Sunday, September 14, 2008

It's About Time.

From JSOnline and Patrick McIlheran.
"Enforcing law: How novel
Posted: Sept. 12, 2008" JS Online: Enforcing law: How novel

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is suing Wisconsin’s election authorities to make them do what federal law says they should have been doing for years. It’s the least he could do.

No, really: the least.

Van Hollen’s lawsuit has municipal clerks justifiably scared and has prompted synthetic outrage from critics, but all he really is asking is that the Government Accountability Board see to it that the anti-fraud checks it should have been running get run.
So we pay millions and wait years for a database the state won’t even use properly. We put off matters until fixing it threatens to bury city clerks, until seven weeks before a critical election possibly determined by a few thousand ballots in Wisconsin — the validity of which, we’re told, is unknowable but shouldn’t worry us.
Demanding the elections board do its job was the least Van Hollen could do for legitimate voters.


Bully to Van Hollen for trying to get the vote right.

My one question, what the heck took so long? I am not a fan of J B and feel he plays to the middle and left a little too much. Don't get me wrong, I give him credit for doing the right thing but question the timing.

I hate when politicians do something for the election and after elected are empty suits till the next election cycle. I voted for Mr. Van Hollen and was disappointed in his first year in office. I and others thought he was our only hope the year he got elected. Maybe it is being in Madison that affects people, turning into empty suits. O k I'm done, that felt good.

Just to clarify. J B Van Hollen did the right thing here on the voting issues. I do not want my vote disenfranchised because of fraudulent votes in Wisconsin. We know they are out there, we know it happened and we don't want it happening again. The law is the law!

One last point, it's funny seeing the left running from this issue. They need every fraudulent vote they can get.

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