Uppity Wisconsin

Update: Feingold-Klobuchar-Ellison bill introduced last spring would implement universal same-day registration, look for it in the next session; no GOP co-sponsors The attempted voter suppression by the Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is interesting in that those encouraging voter participation in our democracy are on one side, and those with a sordid history of voter suppression are lining up on the other side of this case.

On the encouraging-voter-participation side we see the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, the Democratic Party, teachers, unions, and civil rights groups including the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The Brennan Center for Justice, the Campaign Legal Center, and Fair Elections Wisconsin.

On the other side: McCain's co-chair and the Republican Party.

I guess today's GOP is a traditional values party; the problem is that the values being promoted are the southern strategy, and naked voter obstruction ridiculing civil rights.

To keep up with news of the case (Van Hollen v. Government Accountability Board et al (case number 2008CV004085)), see JB Van Hollen vs. Government Accountability Board (Election Law @ Moritz).