Five federal judges say GOP claims of voter fraud in Wisconsin are partisan and goofy
Oct. 11, 2014 12:15 p.m.
Numerous studies in recent years have shown that verifiable cases of voter impersonation fraud are as rare as hen’s teeth. Still, that hasn’t deterred Republican politicians in various states from pushing preposterous and sometimes racist voter-suppression schemes.
But now, such efforts in Wisconsin are the target of blowback from federal judges, as we see HERE:
Just 14 hours after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Wisconsin’s voter ID law for the Nov. 4 election, five appeals court judges Friday issued a blistering opinion
calling allegations of voter impersonation fraud “a mere fig leaf for efforts to disenfranchise voters likely to vote for the political party that does not control the state government.”
“Some of the ‘evidence’ of voter-impersonation fraud is downright goofy, if not paranoid, such as the nonexistent buses that according to the ‘True the Vote’ movement transport foreigners and reservation Indians to polling places,” wrote Judge Richard A. Posner of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals…
Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has said he is considering ways to try to put the voter ID law back in place for the Nov. 4 election between GOP Gov. Scott Walker and Democrat Mary Burke.
But two professors who specialize in election law — Rick Hasen at the University of California, Irvine, and Daniel Tokaji at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University — said the ID requirement was unlikely to be in place for this election, given the Supreme Court’s decision.
The high court, however, could allow the law to take effect for future elections, they said.
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/article/20141011/BLOGS/310119996/-1/OPINION?src=ilaw#ixzz3Gp9zJPQZ
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