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Wisconsin election head to encourage voter registration

By ASSOCIATED PRESS   Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - 7:10 a.m.
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MADISON—Wisconsin’s top elections official is encouraging everyone eligible to vote to register for the Nov. 6 presidential election and is touting new technology to help them do that.
Wisconsin Government Accountability Board Director Kevin Kennedy planned a Tuesday news conference to discuss voter registration.
The board last week launched a new website designed to deliver absentee ballots securely online to members of the military and U.S. citizens living overseas. The site was created to be in compliance with federal law.
Kennedy says the new system ensures that ballots will be received by eligible voters overseas so they can be returned by mail and counted in time. Ballots aren’t allowed to be returned electronically.
In 2008, nearly 6,500 military and overseas voter absentee ballots were counted in the state.




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JCK
Sep 25, 2012 at 11:43 a.m.
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Regarding the massive voter fraud in Colorado and Florida. Quoting the AP story in today's Wisconsin State Journal.

"State officials in key presidential battleground states have found only a tiny fraction of illegal voters they initially suspected existed. Colorado and Florida yielded numbers that amount to less than one hundredth of 1 percent of all registered voters in either state."

thatwaseasy
Sep 25, 2012 at 9:57 a.m.
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Who hasn't already registered to vote in Wisconsin. Oh, I'm sure the Democrats will come up with many more.

thekai
Sep 25, 2012 at 9:21 a.m.
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Here is some news on rampant voter fraud found in Florida, Colorado, and other states.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...

So, you see, voter fraud does exist. In huge numbers. Further, most of the people being sent verification letters are fraudulent voters, which seems to give credit to the idea of hassling so many people (possibly discouraging some from voting, but disqualifying even more illegal voters). There was also an even number of registered Democrats and registered Republicans having their voting status checked.

The Republicans are clearly not trying to reduce votes for one party or the other. Rather, they are trying to clean up our electoral process.

This is good news for any patriot.

wislady
Sep 25, 2012 at 8:48 a.m.
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westorbust

I have nothing against LEGAL citizens registering to vote. Do you oppose the MOVE Act?

westorbust
Sep 25, 2012 at 8:44 a.m.
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Yes wislady, all those Repub laws to catch non-existent voter fraud and election workers can't even do their job right. It sure is funny how that wasn't too much of a concern in the Teapublican's rush to disenfranchise as many opposing voters as they possibly could, eh?
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Repub...

wislady
Sep 25, 2012 at 7:51 a.m.
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Too bad Kennedy has not held the municipalities accountable for not complying with the MOVE Act. In spite of having a lawsuit filed in 2010....it happened again this year.

Election clerks once again miss federal absentee ballot deadline

"MADISON – More than three dozen local election clerks appear to have missed a federally mandated deadline for sending out absentee ballots to military and overseas voters, according to the Government Accountability Board.
Election officials had until this past Saturday to send out ballots requested by military and overseas voters who want to vote in the Aug. 14 primary in which Republicans will choose a U.S. Senate candidate to face the Democratic candidate, U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, in the race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl.
The number of clerks who missed the deadline may change, as some 265 municipal clerks still haven’t told the GAB if they had any ballot requests, and GAB staff believe that some of the clerks who did respond to a survey might have responded incorrectly."

"In 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice filed lawsuits against Wisconsin and four other states for not giving overseas voters enough time to return ballots."

http://wisconsinreporter.com/wi-election...

physicsM2
Sep 25, 2012 at 7:36 a.m.
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I don't care for any of the candidates so NO THANK YOU! And please stop talking about politics I'm ready to barf!

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