Tuesday, August 2, 2011

More dirty tricks in WI. What a shock.

We Are Wisconsin filed a complaint against the Koch-funded Tea Party for dirty tricks in the recalls:
With just days to go before the recall election of six Wisconsin Republicans, the right-wing front group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) has been caught distributing absentee ballot applications to Democrats which advertise an Election Day one week later than its actual date. The news comes just days after AFP announced a six-digit ad buy to buoy flailing campaigns of Republicans recall targets across Wisconsin.

Today, voters in Senate Districts 2 and 10 who received the mailers filed complaints with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, alleging serious violations of Wisconsin election law.
Dane101 reports the GAB is warning voters about the misinformation.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel also reports a tape recording has been discovered of a Tea Party plot to engage in illegal voter fraud:
The group One Wisconsin Now said that it had obtained an audio recording of a tea party leader in June outlining plans to work with the state Republican Party and another group, Americans for Prosperity, and use postcards to verify voters' addresses as well as provide volunteer poll workers to challenge voters on Election Day.
Officials with the groups involved confirmed there had been discussions and that a trial run of 500 letters had been sent to Milwaukee voters. But they said that One Wisconsin was twisting their motives of trying to prevent voter fraud and that the plans had ultimately been shelved anyway.
Here's the plan:
...groups affiliated with the tea party movement such as GrandSons of Liberty were seeking to challenge voters at the polls based on whether postcards could be delivered to them at their registered address and whether they responded to those postcards.
Reid Magney, a spokesman for the state Government Accountability Board, said that his group had received the complaint from One Wisconsin Now. Magney did not comment further on the complaint but said under state law voters cannot be challenged simply because a piece of mail can't be delivered to them.
And we just love the fact that the out-of-state group American Federation for Children (the Amway heirs' front group for privatizing education) is running ads...complaining about spending by out-of-state groups ... in an ad that uses the same stock footage that was used in FLORIDA ads. 

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