Fun Facts About Your State

Cross-Posted at Lakeshore Laments by Kevin.

We're No. 2!! We're No.2!!

But not in a good way.

In a report released today, the American Center for Voting Rights Legislative Fund (“ACVR Legislative Fund”) identifies Milwaukee as the number two election fraud “hot spot” in America. The report, “Vote Fraud, Intimidation & Suppression In The 2004 Presidential Election,” is the most comprehensive and authoritative review of the facts surrounding allegations of vote fraud, intimidation and suppression made during the 2004 presidential election. The report lists the top five election fraud “hot spots” in the country based on its findings and the cities’ documented history of fraud and intimidation. ACVR Legislative Fund calls for immediate attention to these areas.

“Election after election, political parties, election officials and the news media act surprised when fraud, intimidation and suppression activities occur. Now everyone is on notice that there’s a problem in Milwaukee and those who don’t participate in a solution will be held accountable,” said Brian Lunde, ACVR Legislative Fund board member.

ACVR Legislative Fund will work with national and state political parties, state legislators and local officials to create a process that supports local election officials in each of these “hot spot” cities and ensures that any effort to continue the historic pattern of fraud and intimidation in the 2006 election is exposed and stopped. Other “hot spots” identified in the report were Philadelphia, Seattle, St. Louis/East St. Louis and Cleveland.

Summary Of Milwaukee Findings:

- Joint federal-local law enforcement task force found “clear evidence of fraud in the Nov. 2 election in Milwaukee,” including hundreds of felon and double voters and thousands more ballots cast than voters recorded as having voted in the city.

-Paid Democrat operatives were charged with slashing tires of 25 Republican get-out-the-vote vans in Milwaukee on the morning of Election Day.

- Four ACORN/Project Vote workers charged with felony election fraud for filling out multiple voter-registration cards using fictitious information.

- Five Wisconsin residents with illegal voting, two people charged with illegally voting while on felony parole or probation, while three others were charged with voting multiple times on Election Day.

- Democrat workers in Milwaukee gave homeless men packs of cigarettes in exchange for absentee votes on Election Day 2000.

- Review of Milwaukee tire slashing incident begins on page 22; City vote fraud/election irregularities section begins on page 68.

ACVR Legislative Fund sent a letter to national political party chairmen Howard Dean and Ken Mehlman today calling on them to identify issues of concern in Milwaukee and other “hot spot” cities by October 1, 2005. ACVR Legislative Fund also called on the national political parties to adopt a zero-tolerance policy against vote fraud and intimidation that commits them to pursuing and fully prosecuting individuals and allied organizations who commit vote fraud or who seek to deter anyone eligible from participating in the election through fraud or intimidation.

“No amount of legislative reform can effectively deter those who commit acts of fraud and intimidation if there is no punishment for the crime and these acts continue to be tolerated,” said Mark F. “Thor” Hearne, ACVR Legislative Fund Counsel. “We must put a stop to vote fraud, intimidation and suppression in Milwaukee for people to regain confidence in our electoral process.”

The report finds that thousands of Americans were disenfranchised by illegal votes cast and a coordinated effort by members of certain “nonpartisan” organizations to rig the election system through voter registration fraud in more than a dozen states. The report further finds that while Democrats routinely accuse Republicans of voter intimidation and suppression, neither party has a clean record on the issue. The report finds that paid Democrat operatives were far more involved in
voter intimidation and suppression activities than were their Republican counterparts during the 2004 presidential election.

The report makes eight key recommendations that, if implemented, will secure the American election system so that all voters will have the ability to participate free of harassment and no legitimate voter will be disenfranchised by an illegal vote.

The State GOP has already jumped on this, as had the Mark Green Campaign in its weekly campaign newsletter (will be online next week at Green's" campaign site).

At last check, SB 42, the State Senate version of the photo ID bill still sits on Doyle's "To Be Vetoed" pile.

Expect the left in this state to either ignore this report or chastise it since they view ACVR as a splinter group to the RNC. They are not.

The last time I mentioned ACVR, I got some pretty interesting fan mail in my comments.