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1. Member
   DrewInWisconsin, Man of Constant Sorrow

   @DrewInWisconsin

   8:47 AM EST ⋅ Nov 5, 2020

   I’m glad you made this its own post. It deserved to be.

    

2. Member
   DrewInWisconsin, Man of Constant Sorrow

   @DrewInWisconsin

   8:52 AM EST ⋅ Nov 5, 2020

   They broke the law, and then had judges on their side to provide cover . . .

   . . . the campaign to deliver him the Badger State really began in October of 2019.

   That month, the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC)—the bipartisan board tasked with administering the state’s elections—indicated that it would ignore Wisconsin law buy refusing to remove from the state’s voter rolls the names of 234,000 people who had moved either out of state or to a different city in Wisconsin.

   Once those names are flagged by the multi-state Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) database, Wisconsin Statute § 6.50(3) requires the WEC to “notify the elector by mailing a notice by first class mail to the elector’s registration address stating the source of the information.”  If they do not reply and “apply for continuation of registration within 30 days of the date the notice is mailed, the clerk or board of election commissioners shall change the elector’s registration from eligible to ineligible status.”

   For more than a year, the Wisconsin Election Commission and local election officials in the two most heavily Democratic counties in the state have done everything in their power to make a Biden win an inevitability.

   The law is crystal clear: If a voter does not respond and apply for continuation within 30 days, his or her name is to be removed from the voter rolls immediately.  This does not, of course, disenfranchise those voters since they are still registered to vote at their new address.  It simply removes the old, defunct name and address (in effect a “phantom” voter) from the rolls.

   . . .

   There is no legitimate reason for keeping these 234,000 names on the voter rolls, but the WEC did.  Instead of following the law, the WEC invented its own and refused to deactivate these phantom voters for a further 12 to 24 months, allowing them to vote in the presidential primary and general elections.

   . . .

   After the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) sued the WEC, an Ozaukee County Circuit Court judge ordered election commissioners to remove the names from the rolls.  They refused.

   The judge held them in contempt of court and ordered them to pay a fine each day they refused to follow his order, but instead of complying, the WEC’s three Democrat-appointed commissioners—Mark Thomsen, Ann Jacobs, and Julie Glancey—filed an appeal.

   The Fourth District Court of Appeals had twice before declined the WEC’s requests to throw out the order, but once it became clear that commissioners would actually have to remove the names from the rolls, the District Court’s three liberal judges—JoAnne Kloppenburg, Jennifer Nashold, and Michael Fitzpatrick—remarkably reversed course and allowed the WEC to continue to ignore the clear letter and intent of state law and keep 234,000 phantom voters on Wisconsin’s rolls for as long as two years.

    

3. Member
   DJ EJ

   @DJEJ

   Post author

   8:55 AM EST ⋅ Nov 5, 2020

   DrewInWisconsin, Man of Consta… (View Comment):

   I’m glad you made this its own post. It deserved to be.

    

   The story is so long and convoluted and at the same time so important for understanding how election night happened. I’m glad Dan O’Donnell does this research and publishes these articles.

4. Coolidge
   Chris O.

   @ChrisO

   

   9:05 AM EST ⋅ Nov 5, 2020

   People still being prosecuted for donating to Republicans up there? Geez.

5. Inactive
   MichaelKennedy

   @MichaelKennedy

   9:37 AM EST ⋅ Nov 5, 2020

   DrewInWisconsin, Man of Consta… (View Comment):
   The Fourth District Court of Appeals had twice before declined the WEC’s requests to throw out the order, but once it became clear that commissioners would actually have to remove the names from the rolls, the District Court’s three liberal judges—JoAnne Kloppenburg, Jennifer Nashold, and Michael Fitzpatrick—remarkably reversed course and allowed the WEC to continue to ignore the clear letter and intent of state law and keep 234,000 phantom voters on Wisconsin’s rolls for as long as two years.

   It’s interesting to see that Democrats, even when acting as judges, are still partisans.

6. Member
   DrewInWisconsin, Man of Constant Sorrow

   @DrewInWisconsin

   9:42 AM EST ⋅ Nov 5, 2020

   MichaelKennedy (View Comment):

   DrewInWisconsin, Man of Consta… (View Comment):
   The Fourth District Court of Appeals had twice before declined the WEC’s requests to throw out the order, but once it became clear that commissioners would actually have to remove the names from the rolls, the District Court’s three liberal judges—JoAnne Kloppenburg, Jennifer Nashold, and Michael Fitzpatrick—remarkably reversed course and allowed the WEC to continue to ignore the clear letter and intent of state law and keep 234,000 phantom voters on Wisconsin’s rolls for as long as two years.

