Saturday, October 18, 2014

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


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The GAB didn't investigate complaints the last federal election. Why would they now?

Anonymous said...

The GAB didn't investigate complaints the last federal election. Why would they now?

Anonymous said...

I think this time the Feds would investigate any complaints.

Anonymous said...

James Rowen, you might want to list the Waukesha # as well. somebody should be keeping a close watch on idiot first-class Kathy Nickolaus.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said... somebody should be keeping a close watch on idiot first-class Kathy Nickolaus.
October 18, 2014 at 8:37 PM

Nickolaus is no longer the Waukesha County clerk and has landed a Town Clerk position in the Town of Waukesha. As a resident of the Town, I will NOT be voting early so as to have the opportunity to feed my ballot into the machine personally. Early voting is done by filling out a ballot, then sealing that ballot in an envelope with the Clerk making sure the ballot is sealed properly. I don't want my ballot hanging around the Town office for 1 - 2 weeks while Kathy figures out how to lose it.