UW-M prof predicts emergency session to pass new voter ID law

[lutefisk]

Professor Mordecai Lee of UW- Milwaukee predicts that Fitzgerald and Vos will call an emergency session to pass a new voter ID bill using the exact language of the Indiana voter ID bill (which has held up in court). They could actually force this through before November 4. All it would take to become law is Walker's signature.

He discusses it just after the 19 minute mark on the video:
http://wpt.org/Here_and_Now/analysis-oct-10-wba-gubernatorial-debate

[shraby]

1. Isn't there a rule that they can't screw with the voting process within so many days of the election

Seems I read it someplace.

[Nictuku]

2. They consider it an 'Emergency' to prevent voters from voting?

[postulater]

3. Well, then we may just call an emergency

meet-up of 100,000 Wisconsin citizens to Madison to voice an opinion.

We did it before.

[bluestateguy]

5. And it failed

The white men in suits just laughed at you and did it anyway.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. Evil

[Scuba]

6. +1

[Doctor_J]

8. Yep

I think at some point we're going to have to take matters into our own hands, or just give up. I big chance was missed when Bush v. Gore did not result in summary justice against The Five. Some sot of "protest" along those lines is going to be necessary. There is no legal recourse against these people.

[riversedge]

7. Wonder if the county clerks and workers will throw up their

hands and walk of the job if that happens. Not holding my breath on that one. But GAB has already shut down their educational arm once the SC ruled.

[riversedge]

9. Wis Republicans Will Still Try to Enforce Voter ID in Spite of Supreme Court Decision

Here is another article on this issue:




Wis Republicans Will Still Try to Enforce Voter ID in Spite of Supreme Court Decision http://ln.is/www.dailykos.com/sto/I3zZo … #wipolitics #wiunion


Fri Oct 10, 2014 at 10:48 AM PDT

Wis Republicans Will Still Try to Enforce Voter ID in Spite of Supreme Court Decision

by PuddytatFollow

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Republicans just don't take NO for an answer.

The Voter ID Law in Wisconsin was blocked late last night by the US Supreme Court, but JB Van Hollen, Wisconsins Republican Attorney General is still scheming to put it in place for the November 4 mid term election.

The 6-3 vote means in all likelihood the requirement to show ID at the polls will not be in effect for the election. But Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said he would seek ways to reinstate the law within the month.

But Van Hollen said his office "will be exploring alternatives to address the court's concern and have voter ID on election day."

"I believe the voter ID law is constitutional, and nothing in the court's order suggests otherwise," the second-term Republican said in his statement.

Van Hollen knows that the gerrymandering Republicans rammed through doesn't help statewide elections. In 2012 he saw Wisconsin vote for Barack Obama by a margin of 6 points and elect Tammy Baldwin to the US Senate. All that gerrymandering only helps them pack Republican butts into seats in the State Legislature and House of Representatives.

To win statewide, they need to stop Democratic voters from the ballot box and that's where all their voter oppression laws came in.......