Van Hollen says his office is moving forward with appeals of blocked voter ID law.

[midnight]

MADISON, Wis. — Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says he is very concerned about voter fraud as six recall elections near, including one targeting fellow Republican, Gov. Scott Walker.

Van Hollen was asked about fraud concerns Friday given that the state's law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls has been blocked by two Dane County judges. The state Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up the case, making it unlikely that the law will be reinstated before the May 8 primary or June 5 general election.

Van Hollen says voter fraud is always a risk and he has no reason to believe it's any less of a concern in the recalls. He says his office is moving forward with appeals of the lawsuits as quickly as possible.

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/578f90e915f34c12b4d9617c7ff42f6f/WI--Voter-ID/


This story was linked from:http://scottwalkerwatch.com/2012/04/18/walker-at-nra-meeting-outshadows-romney-while-nugent-goes-crazy/

[AllyCat]

1. I'm concerned about voter fraud too since when it does happen, it seems to be Repukes

that do it (those with two residences and the like). But since it doesn't happen much, and voter suppression laws do, well, suppress the vote, I'll take a few cheaters protected so the rest can vote Mr. Van Hollen. If you are so concerned, how about looking into that rampant ELECTION fraud? What? You say that means Republicans can't cheat? Oh. I see...jerk.

[midnight]

2. When it comes to election fraud here in Wisconsin it gets dismissed as human error!

Over and over and over.....

[AllyCat]

4. And often by the same human :)

[leftyohiolib]

5. well she's gone now isnt she?

kathy i-just-found-the-winning-number-of-votes-in-my-pocket nicklaus

[DCKit]

7. Yeah, but the systems are still in place, all over the country. nt

[AllyCat]

8. I thought she only agreed to let her deputy do it for the recalls,

then she is back in business (if she actually steps back in the first place).

[midnight]

10. Looks like she is going to be going through her own re-election later this year. So hopefully she

she won't be back in business...

"Her decision to recuse herself from the May 8th recall primaries and June 5th recall general elections comes on the heels of yet another embarrassing election administration failure this past Tuesday by the controversial County Clerk in one of the Badger State's most Republican counties.

According to Vrakas' statement, the elected Nickolaus --- who will face her own re-election contest later this year --- was given two choices by the County Executive, either resign or step aside for the upcoming recall elections.

"In a meeting this afternoon I presented two options to Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus," Vrakas' statement reads, "resignation, or designating the deputy clerk to run the upcoming recall election."

"Kathy agreed to hand off her election duties to the deputy county clerk in order to avoid my public call for her resignation," says Vrakas. "In stepping aside, Kathy also agreed to allow outside consultants and county staff to work side-by-side with the deputy clerk to help restore confidence in our election process. The county will move swiftly to examine the election night procedures in the County Clerk’s Office and make changes as necessary to restore public’s confidence in our elections."http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9236

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Voter fraud? Like the Romneys voting in MA while not being residents of the state?

[Worried senior]

6. He's another miserable republican

who goes along with all of walker's ideas. Time to get him out of office too.

[Scuba]

9. This asshat didn't even win the office he holds without election fraud...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x874134

20,000 more votes than ballots (Waukesha county, 2006)


And now he wants to suppress the vote because of six ten-thousands of one percent voter fraud...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002135119


He needs to go.

[midnight]

11. Good information that needs to be revisited-thanks.

BIG UPDATE!!
In this 2006 election, Van Hollen won the election for Attorney General with these numbers:

1,065,453 - Van Hollen (R)
1,056,594 - Falk (D)

A difference of 8,859 votes STATEWIDE.

Waukesha county, Kathy Nickolaus' playground, reports 17,243 more votes cast for the Attorney General race in Waukesha county than there were total number of ballots cast.

How many more of those "extra" 17,243 votes were for Van Hollen than were for Kathleen Falk?? I'm guessing it's somewhere right about 8,900 votes.