In the upside down world of the Wisconsin right, today's report that a lefty group has busted workers who submitted false voter registrations will be taken as further evidence of the left's intent to commit voter fraud.
Meanwhile, the RPW's claim from four years ago that Milwaukee is occupied by a small army of phantom voters -- the claim that ignited the current voter fraud debate -- has never been acknowledged as false.
Surely Brawler readers recall in 2004 when the RPW claimed a caging program had found 5,619 phantom voters on the rolls and demanded they be purged. A claim made just days before the election, it was an obvious PR stunt designed to poison the well and whip up the right.
But can you guess how many of those folks were questionable: Try 66.
That was pointed out in the Milwaukee Police Department "voter fraud" report that the RPW loves to cite so much.
From a previous Brawler report:
Remember its claims of 5,619 invalid addresses in 2004? According to the police report the RPW likes to cite, "the database used by the RPW ... contained an error in the address field, causing valid addresses to be unrecognized." Whoops! Was that a bug or a feature? Did Sykes talk about this?
As it turns out, a whopping 61 of the addresses were invalid. The report says 66 people voted under irregular conditions. Conditions include -- though not numerically delineated -- voting from an address where they did not live ( i.e. they didn't re-up their registration after moving, not necessarily voting twice); or the address did not exis; or they voted in Milwaukee but lived outside the city; or some appeared (the report's itals) to have voted multiple times; and one apparent case of a dead person voting. C0uld some bad stuff have happened? Possibly. But it's more than likely only a small number of those 66 cases represent actual fraud -- as opposed to honest mistakes (as with some Tosa voters going to a nearby polling place in Milwaukee). Indeed, if the investigators had had a lot of juicy stuff to reporty you can bet they would have as opposed to glossing over it.
And there's little question voter ID would impede the votes of more than 66 people.
So, let's see. Cash-strapped lefty orgs work hard to ensure the voter registration cards they submit are accurate and are denounced as bad guys. The vastly wealthier RPW inflates the number of invalid addresses by a mere 5,553 locations due to their own fricking error, never apologizes or acknowledges the mistake and somehow wants to be taken seriously that their motives on Voter ID are pure.
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