Wisconsin clerk feared early voting site helping Democrats

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The city clerk in Green Bay refused to set up an early voting site on a college campus in part because she feared the site would help Democrats, according to emails obtained by a liberal advocacy group.

The emails show City Clerk Kris Teske citing the potential partisan advantage, along with concerns about ballot security, costs and staffing issues, in refusing to establish the early voting site at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus. One Wisconsin Institute provided the emails to The Associated Press on Tuesday, after the Nation first reported about them.

Teske pointed to statutes that prohibit early voting sites that give a political party an advantage. The emails show that state Rep. Eric Genrich, a Green Bay Democrat, was pressing Teske to approve the university voting site, but she refused, saying that people could vote early at City Hall.

“UWGB is a polling location for students and residents on Election Day but I feel by asking for this to be the site for early voting is encouraging the students to vote more than benefiting the city as a whole,” Teske wrote in the Aug. 26 email. “I have heard it said that students lean more toward the democrats and he (Genrich) is a democrat … Do I have an argument about it being more of a benefit to the democrats?”

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2016/10/25/wisconsin-clerk-feared-early-voting-site-helping-democrats/

[ananda]

1. Ugly ugly ugly.

She should be fired asap!

[mpcamb]

9. First drag her sorry butt into court for some public humiliation.

Do it today, not after the election.

[Angry Dragon]

13. yes

[allan01]

2. aggreed .

[groundloop]

3. Right there's your rigged elections... repubs win by suppressing the vote

[Adrahil]

4. Totally rigged system folks! Believe me!! NT

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. It's a about the thousand tiny cuts

Pulling these little tactics all across the country

[Stuart G]

6. This one will be read from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea...from Hawaii to Alaska and more.

.......refusal to establish a voting site at a large university campus.....

........."I have heard it said that students lean more toward the democrats...Teske wrote in the Aug 26 email.....:
.................??????????? ...

total enrollment ......Total enrollment: 6,665 (2011)

this is about rigged elections..., and will define the Republican Party forever...............

[knightmaar]

8. Wisconsin is actually polling 50% - 42% towards Democrat

So opening any polling station would necessarily favour Democrats.

Better close 'em all!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

21. Shhhhhhhhhhhhh....

You'll give them ideas!

[Raster]

10. How do you win an election if the cornerstone of your platform is failed ideology?

You do everything you can to suppress the vote and inhibit valid, legal and lawful voters from casting their ballots.

The two main differences between Republicans and Democrats: Democrats invest large amount of time, money and resources to encourage and enable electors to vote. The Republicans invest large amounts of time, money and resources discouraging lawful voters from voting. Voter suppression, thy name is Republican.

[graegoyle]

11. Allowing more legal voters to vote tends to benefit Democrats almost EVERYWHERE!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Typical Republican bullshit.

[ThoughtCriminal]

20. Maybe if they had a platform that appealed to educated people

they would not consider a college a hostile environment.

[Jimbo S]

14. Basically a commuter school

The campus is on the outskirts of the city. Not sure if a bus line runs out to it, therefore placing an extra hurdle to early vote at City Hall. OTOH, not sure if setting up early voting at a college is a right or a privilege.

[LanternWaste]

16. It's part and parcel of a process to allow as many eligible voters as possible to vote

"not sure if setting up early voting at a college is a right or a privilege..."

It's part and parcel of a process to allow as many eligible voters as possible to vote within their community.

[Jimbo S]

22. They are allowed to vote

Pretty sure there's a polling place right on campus on election day.

[Bradical79]

15. Might be right, but I think the clerk should need better reasoning.

An official explaining that sort of decision with "I heard..." and "I feel..." is a piss poor argument. Unless you're Newt Gingrich.

[lame54]

17. Somebody get O'Keefe down there to film it

[ananda]

18. Lol

Good one!

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. Polling place that give a political party and advantage

I know this is talking about early voting locations, but I can remember when voting mostly took place at school sites.

Now I can't remember the last time my polling place was not at a church. For that matter, very few were not at a conservative fundamentalist evangelical protestant church. Another reason I vote early.