Paddy McIlheran, a member of the Journal Sentinel editorial board, thinks that "the Milwaukee police" found vote fraud.

He's just beside himself, apparently having just learned that there were some mistakes made in the election more than three years ago -- mistakes first reported, and reported extensively and repeatedly, by his own newspaper.

But 2004 included much more, enough that U.S. Attorney Steve Biskupic could report afterward that he stood by his initial assessment: There was clear evidence of vote fraud, even if most cases would be impossible to prosecute.

Now, the Milwaukee Police Department’s report serves up 67 pages of cases, addresses, numbers and this conclusion: “The task force believes fraud was committed.” It quotes one of its investigators: “I know I voted in the election, but I can’t be certain it counted.”

The details are damning, with investigators repeatedly blaming not mischance but the flawed combination of an inept election apparatus and the nation’s most porous voting procedures.

Perhaps Paddy Mac should read Milwaukee's daily newspaper, the Journal Sentinel, which pays him to write such drivel.

In its front page story, he might have found this:

Well, well, well. The Republicans were right. There was a case of voter fraud. It was double voting by a Republican.

Nice job, Prosecutor Biskupic.  Another misconception shattered.  No further comment required:

The Journal Sentinel's Proof & Hearsay reports:

He double voted to benefit ...

By Derrick Nunnally

Thursday, Aug 23 2007, 04:13 PM

Few things in the American political system are viewed as sacrosanct as the concept that a voter's ballot is secret.

Perhaps that's why lawyers, when they had Michael A. Zore under oath in his trial for voting twice in last November's election, he wasn't asked for whom he had cast his acknowledged multiple ballots.

However — and this ought to answer questions posed by several readers — we get a fairly definitive answer in this transcript of Zore's interrogation by a detective, which turned up in courthouse records.

This morning's New York Times carries an article on its front page discussing the bogus "widespread voter fraud prosecution" throughout the country, and features Wisconsin. Makes you proud, eh?

In Wisconsin, where prosecutors have lost almost twice as many cases as they won, charges were brought against voters who filled out more than one registration form and felons seemingly unaware that they were barred from voting.

One ex-convict was so unfamiliar with the rules that he provided his prison-issued identification card, stamped “Offender,” when he registered just before voting.

If only it were just Wisconsin. It's a story that isn't going to die any time soon.

Hate anyone to miss Daniel Bice's piece at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Brew City Brawler covered_it, but buried it under the Georgia problem)

The mystery is solved.

For weeks, it was unclear who whined to the White House last year that not enough voter fraud cases were being prosecuted in Milwaukee.

Now we know.

The state Republican Party went straight to the top in its efforts to make voter fraud an issue in Wisconsin.

Sources tell No Quarter that Rick Wiley, then the executive director of the state GOP, directed a staffer in 2005 to prepare a 30-page report on election abuses in Wisconsin so Wiley could pass it along to a top White House official.

That document, entitled "Fraud in Wisconsin 2004: A Timeline/Summary," turned up last week in the horde of White House and U.S. Justice Department records released by the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.

"The report was prepared for Karl Rove," said a source with knowledge of the situation. "Rick wanted it so he could give it to Karl Rove."

Yeah, that Karl Rove, President Bush's political mastermind and his deputy chief of staff.

The same guy who was knee-deep in helping decide which U.S. attorneys to keep or to boot.

Rest at JS

Tuesday morning's Journal Sentinel story about the Clifford campaign phone calls:

The Journal Sentinel's editorial board endorsed Clifford on Sunday. The editorial board is separate from the Journal Sentinel's reporting and editing newsroom.

True, those functions have been separate and schizophrenic of late, with conservative news content and a more liberal editorial policy. But, lest you think they are too separate, consider this.

We all knew this was happening, but it's interesting to see an insider from the Bush administration admit it. Yesterday's LA Times carries an OpEd piece from Joseph D. Rich - the former head of the voting section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.

I saw this this morning on the Politech email list, and thought it was worth reading - people were clamoring for election reform, and got some - now what do we do to get rid of it??

(Warning: You might really hate this story.) This story represents
months of original research by Black Box Voting. We went into this
looking for the defense industry contractors we'd heard had lobbied for
the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). That legislation has been blamed for
the touch-screens (DREs) that showed up all over America. Well, that's
not what we found. The real story on who was behind HAVA may come as a
surprise to you. It was to us..

Permission to reprint and distribute granted, with link to
http://www.blackboxvoting.org

The Recent HBO Documentary Hacking Democracy is now available online. Thanks to Google Video for hosting this. Let us know if there are any problems with this video - it's our first Google video that we've tried to put up here. This is a great thing to watch on election day - PLEASE go and vote first before you watch it, or you might be too discouraged. This should be more of a reminder to you that it is important that you go to vote, and make the vote as lopsided as possible, to try to counteract all of the attempts at vote fraud.  This is only one of the means. 

Greg Palast has been talking about this, and writing about this for years now. It's about bloody time someone noticed:

HOW THEY STOLE THE MID-TERM ELECTION -

by Greg Palast

In a new story, the Brad Blog outlines how Diebold managed to keep SAIC's full report on the security flaws in their voting machines from ever reaching the Maryland officials that were investigating the problems. This report includes the full original report. Yet again we see Diebold manipulating the truth about their system.

What method are you going to be using to vote next week? Personally I really miss putting my mark on a good ol' paper ballot - which I could do here up until this year. Maybe next year I'll get to do it again.