GOP calls for vigilantes to suppress wisconsin dem vote

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voter fraud, at least in recent times [leaving out the kennedy folk] is a big fat MYTH promulgated by GOPers who don't have the common decency to admit what is already widely known, I.E. that they don't want democrats to vote. once again, that is a case of them peeing on my leg then telling me it's only raining. I will continue to use that phrase because it tells an essential ground-level truth that can't readily be communicated any other way.

By the way, in my precinct, the election workers once wanted to close the polls about 1 pm instead of 7 pm.

In that case, there was only one voter in the precinct who had not voted -- he was out of town and everyone knew it. There was no possibility that he would make it back in time to vote in that election, but as long as there were any registered voters in the precinct who had not voted, they could not close early.

I've been told that in one election back in the 50s or 60s, not a single vote from my county was included in the state totals. According to the story, whoever was supposed to call the results in simply forgot about it and went home.

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf ... appea.html

Civil rights groups and several African-American churches sued state officials in May over a new state law eliminating "Golden Week," a week-long window when people could both register to vote and cast a ballot in Ohio, and a statewide early, in-person voting schedule that did not include Sundays. Attorneys led by the American Civil Liberties Union successfully argued in U.S. Southern District Court that the reduced number of days burdened low-income and African-American Ohioans who are more likely to take advantage of Golden Week and Sunday voting.
District Court Judge Peter C. Economus agreed, saying the shortened schedule violated the U.S. Constitution and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits voting procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color or membership in an ethnic minority group. He ruled that once Ohio granted a broad scheme of early, in-person voting, state officials could not reduce it in a way that burdened certain groups of voters.
"Early voting does not necessarily play the same role in all jurisdictions in ensuring that certain groups of voters are actually able to vote. Thus, the same law may impose a significant burden in one state and only a minimal burden in another," Circuit Court Judge Karen Nelson Moore wrote in the opinion. Judges Eric L. Clay and Damon J. Keith concurred.
State Sen. Nina Turner, a Cleveland Democrat running against Husted in November's general election, was quick to praise the ruling.
"This ruling affirms what we already know: that attempts to roll back ballot access are misguided and harm hard working Ohioans, people of color, and low income voters," Turner said in a statement. "With only days left until early voting is set to begin, I urge Secretary Husted to respect the court's ruling and work to make sure that Ohioans know when and where they can cast their ballots."

One of the stranger election stories I've run across occurred in another state in an election for the district judge.

One local lawyer in the area was running against the existing district judge. About a month before the election, the existing district judge passed away. That left only the local lawyer in the election.

It would seem like a slam dunk for the lawyer.

The problem was that the lawyer was a wino. The other lawyers in the district began to campaign heavily on behalf of the deceased judge throughout the district and the deceased judge won. Since he had passed away, that left it to the governor of the state to appoint a replacement to be the judge until the next election. He did not appoint the wino.

I'd like to hear the GOP side of this story before I make any comment.