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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 11:56 AM Mar 2013

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.
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Wisconsin GOP wants end to weekend voting (Original Post) TomCADem Mar 2013 OP
The entirety of Wisconsin should be added to the Voting Rights Act. nt onehandle Mar 2013 #1
Assuming there is still a Voting Rights Act. KamaAina Mar 2013 #9
We used to have one of the more liberal set of voting regs. This whole Walker and the republipukes Ed Suspicious Mar 2013 #21
The majority has spoken atreides1 Mar 2013 #2
See what happens when you stay home because your pissed off at President Obama Coolest Ranger Mar 2013 #3
thank you coolest - i do the same thing - remind people of how we got this - people who sat out 2010 leftyohiolib Mar 2013 #6
and now I'm starting to hear some of these same folks on Ed Schultz Coolest Ranger Mar 2013 #20
There were a couple of elections since that one and yet Republicans still won. Bandit Mar 2013 #24
All the SCOTUS needs to do to decide on the Voting Rights Act is to read the headlines AndyA Mar 2013 #4
It should be expanded nationwide considering the current climate. redstatebluegirl Mar 2013 #5
Unfortunately, with the current composition of the Robert's Court, toddwv Mar 2013 #10
Oh I am sure they are reading them though its probably the ones that say cstanleytech Mar 2013 #23
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE??!!!?!?! secondwind Mar 2013 #7
They're bought and paid for by the corporations, duh. MillennialDem Mar 2013 #8
They'll be there Orsino Mar 2013 #11
How bald-faced is this? What on earth could anyone have against weekend voting? AllyCat Mar 2013 #12
Easy, I am in New Orleans, I was listening to a Black Radio station and they pointed out Katashi_itto Mar 2013 #14
when is the GOP going to introduce their legislation that only lets Republicans vote? TeamPooka Mar 2013 #13
+1000000000 L0oniX Mar 2013 #15
it is what they want.... TeamPooka Mar 2013 #26
I am surprised they don't want Smilo Mar 2013 #16
They can't win legally so they employ every single voter disenfranchisement they can dream up. judesedit Mar 2013 #17
How obama2terms Mar 2013 #18
We don't need no stinking voter rights acts. sellitman Mar 2013 #19
Thank you, TomCADem oldandhappy Mar 2013 #22
This is what you get when you VOTE for TeaPublicans. Hope WI is happy. Your choice. RBInMaine Mar 2013 #25
They'd end all voting if they could. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2013 #27
Fine print: Voting will be limited to Waukesha, Ozaukee and Outagamie Counties ... Scuba Mar 2013 #28

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
21. We used to have one of the more liberal set of voting regs. This whole Walker and the republipukes
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:22 PM
Mar 2013

regime is like a punch to the stones.

Coolest Ranger

(2,034 posts)
3. See what happens when you stay home because your pissed off at President Obama
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 12:11 PM
Mar 2013

for something? You get this.

 

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)
6. thank you coolest - i do the same thing - remind people of how we got this - people who sat out 2010
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 01:02 PM
Mar 2013

are the ones to thank

Coolest Ranger

(2,034 posts)
20. and now I'm starting to hear some of these same folks on Ed Schultz
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:54 PM
Mar 2013

radio show right now. People just don't think.

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
24. There were a couple of elections since that one and yet Republicans still won.
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 05:14 PM
Mar 2013

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)
4. All the SCOTUS needs to do to decide on the Voting Rights Act is to read the headlines
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 12:28 PM
Mar 2013

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.

toddwv

(2,830 posts)
10. Unfortunately, with the current composition of the Robert's Court,
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 01:12 PM
Mar 2013

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)
23. Oh I am sure they are reading them though its probably the ones that say
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 05:01 PM
Mar 2013

"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.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
11. They'll be there
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 01:15 PM
Mar 2013

"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)
12. How bald-faced is this? What on earth could anyone have against weekend voting?
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 01:20 PM
Mar 2013

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)
14. Easy, I am in New Orleans, I was listening to a Black Radio station and they pointed out
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 01:43 PM
Mar 2013

that the majority of African-Americans tend to vote after church, on Sunday. A great way to slice out a certain minority group.

Smilo

(1,944 posts)
16. I am surprised they don't want
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:10 PM
Mar 2013

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)
17. They can't win legally so they employ every single voter disenfranchisement they can dream up.
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:16 PM
Mar 2013

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)
18. How
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:49 PM
Mar 2013

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.

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
22. Thank you, TomCADem
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 04:49 PM
Mar 2013

for this post. Keep 'em coming' Anything you find on voter suppression is of interest to me. I write letters.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
28. Fine print: Voting will be limited to Waukesha, Ozaukee and Outagamie Counties ...
Tue Mar 5, 2013, 07:56 AM
Mar 2013

... 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.

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