She wasn't registered and had no proof of residence, so she could not register or vote.
But she had no apparent intention of going home and returning with proof of residency.
"It's alright," she said. "Forget it."
The voter explained to an attentive poll worker she didn't like Wisconsin's photo voter ID law, a distaste that shaped her feelings towards the entire voting process, including a simple voter-registration step.
This woman is a Republican success story — a nonvoting resident who is dismayed and frustrated, too discouraged to vote.
In Wisconsin, as in the nation, a key Republican objective is blocking and frustrating as many voters as possible.
Democrats and progressive are voting rights advocates, passionately.
In the last 10 years in their voter-obstruction effort, Wisconsin Republicans falsely claimed:
- Legal mandate for exact-match of state databases as a condition of voting, (2008)
- Imperative for all municipalities running only one early-voting site
- Requirement that ''dorm lists' used as proof of residence include citizenship information
- 28-day residency requirement leads to fraud
- Prohibition on distributing absentee ballots by fax or email
- Bar on using expired but otherwise qualifying student IDs
- Need for narrow range of photo voter ID as condition of voting
- Determination to illegally block state elections
Many voter-obstruction laws were swept away in federal court in 2016, (Mal Contends).
Wisconsin progressives and citizens' groups pushing the Democratic Party may sweep away Republicans in the Wisconsin midterms, as early voting accelerates this week.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) seems likely to be reelected.
Wisconsin voters may be able to breech the gerrymandered state legislative districts.
An unknown question is the governor's race between Scott Walker (R) and Tony Evers (D).
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Barack Obama are coming to Milwaukee in the next week to get out the black and young vote in segregated southeastern Wisconsin.
Tony Evers is a weak candidate. Attempts to paint over this milquetoast, equivocating bureaucrat with no history of work for social justice are not compelling.
In Bloomberg this morning, veteran political operative and Democratic Party analyst, Bill Dixon of Madison, spins a comical riff trying to prop up Evers: "Tony is the smooth, calming presence, talking about education, that gives us a much better chance than previous elections against Walker."
Right. All over Wisconsin are working families and communities looking for politicians to calm them.
What Wisconsin families want from elected officials is simply people who are working for them, not for donors to Scott Walker.
Not for Foxconn.
Not for special interests.
The national political winds and voting rights work may lift a less-than-gifted Tony Evers over the most corrupt and destructive politician Wisconsin has ever experienced.
Almost 2 out of 3 Americans did not vote in 2014. As a result, extreme-right wing Republicans swept the midterms.— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) October 22, 2018
This year is going to be different. If young people vote in 2018, you will transform America.
No comments:
Post a Comment