In the Horowitz-fest yesterday, I neglected discussion of, you know, real issues. (Though I must say that my traffic yesterday tripled, and it's well on its way to being doubled today because of the wingers coming to visit. I am now lamenting my lack of ads.)
So today I'll be back to it. Thursday, the Wisconsin state senate, in a Sysyphian move, once again approved the partisan Voter ID bill that Madison Republicans have been pimping for several sessions now. In doing so, they have missed another opportunity for genuine election reform that would actually cut down on the kind of fraud we have evidence of.
Afterwards, senate Democrats noted that the rush Republicans put on the bill left them no time to offer any amendments that would make a voter ID palatable to governor J-Dizzle and his posse--things like provisions "that would allow voters to show a document with their voting addresses, such as a utility bill or a bank statement, or the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, in lieu of a photo ID." These are common in other states, but Republicans said they would be unacceptable.
Again, this demonstrates that Republicans are interested in one thing and one thing only: suppression of voter turnout. Any real election reform isn't even on their radar.
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