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Wis. AG will appeal voter ID ruling

By ASSOCIATED PRESS   Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 8:39 p.m.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says he will appeal a Madison judge’s ruling blocking Wisconsin’s new voter identification law.

Republicans passed a bill last year that requires all voters to show photo identification at the polls. The Milwaukee branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera sued, arguing the law creates burdens for voters.

Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan sided with the groups, ruling the law impairs the right to vote.

Van Hollen said in a statement Wednesday he believes the law is constitutional and it isn’t burdensome to require voters produce identification.

Another Madison judge has blocked the law in a separate lawsuit filed by the League of Women Voters. Van Hollen is appealing that decision, too.




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RetiredAirForce
Jul 19, 2012 at 11:18 p.m.
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Interesting how the same left wing parrots can't answer a simple question. Our government gathers stats for crimes everyday http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr... . Yet some people think those that vote just decide to follow the law during that aspect of their life; magical.

The fact remains voter fraud is nearly impossible to stop and find under present laws. The reason people get speeding tickets is they are caught in the act. On voting day there is no legal way for anyone ask a person to verify who they are, so fraud is undetectable by design. Registration fraud can be found after the fact through address verification, but if the vote was cast it is never removed.

It is impossible to ascertain the understanding lemmings have who believe their party line over ID when the supreme court has already ruled on like cases and found there is no undue burden and states have the rights to ensure elections are correct.

Still waiting for the previous simple question to be answered and the other one that has never been, submit proof of voter suppression from any state that has voter ID laws already in place.

usaret
Jul 19, 2012 at 11:27 a.m.
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Voter fraud to some is when their candidate didn't win.

KilgoreTrout
Jul 19, 2012 at 10:43 a.m.
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The "Nation of Moochers" will do anything, anything, in order to win elections. We need voter ID.

garyprimer
Jul 19, 2012 at 9:43 a.m.
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"Bombing Suspect Had Fake US ID"
A Bulgarian had a fake Michigan driver's license.
So much for security in photo ID.

JCK
Jul 19, 2012 at 9 a.m.
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The end result of all of this as obvious as the nose on your face. If he is denied by the appeals court the AG will simply take the matter to the state Supreme Court where he will get the law enacted. They might as well simply ask the state Supreme Court to take the matter up right now and save the time and money it's going to cost screwing around at the lower levels. Enacting the law is inevitable. What Walker and his cronies want, Walker and his cronies get.

osborn4
Jul 19, 2012 at 8:54 a.m.
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Look at what happend in Racine and tell me we don't need this.

You have to show photo ID to buy Sudafed.

You have to show photo id to get into the Dept of Justice building in DC.

You have to show photo ID to vote in Labor Union votes.

But you don't have to to show photo ID to vote?

yada
Jul 19, 2012 at 7:47 a.m.
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RE: Dwight..."So what,it's not illegal" - Your thinking is what is wrong. Walker wants jobs for WI - so he hires an out of state firm...duh. If you cannot figure out that the taking of foreclosure money by Walker & AG is wrong - you are a sad basket case. Wake up dude...and I thought RAF was slow.....lol

http://jonathanturley.org/2012/02/12/gov...

Professor
Jul 19, 2012 at 7:41 a.m.
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RAF--What's astounding is how easy it is to show how this was a solution in search of a problem. How much time/money was spent on this, when the R's were yelling "Laser focus on jobs!"? Groups like ALEC don't spend this amount of time/money to stop the .00002% of fraud at the polls. That's not even addressing the issue that what little fraud that was able to be documented, won't at all be affected by the disenfranchising laws the R's found necessary to pass.

westorbust
Jul 19, 2012 at 7:20 a.m.
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Maybe RAF can point to any evidence NOT produced by far fight organizations that show that voter fraud has ever been a widespread problem, significantly effected the outcome of an election, and was so dangerous that it warrants the passage of one of the strictest voting laws in the U.S.? You won't produce any evidence, because there isn't any. Astounding how these people can't wait to pass more laws, then cry wolf at government overreach in other areas. So as long as it jives with their belief systems, by golly, lets jam some more laws down our throats, right? There is 0 evidence it was a problem to begin with. Election fraud? Yes, but these goofy bills do nothing to address that, of course.

DwightKSchrute
Jul 19, 2012 at 7:19 a.m.
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yada - so what? It's not illegal.

yada
Jul 19, 2012 at 7:01 a.m.
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Maybe the AG needs the help & support of the same OUT OF STATE public relations firm that Scott Walker hired during his recall. Walker took TEN grand from his $160,000 CRIMINAL DEFENSE FUND for this. If the AG needs more money to finance his crusade - maybe some of the 26 Million dollars of the MORTGAGE MONEY that they took from the 140 million is left.

http://m.host.madison.com/wsj/news/local...

http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/c...

http://www.wisn.com/Spiritual-Leaders-Cr...

(At least Walker could have hired an in state firm)

http://www.fdlreporter.com/viewart/20120...
http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/latest-ne...

helge1939
Jul 19, 2012 at 6:25 a.m.
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Van Hollen needs to do his job. This is not his job
I will show my ID. to vote

eyeball
Jul 19, 2012 at 5:07 a.m.
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If you don't like the new law you should go after the folks who ran A.C.O.R.N.. They started the mess that prompted this legislation.

prca3283
Jul 19, 2012 at 3:44 a.m.
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Mandarin

janesvillecomments
Jul 19, 2012 at 1:32 a.m.
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RetiredAirForce, how about this for an explanation: Breaking the other laws results in personal gain for the law-breaker. With our current two-party system, either way you vote you end up with a loser. Why bother cheating when you lose either way?

I hope our collapse as a world empire is as gentle (domestically) as the British empire's downfall. I only wonder if the new world language will be Arabic or Mandarin?

freedomfighter608
Jul 19, 2012 at 12:16 a.m.
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A few years ago, out of state unions voted in Milwaukee by using a hotel address for state elections. The city DA is charging them with vote fraud, so there is/was vote fraud going on. I am all for showing my ID for voting, because I have to show it to buy alcohol, at the bank, etc.

RetiredAirForce
Jul 19, 2012 at 12:08 a.m.
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Still waiting for a single person to state how the same human nature that leads people to break other laws like speeding, tax fraud, govt workers breaking laws, politicians breaking laws, killers, thieves, muggers, and the like somehow think that when it comes to voting, magically, people follow the law. Astounding how irrational that is.

dtb
Jul 18, 2012 at 11:41 p.m.
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Van Hollen is a political hack - his salary is a sunk cost anyway, so he sees no reason not to spend his time doing something he thinks is useful to Walker and the Kochs. What he knows about constitutional law could fit on a 3x5 card.

wortnik
Jul 18, 2012 at 10:40 p.m.
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Quit wasting the taxpayers money and your valuable time chasing this non-existent problem down the rabbit hole.
The GAB this week came out and said as much, most of the discrepancies they found where minor clerical errors. No evidence of illegal voter fraud.
C'mon get real Wisconsin. Solve real problems - we sure have enough of them.

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