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Ok Russ Feingold. You’re back on the naughty list.

October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

What kind of fool would want Wisconsin’s miserable history of same-day voter registration to go nationwide?
Russ Feingold, that’s who.
His press release swears the plan would
help increase voter turnout and voters would not have to worry about sitting an election out because they missed a registration deadline.
No, it increases voter fraud. If you really want [...]

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Tags: Brookfield · Wisconsin · voter id

Voting information in Wisconsin

October 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Well, this is newsworthy. “Casper” sent me the following recently:
Thought this might interest you. After reading your post on voting in WI and the accompanying posts I thought it would be interesting to view your sample ballot. But alas, one must have a name, address, and birth date. Dead end. Almost. Went to Google [...]

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Voting absentee in Wisconsin

October 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Forget Ohio, Wisconsin voters can have an early say, too. If you want to take all the thrill out of election day, you can vote now. In fairness, some people will be traveling – like the spouse – that day and need to make arrangements. In Wisconsin, it’s easy! There’s never a need to prove [...]

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Tags: Brookfield · Wisconsin · the race for president · voter id

Brookfield’s official stance on voter verification

September 23rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

**Keep in mind, Flaherty works as a political appointee of Mayor Jeff Speaker now. There’s no more independence between the attorney’s office and the mayor’s.
From the city attorney:
Over the past several days there has been a great deal of discussion and
media attention regarding local municipal compliance with the Federal Help
America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). [...]

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An update on Brookfield’s voter registration confusion

September 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

There was a meeting at city hall today to discuss how the Mayor will respond to the Republican call for verifying voter registration. Initial information suggests Mayor Jeff Speaker will not enforce the federal law. Aldermen are suggesting that Brookfield needs to be a leader for this issue. If other communities see Brookfield failing to [...]

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