I love it. Michael Moore is going to be fired up with Project Gaslight again…filming all those dummies and putting them on the screen Borat style. What a bunch of schmucks.

But while this sounds like a great bill, I’ll be very unsurprised if the Democrats don’t find sympathetic federal judges (and probably the DOJ too) to snarl this up in the courts for years, certainly through the 2012 election.

Demorats don’t really care that they left, or stayed. What they “felt” about their actions is irrelevant. Emails between national union leadership and the demorats proved one thing, they did what they were told to do by their union puppet masters. Period.

The primary should be the 2nd Tuesday in May.
The general election for ALL state offices should be the 2nd Tuesday in July. This will address the lazy & led student problem. Elections in fair weather should help the poor and elderly get to the polls more easily. Students who are actually citizens of the college towns can easily vote there and those back home working for the summer may easily vote in their home district without the suffering the horrible pain of obtaining an absentee ballot. Of course the college profs who run for city councils might miss some of the votes of their students.
The primary for the fall federal elections could be held at the same time as the State general election in July; this would provide ample time for military ballot provisioning for the November federal election, as would the May primary for the State July election.
Better weather; poor can walk to polls; no elderly slip and falls; students in home districts; people who can afford a vacation out of town can handle voting absentee before they leave.
WIN; WIN; WIN; WIN!

If money is not involved, then no quorum needed.
Even if they run, it wouldn’t do no god for them.

Maybe they should start with the Obama Admin as well. Wonder what they’d discover?

for the brave souls behind the cheddar curtain funneling this information back to us.

….as Milwaukee Democrat Tamara Grigsby helpfully points out. It’s good she cleared that up. I guess she thinks her constituents aren’t able to tell the difference between legislation and violent acts.

Here’s the whole quote…

“We may not be hosing someone down or lynching someone by this action today, but we’re certainly limiting their ability to take a part in what is their constitutional right and responsibility. And that is vote,” said Grigsby. “And I thought I lived in the state that had worked so hard to be the progressives on that. To be the leaders on that.”

…and I keep coming back to that word…may.

In any case…the quote was a freebie. These passages are what I was looking for.

The plan would also narrow the window for early voting in clerks’ offices to two weeks before an election, down from the current month. It would cut off early voting the Friday before an election rather than the day before.

The photo ID requirement would not take effect until next year, but the plan would begin immediately to require someone to live in Wisconsin for 28 days before they can vote in a non-presidential election. Right now the requirement is 10 days.

There’s more to it than Voter ID.

are a purely state matter. There is no Federal rule on how long one must live in a particular precinct or other voting district to be eligible to vote in a non-Federal election. The 28 day rule is very interesting. I would bet a lot of money that most college kids do not arrive in town more than a couple of days before the start of a semester. Does that have an impact on whether or not they can vote? If the vote takes place between June and early September, I would guess it does.

Georgia enacted a voter ID law a few years ago, only to be struck down by one lefty federal judge.

So get ready for the inevitable legal action in defense by “the poor.”

Sheboygan?

I’m more concerned about Waukegan, Dubuque, Rockford, etc.

The bill is OK but does not go far enough. First, it does not end same day voter registration which is something that should be done. There should be at least a 30 day and I would argue a 60 day registration period.

Second, there should be something outlawing third party registration from groups like ACORN or whatever they call themselves these days.

challenged in the judicial system, the Governor and Legislature, and as soon as the lawsuit is filed, use their US Constitutional authority to pursue the case directly to the US Supreme Court. Don’t give the Dems the chance to shop for a liberal judge and drag it out.

Joe Biden’s state (and mine), Delaware, requires photo ID to vote and no one makes much noise about it. It is just part of going to vote.

So all states wanting photo ID (this bill in Wisconsin and the other in Minnesota right now) should name the bills something like “The Joe Biden equivalency Voting Rights bill” or some such nonsense. Point out that if the very blue state of Delaware does it, why can’t we? Then see what happens.

And since when can students vote in elections where they go to college (especially non-state residents)? My kids all went out of state for college and had to vote absentee at home. They weren’t allowed to be ‘residents’ of the state where they attended school until they finished college and established real residency with an address and job.

Next session, our senate dictator held it up to “help the poor as well”

Fl has had this requirement for quite some time due to the FUBAR election of 2000. It works quite well here and even if a person doesn’t have a picture ID, they can still vote even if they aren’t on the list. They cast a provisional ballot which is examined by the canvassing board after the election.

Even with the huge voter turnout in 2008 with over 8 million votes cast, only 35K provisional votes were turned in statewide. So people who say that picture ID at the precinct is holding down voter turnout are daffy.