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10/14/2008
Burri: Awfully easy to be fraudulent in WI
I downloaded a voter registration form today. Went to the official website, clicked a link, opened a new window, and hit “print.”
A word to the wise: choose the “unshaded” option. It uses less ink.
So I’m all ready now, to register through the mail. Just fill this sucker out and get it to the mailman, postmarked by tomorrow. Wednesday, October 15. That’s the deadline.
I repeat: tomorrow is the deadline, if you want to register through the mail.
And what difference does that make, you ask? Why register through the mail, when you can just register at the polls on Election Day?
Good question. Answer: because if you register at the polls, you have to prove who you are. Register through the mail, and you don’t.
Okay, so that’s not completely true. If you check the “New WI Voter” bubble on the form – meaning you’ve never voted in Wisconsin before – you have to include some kind of proof. A photocopy – a non-Photoshopped copy, mind you – of your license or ID; a paycheck stub; a utility bill. Something like that.
So don’t check that bubble. Check the “Address Change” or "Name Change" bubbles, instead. Then you don’t have to include ID.
To recap: if you register at the polls, you need ID or proof of residence. If you register through the mail as a new voter, you need ID or proof of residence.
If you register through the mail any other way, you don't.
So don't. It’s so much easier, and that goes double if you’re filling out fraudulent forms.
Pick a name. Pick an address – real or made up, it doesn’t matter. Pick four numbers randomly, because you need the last four of your Social Security number. Sign (with the name on the form), envelope, stamp, and: Bam. You’re in. That name and address will show up on a list of registered voters at the appropriate polling place. Just show up on Election Day, state that name, and get your ballot.
See, you need ID to register at the polls, but not to vote. Not if you’re already registered.
Now: There are a few obstacles in your path. For example: the smaller the town, the more likely a poll worker will notice something. No problem. That’s why we have cities.
Another obstacle: the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which requires local clerks to check the forms, and make sure they’re legit.
That’s a problem, but no worries! For one thing, there are plenty of helpful groups like ACORN, and Project Vote – lots and lots of volunteers on street corners and college campuses – collecting lots and lots of voter registration forms.
When do you suppose they’ll mail all those in? A little at a time? Maybe. Or maybe all at once. Tomorrow. Creating a landslide of forms hitting local clerks all at once by the beginning of next week. Too many to get through by Election Day. Sowing chaos, and undermining the whole idea.
And that’s not all you’ve got going for you. Democrats are confident this year. They figure on having the presidency, Congress, and Wisconsin’s state legislature by November 5.
Once they’re in, things like HAVA are out. Proving your identity is out. Proving, even, that you’re a U.S. citizen is out. Come November 2, 2010, it’ll be easier than ever to cast a fraudulent vote.
So by all means, get those registrations in.
Just have them postmarked by tomorrow.
Lance Burri is a contributor to the Badger Blog Alliance and occasionally blogs at his own site as well.
COMMENTS
There you go, Lance. You just made the GAB's point for them and shot AG Goodhair's leaky dinghy right out of the pond.
The clerks are tasked with ascertaining the honesty of all registrations since the date the new system came up. They have said it will be difficult to doublecheck that many registrations but that is, nonetheless, the expectation.
But you say it will be grievous hard to check just those random few that have come in since August, an almost Herculean task for the clerks. How then, in the name of (Insert name of your deity) could they go back two years to check in time for an election in 21 days?
BTW, are we supposed to consider this column a solicitation to registration fraud? If not, why? Compare and contrast. Show your work.
grumps (Tue Oct 14 14:55:22 2008)
Lance should be ruled incompetent to vote by a judge.
Lance has a Driver's License. Something he had to produce a Birth Certificate to get....out with his citizenship and proof of age.
Download the form, and you're registered...you don't even need to fill it out. The city clerks are all Miss Cleo clairvoyant...they know old Lancie boy.
Ticked off about this whole trumped up fake fraud thing...again.
Then give the entire Republican party a long rest.
They really need another decade to sleep it off.
wintoursghost (Tue Oct 14 15:52:53 2008)
Grumps, not "grievous hard to check just those random few that have come in since August." Grievous hard to check an enormous landslide of forms that all come in at once because they're all being mailed today. If, in fact, that's what happens. I speculate that a group like ACORN might do that in order to "sow chaos, and undermine the whole idea."
Not soliciting, just trying to show how easy it is. It shouldn't be that easy to defraud the election system. Don't you agree?
Lance Burri (Wed Oct 15 08:45:44 2008)
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