Wisconsin Supreme Court Takes Up Case That Could End With Purge Of 150K Voters | Talking Points Memo

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I did not mean to imply that Wisconsin only has same-day registration.

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Understood and thanks for your response. We can’t rely on same-day registration during a pandemic since already incredibly long lines will stretch into next year. :wink:

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Yeah, I get that, but it’s still an important protection. Anybody purged who doesn’t know it has happened can still show up and be allowed to vote on Election Day.

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Republicans wouldn’t be so hot to purge the rolls if they didn’t think it would give them an electoral advantage.
Also, as others have pointed out, how ironic that the same party that says voting by mail is unsafe have no problem with sending these bogus postcards to verify voter registration.

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I was going to post nearly the same, this guy is out for vengeance after getting trounced in April.
Interesting to note he lost by some 150,000 votes, in the heat of the pandemic, after refusing to postpone the primary, in a state trump squeaked out a 22,000 vote victory in ‘16.
(Also note there was an ® purge of 300,000 voters that year as well.)
I feel this bodes well for November.

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Delay, appeal, delay. Run out the clock. Use imagination. Use dirty tricks, as GOP does. Do whatever it takes.

For example: appeal the decision to take up the case. Go to the Supreme Court. Lose. Start over.

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In other news, water remains alarmingly wet.

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Volvo_Birkenstock said: “The problem with same-day voter registration is the length of the lines during a pandemic.”

True. Remember the Pandemic Primary, April 7.

What I also see (I volunteer for the Dem. Party Wis. as a “Voter Protection Attorney” in inner-city Milwaukee precincts) is that people who THOUGHT they were registered (but have been de-registered) will show up to vote with only their voter I.D. They won’t recognize the need to bring additional documents to establish place of residence to re-register. That means a trip home. And they may never get back in time to vote.

And that’s disenfranchisement. With gerrymandering, the two key GOP strategies, of course.

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A vote to recall the Republican Wisconsin Supreme Court judges in November would be appropriate.

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