In narrow vote, Senate backs ending early voting on weekends (WIS)

[Ellipsis]

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Madison — After being blocked by Democrats a day earlier, Republican state senators on Wednesday approved bills to end weekend voting before elections and allow election clerks to draw poll workers from wider areas.

Under a bill, approved by a one-vote margin, early voting in clerks' offices could occur only on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. Clerks would not be able to hold early voting during all of that period because they would be limited to allowing a total of 45 hours of early voting a week.

Democrats told Republicans they saw the move as an effort to suppress voting by their supporters "I feel like I'm in 1906, fighting the fights that people who came long before me had to fight," said Sen. Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee), who is African-American. "I would argue it screams of backward-thinking mentality, all the way back to Jim Crow and you should be ashamed."

Republicans did not speak on the merits of the bill Wednesday, but have said the measure would level the playing field for urban and rural areas because rural clerks don't have the staff to keep the long hours that cities do.

Senators approved the measure 17-16, with Sen. Dale Schultz (R-Richland Center) joining all Democrats in opposing the bill. The measure now goes to the Assembly, which already has approved a different version of the proposal.

Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/senate-back-in-session-after-democrats-delayed-key-votes-b99223756z1-249764691.html source

---

Same shit different day... Suppress the vote cuz you can't win legitimately.

[filterfreeradio]

1. More Voter Suppression in New Jersey - We Interview Chad Peace on 3/10/14

Filter Free Radio's Jacob Dean interviews Chad Peace, President of IVC Media LLC, the National Legal Strategist and Legal Advisor to the Independent Voter Project, and co-founder of the EndPartisanship.org coalition about their lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey "demanding that every voter should have an equal and meaningful vote at every stage of the state-funded election process, regardless of their party affiliation or non-affiliation."

This from EndPartisanship.org...
"Over 47% of New Jersey voters choose not to register with a political party and 42% of American voters now self-identify as Independent or unaffiliated voters, yet most states have primary systems that give political parties special access to the voting franchise and penalize voters who do not wish to join a political party..."

This from the actual complaint, "...By denying over 2.6 million New Jersey voters the right to cast a vote in the primary election, the State has disenfranchised nearly half of its electorate, and thereby, given private political parties and partisan voters a greater and unequal access to the voting franchise. As a result, New Jersey's elections are not free, not equal, and not constitutional for the reasons demonstrated herein."

[link:

|]

[mtasselin]

2. whatever

Walker is so corrupt and he will do whatever he has to do to get elected. When he is done with this you can bet your ass that the Koch brothers have something else up their sleeve. The hope that Wisconsin has is that the Democrats have a great candidate with Mary Burke and the people of Wisconsin have had enough of the corruption that this asshole surrounds himself with and they throw his ass out if the John Doe investigation doesn't get him first.

[hue]

3. Indeed I'm soo sick of this!!! It's a nightmare that never ends!!

[ForgoTheConsequence]

4. Not the same Wisconsin anymore.

They chose Walker, twice. They chose a Tea Party clown over Russ Feingold. It's sad what's happening in a place that was once the beacon of midwestern progressivism.

[Turbineguy]

5. Not unreasonable.

The less people vote the better chance repubs have of winning. This way they don't have to do outright fraud to get into power.

[Cal33]

6. That sicko is getting away with pure evil! He always has been this way. It's

the only way he can succeed in "winning."

[blkmusclmachine]

7. The GOP can't win on the merits, so they've gotta cheat/stack the deck.

[chuckstevens]

8. But the Republicans love freedom & America more than anyone?

It's simple folks: If you can win on the ideas, CHEAT! How any moron with half a pulse can vote for these Republican assholes is beyond me?