Checking in on the Wisconsin recall...

[Sriad]

I was briefly shocked (I guess I'm still a naive optimist on some level!), then merely resignedly disappointed to learn that the Wisconsin Republicans are playing the recall like the little shits they've been all along... and gratified in turn to see it isn't working.

The short version: because Wisconsin has open primaries (ie you can vote in them whether you're registered to the party or not) a bunch of Republicans ran against the actual Democratic Party nominees, calling themselves Democrats and encouraging Republican voters to come out to the polling stations. The actual recalls were meant to be held today, but by forcing primaries the Republicans delayed their day of reckoning by another month.

Along side that there were robocalls to registered Democratic Party voters encouraging them to apply for absentee ballots and mail them within seven days to ensure your vote is counted... on the day of the election. Real classy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... xTLoxYEcHA

On the bright side, the real candidates crushed their "competition" with an exceptionally large primary election turnout, hopefully a bellwether of the elections to come.

(I know it's customary to link to articles in N&P... but there are a lot of articles out there, none of which seem to hit all points. Here's an article from Salon that hits the high points, though.)

[Crossroads Inc.]

Yeah the level of dirty play here is topping anything done before.

For a part that is always claiming they are out to stop Voter Fraud, they seem to work their asses off doing everything short of committing voter fraud. And sometimes not even then.
Really hope to see their efforts crash and burn, hopefully voters are starting to wise up.

[The Yosemite Bear]

actual "Voter Fraud" a person voting twice, hasn't really existed for decades, now Voter suppression has been going on for over a century.