Sign this petition..not enough ballots in Milwaukee

[shraby]

I just signed a petition to Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, demanding that he give the city of Milwaukee sufficient ballots for the November 2 election. We must protect democracy wherever forces attempt to suppress and disenfranchise voters.

After receiving only 679,000 ballots -- less than the city was given in 2000 and 2002 -- Milwaukee's mayor, expecting major turnout in this election, asked the County Executive for more ballots. "No way," said the county, telling the Associated Press that election-fraud "'chaos' could occur at understaffed polling places where voters could grab ballots."

<http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=17242>

[Lefty48197]

1. Here's a link to a story about election fraud that's already happening

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-10-14-registration_x.htm

"Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, a local co-chairman of Sen. John Kerry's campaign, wants the county to print 938,000 ballots, far more than the usual number, to accommodate a flood of new voters. But County Executive Scott Walker, a local co-chairman of President Bush's re-election campaign, is giving the city 679,000 ballots — 10,000 more than were printed for the last presidential election. He says having a large number of excess ballots would be an opportunity for fraud. Local District Attorney Mike McCann plans to deploy more than 30 lawyers on Nov. 2 to mediate polling-place disputes. He says "malevolent challenges" by partisans could interfere with voting."

Considering that voting registration is up by about 10% in many places, this is an obvious attempt to hold down the (Black) vote in Milwaukee. We need to get the NAACP or Congressional Black Caucus involved in this issue right away. Stuff like this is probably happening in a lot of other places too. Most, problems won't become apparent until election evening.

[Demit]

2. done.