On first read of DOJ correspondence and complaint, I do not find any DOJ response to GAB's stated concern about eligible voters getting disenfranchised:
"... preliminary data that showed more than a fifth of voters’ data mismatched due to variations in names, differing data entry standards, or typographical errors. A check conducted of G.A.B. members’ data resulted in four of six Board members’ information mis-matching." [Sept 10 Accountability Board Replies to Attorney General’s Lawsuit]
The DOJ Complaint could have been written by the RNC: "Because of the defendants' inaction, properly qualified voters are at risk of having their vote diminished and diluted by the votes of unqualified, ineligible voters who are not entitled to cast ballots."
Who and what ineligible voters?
Van Hollen writes in the DOJ PR that "I promised that I would work to restore integrity to this office and state government." Funny.
I want to see the GAB response complaint.
This is a national civil rights story.
Where are Feingold, Tammy and Co? And where, excepting liberal blogs, is the outrage?
Some links:
- WI DOJ site
- August 27 Letter to the Government Accountability Board
- Aug 28 Response From the Government Accountability Board
- Sept 10 Accountability Board Replies to Attorney General’s Lawsuit
How about, for once, liberals, you follow the letter of the law and stop stomping your little feet about being "supressed". It's old and getting older by the minute, if you can't follow the law, stay out of the voting booth.
ReplyDeleteThe WSJ recently reported that the federal DOJ is joining the fight - on behalf of ensuring no improper vote is cast - not to protect against systemic voter suppression - and had been called to account for itself, on this newest tactic, before a congressional committee.
ReplyDeleteOf course the WSJ does not make for much evenhanded reporting [I wrote to the journalist, evan perez, about failure to include voter caging, and VA Republican efforts to suppres vote drives that got panned in a WaPo editorial as blatant voter suppression, but the journalist did not deign to respond]
However, the facts included there, such as they were - including those about the committee investigating this newest plague of FEDERAL assistance to the state-based suppression effort may assist you in the good fight:
Here the article- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122091910197012647.html?mod=loomia&loomia_si=t0:a16:g12:r5:c0.022545
good luck!