It is becoming apparent that the election was not as clean in Wisconsin as we had all first thought. The vandalism of vans the Republicans had rented to take voters to the polls not withstanding, it now seems that there was huge problems with same day registration votes in Milwaukee County. For more detail, see the coverage at My View of the World and Boots & Sabers. In a nut shell, the election board must send out address verification cards immediately after the election to people who registered at the polls. Instead, they waited 2 months. On top of that, 75,000 people registered at the polls. Almost 10,000 of those had illegible cards which could not be verified. That does not include any of the cards which will be coming back from non existant addresses. Bush has won this election, but it now appears possible that Wisconsin really was a red state in 2004. He had a lead in some polls going into the election, and he lost by a little over 11,000 votes. The fraudluent vote count in Milwaukee could conceivably have more than made up that gap.
Journal Sentinel coverage of the story is here.
CORRECTION
The election in Wisconsin was decided by a little over 11,000 votes, not 18,000 as previously stated.
(Cross posted at Badger Blog Alliance)
1 comment:
Aw come on, Jib. Get on with life now. Your guy won. No questions asked. Give up the whining already. I know you wanted W to win Wisconsin just as much as I wanted Kerry to win Ohio.
But none of that happened. So enough already.
Let's start thinking of what needs to be done by the President to make him 'legendary'. Not about the voting.
If anyone, it is Kerry and his supporters who should be whining about voter fraud and stuff. Not you and yours.
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