Wisconsin GOP wants end to weekend voting
Source: Maddow Blog
We've known this bill was coming, and now here it is: a proposal by Wisconsin Republicans to cap the hours for early voting and end weekend voting altogether. Wisconsin Assembly Bill 54 got introduced and moved to committee on Friday. From the summary:
Under current law, a person may apply to the municipal clerk in person to vote using an absentee ballot. In-person applications to vote using an absentee ballot may be made beginning on the third Monday preceding the election and ending on the later of 5 p.m. or the close of business on the Friday preceding the election. Under this bill, in-person applications to vote using an absentee ballot may only be received Monday to Friday between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. each day. In addition, the clerk's office may not be open more than 40 hours a week beginning on the third Monday preceding the election and ending on 5 p.m. on the Friday preceding the election in order to receive applications made in person. The bill does not require that the clerk's office be open 40 hours a week to receive applications made in person.
Shorter: no more nights and weekends for early voting. In November, voters in Milwaukee County got to vote from 8:30 AM to 7 PM on weekdays, and from 9 AM to 5 PM on Saturday and Sunday. The number of days and weekends had been cut in half by Republicans in 2011, but even so Milwaukee managed turnout of 87 percent. Since that election, Wisconsin Republicans have proposed ending same-day registration for ordinary voters.
Read more: http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/03/04/17168233-wisconsin-gop-wants-end-to-weekend-voting?lite
The GOP war on voting rights and voter enfranchisement continues.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)regime is like a punch to the stones.
atreides1
(16,093 posts)And this is what Wisconsin has got for a government!
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)for something? You get this.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)are the ones to thank
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)radio show right now. People just don't think.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)Why do you think that is? Especially after all the media and hype over the Recalls and Union rights.....It certainly is not as simple as you would have people believe. There is and has always been much smaller turn-out during an off year election and I doubt if it had anything to do with Obama at all. Republicans were fired up and Democrats were not....Pretty simple..
AndyA
(16,993 posts)Considering everything that happened leading up to the elections last November, and all the crap since then, it's pretty obvious that the Voting Rights Act needs to remain intact, and indeed perhaps expanded to add a few other states, now under GOP rule, to protect voters.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)toddwv
(2,830 posts)it's more than just reading the headlines.
Corporations are people.
Money is free speech.
Voting is a privilege granted by a well-positioned and well-monied oligarchy.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)"GOP loses the senate" and the majority of the SCOTUS then are thinking how they can "fix" that to make it better......................for the GOP.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)"The GOP'll be all around in the dark. They'll be ever'-where - wherever you can't look. Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, they'll be in the way. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, they'll be there to make sure you can't film it. They'll be in the way white guys yell when they're mad - they'll be in the way kids cry when they're hungry an' they know no one will feed them. An' when they're eatin' the stuff we raise, and livin' in the houses we build - We won't be welcome there."
AllyCat
(16,223 posts)Wouldn't that just make it easier? Oh yeah, that's the problem. There is just NO OTHER reason to ban this in our state. I am so depressed for our state. It used to be wonderful. Now we are like Mississippi. Terrible.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)that the majority of African-Americans tend to vote after church, on Sunday. A great way to slice out a certain minority group.
TeamPooka
(24,255 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)TeamPooka
(24,255 posts)Smilo
(1,944 posts)to just come out and say only those people voting R can vote - because this is what they mean.
F'g scumbags.
judesedit
(4,443 posts)And that includes STEALING ELECTIONS. Thank you again, Anonymous, for deflecting their strategies and tactics in 2012. We majorly appreciate that and hope you will continue to fight these criminals for the sake of the country.
obama2terms
(563 posts)Could we even consider getting rid of the voting rights act, when there are still clearly abuses in the system today. The only difference is, they're targeting everyone not just black people.
sellitman
(11,607 posts)There isn't any racism left down South.
Oh wait....
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)for this post. Keep 'em coming' Anything you find on voter suppression is of interest to me. I write letters.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,212 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)... a picture ID will be required. The picture must show a white male standing in front of property he owns, preferably in a gated community.