   It’s interesting to see that Democrats, even when acting as judges, are still partisans.

   Our judicial elections here in Wisconsin are allegedly “nonpartisan” . . . but we all know better.

   Actually, whenever you hear of a group, organization, think-tank, media outlet or whatever, described as “non-partisan” or “bi-partisan” you can be sure that it’s Democrat-controlled.

    

7. Coolidge
   DonG (skeptic)

   @DonG

   3:41 PM EST ⋅ Nov 5, 2020

   That story is amazing and it shows a prolonged effort starting with winning statewide control of voting in 2018.   The brilliance of just swatting away 3rd parties that siphon votes from Dems.  The bravado to say, “sure we’ll remove shadow voters from the registration…after the election, so FU”.  The bravado to ignore laws on ballot collection and host hundreds of ballot collection parties and say FU to the courts.  That’s how you steal an election.  You don’t stuff ballot boxes overnight during the counting, you stuff the ballot boxes in the broad daylight for weeks and weeks and weeks knowing nobody can stop you, nobody will stop you.

8. Coolidge
   lowtech redneck

   @lowtech redneck

   11:32 PM EST ⋅ Nov 5, 2020

   Chris O. (View Comment):

   People still being prosecuted for donating to Republicans up there? Geez.

   They’re also being prosecuted for self-defense, its not surprising.

9. Member
   Sisyphus

   @Sisyphus

   

   3:33 AM EST ⋅ Nov 6, 2020

   From Jack Cashill in the American Thinker:

    In 2020, an astounding 88 percent of those registered to vote seem to have voted.  In Ohio, another battleground state, the turnout was a much more typical 68 percent.  The highest voter turnout in recent years nationwide was 61.6 percent in 2008.  In 2012, the last year for which data are readily available for Wisconsin, the turnout was 65 percent.

   If the Wisconsin average was 88 percent statewide, some parts of the state obviously had to have higher numbers.  In this regard, the City of Milwaukee is suspect, and not all of Milwaukee, either.  Contrary to expectation, in many of the wards with the heaviest concentration of black American voters, the turnout was relatively light.  Joe Biden was no Barack Obama, but more on this in a minute.

   As a caution, let me call this a work in progress.  I am looking at a ward-by-ward spreadsheet that strikes me as a legitimate.  Those who know Milwaukee better than I should feel free to contact me through American Thinker.

   The most striking feature of the data is a fact that cries out for clarification: in seven wards, voter turnout appears to have exceeded 100 percent.  In two of those wards, turnout exceeded 200 percent.  In another 15 wards, voter turnout exceeded 95 percent.  Joe Biden carried 21 of the 22 wards of the 95-plus-percent wards.  But then again, he carried all but one of the 67 additional wards in which the turnout was above 90 percent and won 80 percent of the vote citywide.

   The president should be confronting the nation with the facts rather than yammering about “vote counting”.

10. Inactive
    Ralphie

    @Ralphie

    8:43 AM EST ⋅ Nov 6, 2020

    Good article. What I have discovered by being involved with liberal people in organizations are that by laws are just a cover. It is like trying to play a game where your opponent changes the rules for themselves, then pulls out the old rules you agreed to to make you play by.  The ends justify the means is a large statement.

    I notice that the author stated there is error (3%) in removing from active voter rolls, but also a remedy for that error. If you show up you can register the same day. 

    I also believe that we have never had 100% perfect elections. It is human error to believe that there are not unintended misses, etc. Not many people are straight A 100% students, a lot of poll workers are just ordinary people, some smarter than others. Some feel important doing that job.

    In this instance, I do believe that there are a lot of things that need to be exposed, it doesn’t matter if Trump is the winner in the end or not. This isn’t the last election (hopefully).

    Our officials have let us down, and they don’t really care.

    I know that the NYT went back to Fl and they agreed Bush won. 

    Myths are worse than anything. I have an anal mind that just wants to know what the real story is. Without good information, I have to make a judgement based on what I can put together.

    Fraud in my mind.