Ex-staffer: Wisconsin GOP intended ID law to disenfranchise Dems

[L. Coyote]

Source: Zachary Roth - msnbc.com

A day after Wisconsin’s strict voter ID law helped cause long lines at the polls and kept some would-be voters from casting a ballot at all, a former GOP staffer told MSNBC his party actively intended for it to disenfranchise Democratic voters.

Todd Allbaugh, who served as chief of staff to a Republican state senator, said in an interview Wednesday that at a closed-door caucus meeting in 2011, GOP lawmakers openly discussed how the the ID bill would hit minorities and students hardest.

“One of the senators said, ‘We need to think about the ramifications here, what this means, particularly in Milwaukee and college campuses across the state, what that could mean for us,’” said Allbaugh.

“What I’m interested in here is winning, and we need to use the opportunity ............

Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ex-staffer-wisconsin-gop-intended-id-law-disenfranchise-dems

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Cheating criminals who need to be punished for their violations of the civil rights of others.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Ya think?

[billhicks76]

11. Only 34 of 101 Delegates In WA Have Been Counted Still

Bernie will grab about 53 and Clinton 14.

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. It's fashionable nowadays to brag about your cheating. Cheaters Suck! Cheaters suck the life

out of life!

[Jack Rabbit]

6. I'd like to suggest what should be done with cheaters who think cheating is cool

. . . but it would just earn me a hidden post.

[Dont call me Shirley]

8. Don't want you having hidden posts, JR...

I've had to erase many a post before hitting the "post my reply" button.

[hopemountain]

9. just as it is for racists to brag about being racists .. nt

[Chasstev365]

3. I thought it was to prevent all those cases of vote fraud?

Oh, that's right: THERE ARE NO CASES OF PEOPLE VOTING UNDER FAKE NAMES!

[Enrique]

4. next thing they'll tell us

the Benghazi hearings were intended to hurt Hillary.

[Gothmog]

5. The GOP is the party of voter suppression

The GOP can only win by suppressing the vote and stealing elections

[L. Coyote]

15. I just say, "Republicans cheat to win."

Easier to comprehend and covers the 20-30 different ways (we know of so far) that they shave points to win.

[shraby]

7. That is what is called election fraud!!!

Nevermind voter fraud, it is negligible.
Election fraud is rampant.

[Kip Humphrey]

12. I do believe changing the manner in which the vote is counted after the vote has been taken

but before the vote has been certified, as the Missouri Democratic Party will do tomorrow is a pretty good example of election fraud. I hope Bernie's lawyers are on this big time.

[Crash2Parties]

14. That is why many former Democrats are starting to be very wary of the DNC

"...the State Democratic Party has just decided to change the interpretation of the rules by forcing all counties to allocate their delegates based on the entire congressional district's proportionality vs. the way each county voted in the presidential primary, I.e. previously delegates were allocated based on the way each county voted (see attached documentation).

For example, previously Buchanan County was to elect 10 Bernie delegates and 8 Hillary delegates to the congressional district/state convention. Now the county has been told to elect 9 Bernie and 9 Hillary delegates."
[...]
Original Allocation: Clinton-601 Sanders-629
New Allocation: Clinton - 652 Sanders - 578
[...]
if the district voted 30% Hillary and 70% Sanders, they still have to allocate according to the 49.6% Hillary vs. 49.4% Sanders of the whole state.

(from: https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4dpi4i/crisis_in_missouri_regarding_delegate_allocation/ )


Slight shift in topic:

But then follow the comments regarding what would happen if both Sanders and Trump go independent and there is a 4 way election. If no candidate tops 207 electoral votes...the House gets to decide who of the top three candidates gets to win the election.

[Change has come]

10. I don't understand why the DNC isn't all over this issue.

It just makes no sense to me that there is zero push back when these laws are being developed and passed. Don't hear much once the voters start being disenfranchised either.

[L. Coyote]

16. We are.

But, when the Dem voters just skip elections and allow Republicans total control of the state laws, well .... blame the idiots who did not vote, not the people working full-time to stop them.

[JudyM]

19. "Idiots" ... Now there's a perspective.

[JudyM]

13. Just a thought... If political leaders are discussing this with other, might it be actual conspiracy

so that prosecution could grant immunity to some for spilling the beans...

[L. Coyote]

17. Does RICO apply? No statue of limitations .....

[Sunlei]

18. It is ALWAYS Republicans who create barriers to our one vote. Republicans who re-map districts,

Republicans who try to change the laws where population determines how many Reps a state/district elects.

Our Federal Court had to refuse the Republicans latest attempt to fuck-up our democracy. The Court said, what Republicans wanted was Unconstitutional.

[L. Coyote]

20. Yep, Wisconsin's Voter ID Law Is All About Suppressing the Vote

Yep, Wisconsin's Voter ID Law Is All About Suppressing the Vote

Let's be clear here: it's not exactly breaking news that photo ID laws are designed not to fight voter fraud—which is all but nonexistent—but primarily to make it harder for Democratic constituencies to vote. Still, it's nice to hear it from the horse's mouth sometimes.

You wanna know why I left the Republican Party as it exists today? Here it is; this was the last straw: I was in the closed Senate Republican Caucus when the final round of multiple Voter ID bills were being discussed. A handful of the GOP Senators were giddy about the ramifications and literally singled out the prospects of suppressing minority and college voters.

Think about that for a minute....A vigorous debate on the ideas wasn't good enough. Inspiring the electorate and relying on their agenda being better to get people to vote for them wasn't good enough. No, they had to take the coward's way out and come up with a plan to suppress the vote under the guise of 'voter fraud.' The truth? There was almost none.

That's from Todd Allbaugh, former chief of staff for Wisconsin state Sen. Dale Schultz (R). TPM's Tierney Sneed gave him a call:

Once he left politics, Allbaugh opened a Madison, Wisconsin, coffee shop, where TPM reached him over the phone and he elaborated on those claims.

“It just really incensed me that they started talking about this particular bill, and one of the senators got up and said, ‘We really need to think about the ramifications on certain neighborhoods in Milwaukee and on our college campuses and what this could do for us,’” Allbaugh said.

....According to Allbaugh, at this point in the point of meeting, Schultz brought up his own concerns with the voter ID legislation. “He was immediately shot down by another senator who said, ‘What I am interested in is getting results here and using the power while we have it, because if the Democrats were in control they would do they same thing to us, so I want to use it while we have it.'”

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Rick Cooley ?@rcooley123 Apr 9
There Is No More Lying. Wisconsin Congressman Admits Voter ID Laws Are Designed To Suppress Democrats From Voting |

Jamelle Bouie Verified account ?@jbouie Apr 7
The voter ID nonsense in Wisconsin should scare the hell out of Democrats.

AAJC ?@AAAJ_AAJC Apr 6
Wisconsin just saw how voter ID laws target young voters & voters of color. #RestoreTheVRA
http://www.thenation.com/article/wisconsins-voter-id-law-caused-major-problems-at-the-polls-last-night/ …

Occupy Wall Street ?@OccupyWallStNYC Apr 6
That time a #Wisconsin Republican accidentally told the truth about #VoterID laws

Greg Palast ?@Greg_Palast Apr 5
The hardest hit by #Wisconsin's new voter ID laws will be the poor, minorities & students, i.e. black & blue voters