Thus turnout.can possibly exceed the number of registered voters prior to the election.

make me homesick for Wyoming while I'm stuck in some strip mall/subdivision sprawl in Florida.

In fact, the changes from the south through to the Pacific northwest on the two long journeys were not the same at all for me.

Went through WY going east in 1991, saw cowboys chasing stray cattle near the motel I stopped at. And saw the portable fences they were rounding up open range cattle into cattle trailers on both sides of I-90. It was the kind of open space that America was once legendary for having.

On the way back up that had changed. My vision of the country the first time had been altered. I was looking at a landscape, some of it, that may have looked at they did a hundred years before with farms and ranches, and it was gone urbanized or suburbanized.

It may not be what you dream of now. I hate strip malls, and the ways the land is being treated. I saw where the forest was clear cut, never to return, soil washing away in places that had to have taken centuries to grow those trees. There was no attempt in those places to replant for plantations of trees, it was just mined like they do in Brazll, Africa and Indonesia.

Things change so quick, it's like that, 'You can never go home again,' saying, like this song:

Though Huffpost headlines have me worried.

I hope Milwaukee turns out strong also.

Madison, Wisconsin is about the most liberal place in America next to San Francisco!!

Wouldn't that be an indication of actual voter fraud?

e: Ah. Same day registration. Thought Walker had banned that.

The use of that figure is absurd. What they mean to say is that most everyone showed up and more people than were originally pre-registered showed up to get registered to vote.

That would put it above the 100% already registered. Maybe?



I am so proud of Wisconsinites!

You can walk into your polling place on election day and register to vote immediately before going into a voting booth.

but to quote text at the link:

"In case any of you are wondering how it is possible to break 100% it is because in Wisconsin we have same day registration. Which means if this report is correct that 19% of the voters in Madison are first time voters."

"In case any of you are wondering how it is possible to break 100% it is because in Wisconsin we have same day registration. Which means if this report is correct that 19% of the voters in Madison are first time voters."

It's a math thing.

Few really expected this sort of turnout.

it's so high in so many places that it challenges assumptions about how to interpret high turnout.

(joke)

Full turnout of registered voters AND an additional 19% from new registrants?

If I were Walker, I'd be spending this time practicing that concession speech.

...I'd be consulting with my criminal lawyers after today. Wonder if WI has a unionized penal officer force.

Prison guards are AFSCME

And they're not Walker fans.

They, and the P&P officers, were among the strongest participant groups in the protests & the recall petition work.

Guess we'll have to thank Tommy Thompson for exploding the prison industry in the state for kicking Wanker's ass - should we succeed.

Please!

Let him eat the steaming piles of bullshit he's been dishing out to the rest of us.

To steal the greatest Onion headline eva'.

I'm so proud of Wisconsin today.

any bets on if Walker loses there will be calls of voter fraud?

He'll still be out on his ass. Wisconsin is ROCKING THE VOTE today.

Same thing will be said on the other side.

Fascinating, isn't it?

Best wishes to the decent people of Wisconsin.

they can reveal if Walker doesn't win, in an attempt to taint the process?

not near Wisconsin, but there are some tight races for local candidates. Hope I am still listed, for the last 2 years I had to vote by proxy because they lost my voting registration, they look it up, it always counts, but is very annoying and time consuming. it is not like I have missed a single election and it is always there for school board elections, so don't know what that means.

Never stop trying. Take care getting there and back. Good for you, hollysmom. And welcome to DU.

and let us know how it goes.
and welcome to DU

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We just might get a true glimpse into American thinking tonight.

nt

But remember, summer sessions may be going on.

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Madison is Dem territory. We might just win this thing.

How many of these newly registered voters were members of a grass roots movement bussed in by the Koch brothers?

I'm not saying the Koch Bros. wouldn't do that...I'm thinking they'd pick a friendlier county. Normally I'd suspect Waukesha Co. but observers are watching it like a hawk for signs of fraud...but it'd have to be a population-sizable county that is solidly conservative enough that nobody would question it.

I understand how the total can be over 100% with same day registration but I would think there would be no way to tell what percentage voted until polls closed. This makes no sense to me.

Does this assume 100% turnout of registered voters?!?

will be glad when the asshat is thrown out of the capitol once and for all.

due to earlier enacted voter restrictions. Did anyone else hear this, and/or does anyone else know if this is true?

I did note earlier in this thread someone raising a similar question, but no one has responded.

Sam

Here's the government registration site that gives the requirements. Only mandatory photo ID has been terminated by the courts.

http://gab.wi.gov/elections-voting/voters/registration-voting

and not accepting school ID, or drivers licenses if they have the student's home address instead of the school address. This stuff didn't go into effect because of injunctions.

What did to into effect was a 28-day residency requirement, so when the students went home last week r so, they were typically not at home long enough to re-establish their residencies. Many circumvented this with early voting before they left for the summer.

they just don't understand.



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2891932/posts

sheesh.