lucky wilbury
05-18-2005, 04:57 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156284,00.html
Rules Were Meant to Be Broken?
Officials in Milwaukee say they've now established that, in their city alone, 4,600 more votes were cast in November elections, than there were voters listed as having gone to the polls. They also found that more than 100 people voted twice, used fake names, or voted in the name of a dead person and hundreds of felons ineligible to vote did so anyway.
In Wisconsin, only felons who have completed probation or parole are allowed to vote. But, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (search), that didn't stop at least 200 felons from voting illegally and that number is likely much higher, since the Sentinel could only review about a third of the 2.98 million votes cast in the state. The Sentinel says most of those who committed fraud might not face any legal action, because city records are too sloppy for prosecutors to put together their cases.
Rules Were Meant to Be Broken?
Officials in Milwaukee say they've now established that, in their city alone, 4,600 more votes were cast in November elections, than there were voters listed as having gone to the polls. They also found that more than 100 people voted twice, used fake names, or voted in the name of a dead person and hundreds of felons ineligible to vote did so anyway.
In Wisconsin, only felons who have completed probation or parole are allowed to vote. But, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (search), that didn't stop at least 200 felons from voting illegally and that number is likely much higher, since the Sentinel could only review about a third of the 2.98 million votes cast in the state. The Sentinel says most of those who committed fraud might not face any legal action, because city records are too sloppy for prosecutors to put together their cases.