’ve got to strip them of their rights before they know what it is they’re missing.  It’s easier that way.

They’re gonna be ready!  Are you?

Both cases have been kicked back to the appellate court for review. The state Supreme Court today refused to take up two lawsuits challenging the state’s voter ID law. The court of appeals had asked the justices to directly take the cases that resulted in two Dane County judges issuing injunctions preventing…

Florida is experiencing the effect of a draconian GOP-sponsored law that imposes severe penalties on organizations that fail to meet strict voter registration guidelines.  The outcome is record low new voter registration. The state’s new elections law — which requires groups that register voters to turn in completed forms within…

BREAKING NEWS! A Dane County Judge on Tuesday granted a temporary injunction that bars the enforcement of the state photo ID law at polling places during the general election on April 3. Circuit Judge David Flanagan said that the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP and Voces de la Frontera had…

From YouTube user “madtowngirl2” comes this footage of her son trying to get a voter ID at a DMV office in Madison. This is exactly the kind of difficulty and confusion Republicans want as folks head to their local DMV officers to get voter IDs in advance of the 2012…