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ProfessionalLeftist

(4,982 posts)
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 08:11 PM Nov 2012

Romney Co-Chair: Voter ID Would Have Won Us Wisconsin

A state senator who served as co-chair of Mitt Romney’s Wisconsin campaign suggested this week that the Republican presidential nominee would have carried the state if a voter ID law had been in place.

Voter ID “absolutely” would have made a difference in the outcome of the election, state Sen. Alberta Darling (R) told Mike Gousha of WISN on Sunday. She suggested that voter fraud helped President Barack Obama win the state.

We’re looking at all sorts of different precincts and all sorts of same-day registrations,” Darling said. “I know people will go, ‘We don’t have fraud and abuse in our elections.’ But why, why can’t we have voter ID when the majority of our people in Wisconsin wanted it, we passed it, the governor signed it? Why should one judge in Dane County be able to hold it up?”

A Wisconsin judge put the state’s voter ID law on hold in March, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court later declined to take up the case.

Obama won more than 52 percent of the vote in Wisconsin. His margin of victory over Romney was more than 200,000 votes.


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This the second or third Repug who has now ADMITTED Voter ID is simply about VOTER SUPPRESSION - they know there's no "voter fraud".

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Romney Co-Chair: Voter ID Would Have Won Us Wisconsin (Original Post) ProfessionalLeftist Nov 2012 OP
So what do you have to show for same day exboyfil Nov 2012 #1
Proof of identification and residence for a minimum of 10 days. undeterred Nov 2012 #7
28 days Viking12 Nov 2012 #9
If Dems were smart Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #2
So 200,000 votes were cast by fraud according to this senator. hrmjustin Nov 2012 #3
She thinks all Democratic votes are fraudulent undeterred Nov 2012 #5
President Obama's margin of victory in Wisconsin PennsylvaniaMatt Nov 2012 #4
It was actually nearly 7%. The notion is idiotic. Jennicut Nov 2012 #8
Thanks! PennsylvaniaMatt Nov 2012 #11
Translation: The only way we can win is by suppressing votes. marmar Nov 2012 #6
+10000000 n/t ProfessionalLeftist Nov 2012 #10

exboyfil

(18,366 posts)
1. So what do you have to show for same day
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 08:14 PM
Nov 2012

registration in Wisconsin? Could you go from polling place to the next and register and vote?

undeterred

(34,658 posts)
7. Proof of identification and residence for a minimum of 10 days.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 08:29 PM
Nov 2012

Basically a photo id and a lease or utility bill will do it. But its much easier in WI than in most states.

If you tried to register at more than one that would probably be found out and then you would be charged with voter fraud afterwards.

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)
2. If Dems were smart
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 08:14 PM
Nov 2012

They would push for automatic registration and voter ID when someone turns 18 years of age. That would put a stop to this nonsense once and for all.

undeterred

(34,658 posts)
5. She thinks all Democratic votes are fraudulent
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 08:24 PM
Nov 2012

because people who vote democratic are usually criminals, you know.

PennsylvaniaMatt

(966 posts)
4. President Obama's margin of victory in Wisconsin
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 08:14 PM
Nov 2012

Do they REALLY think that voter ID would have overcame President Obama's 6% margin of victory in the state!?!? Good God, no wonder why they lost!

Jennicut

(25,415 posts)
8. It was actually nearly 7%. The notion is idiotic.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 08:31 PM
Nov 2012

Like everything else the Repubs do.

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