Mayor Daily in Milwaukee 

In case you're not aware... Milwaukee has been caught up in an election scandal of our own. Apparently we just didn't want to get left out of the fun going on in Washington and Ohio. What's going on is that people are finally realizing the consequences to insanely liberal voter registration laws that have been on the books for years.

Boots & Sabers has been rounding up coverage quite nicely, and the Captain's Quarters is also talking about it today.

Here's what it boils down to. Milwaukee County's voter turnout was frankly far too large, as was the number of election day registrations. Wisconsin begs, and I mean begs for illegal voting. In the state of Wisconsin, in order to vote, all you need to do is come to your polling place with proof of residence in that district. That's it. That's all it takes. No photo identification is required. There are no checks to see if you are registered from an old address in another precinct, which allows for double voting quite easily.

What counts as a proof of address you ask? The common one mentioned is a utility bill, but a pay stub will also suffice. In fact, it has been found that many people used proof of residence for the same location that was an empty lot! Of course we're just finding out about all this now. The number of fraudulent votes is so high in Milwaukee County alone, that it accounts for Kerry's margin of victory for the entire state! This doesn't even include Madison which isn't being talked about yet. Madison is even more liberal than Milwaukee, and a big college town. I'm willing to bet good money that similar irregularities could easily be found there.

What always bugged me was that nobody ever asked me to prove who I was when I went to vote, even if I was registered. When I walk up to the table, I simply give them my address. They look me up in their book... they tell me my name... I say yes, and they hand me a ballot. How easy would it be for me to canvas several precincts early in the morning with some addresses and vote in someone else's stead? How hard would it be for them to ask for a photo ID, or at the very least require me to say my name and verify it with what's in the book, instead of telling it to me? Jesus... we're talking about basic stuff here.

So much for one person one vote eh?

Update: I knew I had blogged on this before! Here is what I wrote among other things on election night:

I think one of the more interesting races to watch was Wisconsin's. We were a Gore state in 2000 by a very slim margin. A lot of people thought early that Wisconsin would break Bush. I never thought that. I've watched a number of Wisconsin presidential returns and this followed the pattern exactly. Wisconsin returns always start Republican... then gradually pick up Democratic steam and finally break Democrat later in the game. Not only that, but Wisconsin has some of the easiest voter registration laws around. We beg, and I mean seriously beg people to commit voter fraud, it's so easy. And in this race, I think more people were willing to commit fraud for Kerry than Bush. And I do think there was some fraud in Wisconsin.