Funny that this excuse comes up in every contested Republican election.

And yet they are consistently guilty of ELECTION fraud, which is and always will be the main threat in a democratic system.

Bottom line is this. More people vote Democrat than Republican. Republicans know this, so they do two things. One, they, at all times, attempt to minimize the number of total votes by discouraging people from voting, because, statistically, it helps them quite a bit. Two, they constantly harp on about "voter fraud," even though it doesn't happen, to assist with their goals in one, along with the actual election fraud they frequently commit via bogus legal challenges, fucking with voter registration, database tampering and vote swapping in shitty e-voting machines (they have stock in Diebold).

People should have to positively identify themselves in any election anywhere in the US. It eliminates fraud. In my county I have to show my driver's license. Then they check my driver's licence signature against my sign in signature. One time I told the official she knew me. She said she had to follow the law.

So the voters who don't have any ID tend to vote Democrat. Interesting. Just let anyone waltz in and pull a switch. Could be from Mars for all we know. No wonder this country is so screwed up. Probably wouldn't bother anyone if the number of votes exceeded the number of voters. I am a bigger "government leave me alone" than any liberal I know as they are statists and very much into government control but I don't see any government encroachment in presenting a license or some sort of photo ID to vote.

why haven't the people in Wisconsin just committed insurrection yet? People cannot merely be satisfied with recall elections and paperwork

the governor of whiskey is gonna get him self killed sooner or later... they will do anything to stay in power...

This kind of "law" should be illegal. It makes no sense to have a set a laws specifically set up to recall rogue government officials, and then allow those same government officials to write laws that undermine recall laws. This is nothing but an abuse of power and anyone who went along with it should be tarred and feathered. Their audacity (fear?) is astounding.

They always find a way to screw us over time after time.

The main points that the Democratic State Senators have brought up over and over in the debate over this legislation has been the illegality of it. That is the obvious route that this will take, an immediate legal challenge after the law is passed. The next biggest question being, how in the world do the GOP really think that all the training and implementation required for this entirely new voting system can possibly be in place in less than 2 months? If there is a start up cost of $5.7 million (the estimate I have heard) there is no way this will be effectively rolled out in approximately 50 days. But this is how desperate the WI GOP is to hold onto power in the state. They will break as many laws in their wake as they see fit. I can see this one going all the way to the SCOTUS.

Call me crazy but I would think ramming through this kind of voter suppression legislation would just cause even more of a backlash against the six Republicans being recalled. I used to think I understood politics but the power grabs going on in one state after another, including my own state of Ohio, just boggles my mind. Are they that confident that the sheeple will just keep going along with this stuff or are they just breathtakingly arrogant and stupid?

Maybe after the summer recalls these idiotic laws can be tossed in the garbage where they belong.

I certainly hope there is a legal challenge before the Recall Elections. These guys have got to be kick out of office before it's too late. And it's not just in Wisconsin, Texas just passed the same thing and I understand this is something that is happening in all the states run by the GOP. They are all a bunch of crooks working for the highest bidder.

The same lawyer that won the Citizens United case is now involved in the Super PACs that can spend any amount of money without disclosing who their donors are. He claims that he doesn't care if it's legal or not because GOP bascially own the Supreme Court. This is why it is important that a GOP candidate doesn't win the Presidency in 2012, because if they do they will control the next Supreme Court appointees and it will also be hard to get rid of any of the current Judges that should be kicked off the bench.

I propose a two-pronged counter attack:

1. Tie the fucker up in the courts.

2. Massive voter registration drive with ridiculous amounts of overkill.

Republic Syndicate members in Caucus

A--LEC, A--LEC, A--LEC! Hey, Ray, A--LEC!

Hey the end justifies the means! Gain and retain power at any cost. You got to love them!

I heard about this on Rachel and my local news tonight. It's a bunch of Republican bullshit! You can count on there being a legal challenge of this legislation, which will delay implementation. So ridiculous because WI is supposed to be so broke, but the Reps found money for this Voter ID bill. They were able to find money when it comes to keeping people from voting Democratic.

not a surprise,we must be prepared.

Good article, thanks for posting.