Tag: voting rights

Earlier this month I called bullshit on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s failure to hold special elections to fill vacant legislative seats after appointing GOP legislators to administrative positions (Walker Sued Over Elections, His Excuse?) The arguments involved are: under the one voter one vote rule, Wisconsin residents aren’t being represented…

If you are reading this, I can’t imagine that you haven’t voted in the past four years. But if you are a Wisconsin voter and in fact haven’t voted for that period of time…you might want to watch your mailbox. Wisconsin election officials are setting the stage to remove hundreds…

No, really! Weren’t we promised proof of the illegal voting? Didn’t the media interview some computer maven who had the list and just needed a little bit more time to verify it? Where is it? Well never fear, the president is getting right on it: Trump to create voter fraud…

Apparently Sen. Sanders likes the idea being implemented in Oregon and California that provides citizens with automatic voter registration! Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders called for a constitutional amendment to automatically register all eligible voters during a Democratic candidate forum on Friday night. He said he wanted to see legislative reform…

After years of hearing how heinous voter fraud is during the various debates in support of Voter ID and the later court cases surrounding it’s implementation…it boggles my mind how the lawyer for an actual fraudulent voter says he got too severe a punishment. I mean really, 90 days of…

I already give the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel enough linkage here that they should be giving me a free subscription about now…but never mind about that…now I am adding one that goes to their page with FAQs about Voter ID and the November 4th general election in Wisconsin: FAQs About Wisconsin…

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s resident conservative op ed writer and GOP apologist held forth on why unlimited money in campaigns isn’t really an issue. I am not going to do into that right now…but his most telling reason why the money isn’t that important is? Well, we’ll let Christian Schneider…

The bill recently passed in the state Senate to restrict the hours that are available to early voting should be vetoed according to an editorial published at JSOnline. The GOP, particularly Senator Grothman, argues that these restrictions are necessary to level the playing field between rural and urban municipalities. Well…

There has been some press lately about Governor Walker’s attempts to reach out to Hispanic voters…and the significance of the first Republican Latina being elected to the state legislature…all despite the fact the Republican sponsored Voter ID bills will disenfranchise Latino voters as well as African Americans and other minorities….

State Representative Jeff Stone introduces a bill that wrecks havoc with voter rights and adds new restrictions on early voting and tries to do an end run to enable voter id legislation (we’ll get to those later). And the headline at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s JSONLINE is Elections bill would…