Thursday, May 12, 2005

Wisconsin Voter Fraud

Folkbum has written several posts on the investigation into voter fraud in Wisconsin, particularly right here in Milwaukee, during the last election. (A summary of everything can be found on Daily Kos.) He debunks the argument for voter ID based on the findings of the investigation, since the fraud that was found came in same-day registrations which require voter identification. On the question of requiring voter ID for all voters, he writes
I've seen the conservative half of Wisconsin's bloggers seriously asking the question: Should it be easier for someone to vote than to buy beer? lease an apartment? rent a movie? get a fishing license? The answer, of course, is yes. Voting is not a privilege. Voting is not a right. Voting is a fundamental obligation for people living in a democracy, even a representative one like ours. Any obstacle--whether it be a poll tax or a draconian ID requirement--that keeps people away from the polls is unacceptable. Anyone who tells you that voting should be hard is out to suppress the will of the people. Remember when they finally got the state's biggest lobbyist to admit that more voting would "turn out the wrong people"? This is what the vote suppressors in Wisconsin want--to keep the "wrong people" (read: Democrats) from voting.

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