Is Wisconsin's Right Wing Attorney General playing politics with election mon

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WIProgressive88 (19 posts)

 
Is Wisconsin's Right Wing Attorney General playing politics with election monitoring?

From The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

A Milwaukee legislator is questioning whether Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is playing politics by assigning election monitors to certain parts of the state to look for instances of voter fraud.

In a letter released to the media, Rep. Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee) wrote that, "simply looking at the list of locations where you are sending and not sending your officers, it is hard to not view this as a political effort. While you plan to send nine teams to the cities of Milwaukee and Madison, you fail to send any of your officers to Washington or Ozaukee Counties, and only one team to Waukesha County."

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"Washington, Ozaukee, and Waukesha Counties are some of the highest turnout counties in the state," Richards said. "Likewise, the cities of Waukesha, Brookfield and New Berlin, within Waukesha County, are major cities that are of comparable size and which deserve the same attention you are giving to Appleton, Wausau, Beloit and La Crosse."

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"Areas with traditionally high Republican turnout deserve the same level of scrutiny that the Department of Justice is giving areas with traditionally high Democratic turnout," Richards said.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/125142736

Holder already will have his nose in all the heavy republican districts this could be to counter balance what the dems are doing. IN other words it's ok for the dems but not the repukes.

HooptieWagon (3,002 posts)
1. In a word yes.

It sure looks like an attempt to intimidate Dem voters and poll watchers. I hope the monitors that the DOJ are suposedly sending are on the ball.

I'm sure all the white hispanics who show up to vote will be heavily scrutinized. 

[delilahmused]

Why should it matter if there's nothing hinky going on?

Cindie

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Just an efficient use of resources as those are where those ballots keep getting found and 120% of registered voter turn out happen.

BTW, I feel much better now that Barry the destroyer has endorsed Barrett by tweet. That should be good for adding a point and a half to Walker.

[Skul]

Doesn't matter one bit how many "observers" they have.
When the voter steps into that little cubical, it's private.