GOPpies' undies in a twist over Voter ID veto - vow constitutional change

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GOP adamant about voter ID law
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=37668&ntpid=6
4/27/05
Phil Brinkman Wisconsin State Journal

Republicans said Tuesday they'll try to change the state constitution if Gov. Jim Doyle follows through on his promise to veto a bill requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls and lawmakers are unable to override it.

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Republicans contend the measure is necessary in light of several cases of suspected voter fraud in Milwaukee in the last election. Currently, voters can register at the polls using just a utility bill or by having someone vouch for their identity.

Doyle and many of his fellow Democrats say the requirement poses an unnecessary burden on voters, falling mostly on the poor, minorities, students and the elderly.

Lawmakers would need a two-thirds vote in each house to override Doyle's veto, which appears unlikely since the measure passed initially by just under that margin.

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Photo ID bill goes to Doyle
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/apr05/321618.asp
Republicans deliver measure on voting reform, which governor plans to veto again
By STEVEN WALTERS
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Posted: April 26, 2005

Madison - Republican legislators on Tuesday hand-delivered to Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle a bill that would require voters to show a photo ID at the polls, but an aide to Doyle said he would veto it a second time.

Doyle was traveling and not available for comment. Yet he has said that the bill could disenfranchise up to 150,000 older and disabled people who cannot leave nursing homes or homes to get free state-issued IDs they would have to show to vote if they did not have driver's licenses.

Assembly Speaker John Gard (R-Peshtigo) and Rep. Jeff Stone (R-Greenfield), and the two Senate sponsors of the bill, Republicans Joe Leibham of Sheboygan and Neal Kedzie of Elkhorn, said the measure would take a step toward fixing documented examples of illegal voting and thousands of discredited votes in November in Milwaukee.

The Journal Sentinel found a 7,000-vote gap, with more ballots than people recorded and other problems with vote totals in dozens of Milwaukee wards; some 1,200 votes cast from invalid city addresses; and votes cast by hundreds of felons. The disclosures touched off a federal inquiry into possible vote fraud and a state audit of election procedures.

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So the new GOPpie plank is to fuck with the constitution every time they can't get their way - TABOR, Voter ID, next it will be the Unconscience Clause.

Where's the outrage? Even the Gannett rags ought to be shouting to the heavens on this.