Feds lay down the law for Nov. 4th WI voting

I hope that Wisconsin Attorney General, Supreme Court denier and voter ID last-man-standing J. B. Van Hollen - - and anyone else still suggesting voters need an ID to cast a ballot, or are otherwise interfering with the franchise on November 4th - - has read and takes to heart this statement out of the US Attorney's Office in Madison last week:

Federal law protects against such crimes as intimidating or bribing voters, buying and selling votes, impersonating voters, altering vote tallies, stuffing ballot boxes, and marking ballots for voters against their wishes or without their input. It also contains special protections for the rights of voters and provides that they can vote free from acts that intimidate or harass them. For example, actions of persons designed to interrupt or intimidate voters at polling places by questioning or challenging them, or by photographing or videotaping them, under the pretext that these are actions to uncover illegal voting, may violate federal voting rights law...

Complaints about possible violations of the federal voting rights laws can be made directly to the Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section in Washington by phone at 1-800-253-3931 or (202) 307-2767, by fax at (202) 307-3961, by email to voting.section@usdoj.gov, or by complaint form athttp://www.justice.gov/crt/complaint/votintake/index.php.

This is why there is a need for polling place observers.

The ACLU of Wisconsin can provide more information.

In Milwaukee, here's where volunteers should go first thing Monday:

Dan Puhek, Election Worker Coordinator - 414-286-3957, dpuhek@milwaukee.gov