This is Good to Know

Remember, it's all bureaucratic errors and poor poll worker training the Democrats and Jim Doyle keep telling us. Nothing to do with the laws currently on the books.

The GAO, General Accounting Office, Congress's Auditing Arm says otherwise.

"GAO's determination that states have put in place few safeguards to verify citizenship is dismaying given the millions of people here illegally," said Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. "It's past time states get busy cleaning up their voter records -- especially in my home state of Wisconsin."

The GAO said that Wisconsin does not have a system in place that lets local election officials receive state felony conviction information. And Wisconsin was the only state in the survey that did not use State Vital Statistics information on dead people to match against voter lists, the GAO said.

Last month, a task force looking into potential voter fraud in Milwaukee found that more than 200 felons voted illegally, people voted twice or used fake names and addresses in more than 100 instances, and some people used dead peoples' names to cast their ballots.

This week, two people -- one on probation and the other on parole -- were charged with voting in last year's election.

Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside come Election Day.