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Saturday, January 15, 2005

Possible Massive Voter Fraud in Milwaukee

It is becoming apparent that the election was not as clean in Wisconsin as we had all first thought. The vandalism of vans the Republicans had rented to take voters to the polls not withstanding, it now seems that there was huge problems with same day registration votes in Milwaukee County. For more detail, see the coverage at My View of the World and Boots & Sabers. In a nut shell, the election board must send out address verification cards immediately after the election to people who registered at the polls. Instead, they waited 2 months. On top of that, 75,000 people registered at the polls. Almost 10,000 of those had illegible cards which could not be verified. That does not include any of the cards which will be coming back from non existant addresses. Bush has won this election, but it now appears possible that Wisconsin really was a red state in 2004. He had a lead in some polls going into the election, and he lost by a little more than 11,000 votes. The fraudluent vote count in Milwaukee could conceivably have more than made up that gap.

Journal Sentinel coverage of the story is here.

CORRECTION
The election in Wisconsin was decided by a little over 11,000 votes, not 18,000 as previously stated.

(Cross posted at Jiblog)