More WI GOP / GYP Efforts at Cheating to win the election; Recount in the Wings

I find it hilarious ever time a right winger spouts off in blustery blubbery tones that they want to see free PURE elections.  The righties LOVE that word PURE.  Except the way the use it, in the context of what they actually do --- while calling themselves 'principled Republicans' or 'family values conservatives' or whatever other euphemism they use for crooked political operative.
Once again, we have documented efforts by the right to interfere with voters, to suppress voters, to spend a lot of money to LIE to voters, deliberately misinforming them.  In practice they have no honor, they have no integrity, they have no decency, no ethics or morals, and they damned well have no principles or positive values.
What they DO, (in contrast to what they say) is NOT about PURE elections, it is not about having HONEST elections where ALL legal voters can participate and where illegal, unqualified or fraudulent voters are barred.  This is about RIGHT WING EFFORTS TO STEAL ELECTIONS.
Given how much lip service the righties give their terrors about stolen elections, it is not so surprising that they project onto others the things they themselves DO.
Our harasser, KRod actually wrote in one of his more recent attempts to comment:

Why do you hate democracy? Too much of a coward to admit it? Why do you support voter fraud? Seriously.

When I attended the Republican caucuses earlier this year, until I challenged the statement as opinion, not fact, it was represented as fact that democrats stole all the elections they won, through voter fraud. And it was accepted as fact by the other republicans despite the contradiction with their bugaboo -- a complete and utter disconnect with factual objective reality.  That group of righties, buying that line of crap were all old, white, not terribly well educated, low information tea party voters.
If you look at the FACTS, in the Coleman Franken election recoun kerfuffle, the ONLY voter found to have voted fraudulently was for COLEMAN.  The whole big protection from voter fraud by having photo ID? Yeah, that photo ID thing didn't stop the Indiana REPUBLICAN Secretary of State - the elected office TASKED with preventing voter fraud - yes, THAT GUY - from himself being convicted of engaging in felony voter fraud, USING HIS STATE APPROVED ID.  He was also convicted of some other crimes, including theft and perjury along the way.
To his credit, the attorney who so ably prosecuted him was ALSO a Republican - one of the principled kind who plays by the rules and who actually has a conscience.  That however is no longer apparently the leadership and primary supporters of the GOP, at local, state OR federal levels.
Consistently, even when investigated by the right themselves, there has been no evidence of voter fraud stealing elections - NOT BY DEMOCRATS, NOT BY REPUBLICANS, NOT BY ROVING BANDS OF NINJA LIZARD PEOPLE, NOT BY PHALANXES OF BALLOT BOX STUFFING SCHIZOPHRENIC FELONIOUS TOOTH FAIRIES.  The right engages in wholesale Voter SUPPRESSION to steal elections, and only occasionally in voter fraud on a smaller scale.
But there is plenty of evidence of voting fraud and voter suppression and election rigging and election tampering BY THE RIGHT.  AGAIN.  This time it is back in the good old Koch Brothers fiefdom of right wing Wisconsinites and other little corrupt territorial dictatorships of the rich.
As you read the following story, keep in mind that conservatives in Canada brought in to special how-to-cheat seminars American Conservative political operatives.  The use by conservatives in Canada of these 'American conservative tactics' has been thoroughly documented in the course of legal actions, and is in the process of invalidating the wins of a number of conservatives.  It SHOULD be used to invalidate the wins of any U.S. politician who uses or coordinate or just plain benefits by interfering with the civil rights to vote of any Americans. 
What does it say about a party, about their big money supporters, that they will lie to the friends, families, neighbors, members of their communities to prevent them from voting?
Maybe WE ALL should be asking the RIGHT :

"Why do you hate democracy? Why are they such cowards, afraid to compete in elections honestly? Why do they support voter fraud and voter suppression? Seriously."

Maybe the Department of Justice should be asking the people that do it, the people that fund it, and the people who run for office this way some serious questions.
From Politico:
Reports: Robo-calls lying to Wisconsin voters

By MACKENZIE WEINGER | 6/5/12 1:10 PM EDT

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said his campaign is contacting Wisconsin residents to counter reports of a robo-call that says anyone who signed a petition to recall Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t have to vote in Tuesday’s election.
Barrett, the Democrat challenging the Republican governor, said he has recorded a robo-call of his own telling people that signing a petition wasn’t enough and that they do have to cast a ballot, WisPolitics.com reported. There have been a number of reports of Wisconsin residents receiving calls saying that their signature on the recall petition counts as their vote.

“I recorded a robo-call telling people, yes, you do have to do that, and we’ll be sending that to people who signed the recall petition so they know they do have to vote,” Barrett said at a campaign event Monday night.

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Meanwhile, Barrett for Wisconsin finance director Mary Urbina-McCarthy emailed supporters late Monday, writing, “Reports coming into our call center have confirmed that Walker’s allies just launched a massive wave of voter suppression calls to recall petition signers,” according to Salon.com.
Walker’s campaign pushed back against the allegation, issuing a statement strongly denying any connection with the reported calls.
“Any accusation that our campaign is making those calls is categorically false and unfounded. Once again Mayor Barrett and his campaign are trying to falsely attack Governor Walker with absolutely no evidence. This is a desperate move by Mayor Barrett to avoid addressing his lack of a plan to create jobs in Wisconsin,” the campaign stated.
Barrett’s campaign called for supporters to encourage their friends to get out to the polls and ignore the claims in the robocalls.
“Urgent Action Needed: We’ve confirmed reports of voter suppression calls to recall petition signers. These calls tell signers that their ‘job is done’ and that they don’t need to vote on Tuesday,” the campaign’s Facebook page states. “This is a disgusting attack on our democracy and we need your help to fight back. Post this photo to your Facebook timeline and tell your friends that we need every eligible voter to cast a ballot for Tom Barrett — including recall petition signers.”
At his Monday campaign event in Milwaukee, Barrett called the robocall tactic “very, very disconcerting,” but said the source of the calls has not been identified.
“We’ve gotten numerous calls and people have stopped me and said they know of people who have been called and told it’s not necessary for them to vote,” Barrett said, according to WisPolitics.com. “Obviously, that is very, very disconcerting because of course, anybody who signed the recall petition does have to vote and it’s my sincere hope this is not a dirty trick or anything like that because it is so important for everybody, regardless of who they’re going to vote for, to get out and vote tomorrow. This is for the future of this state and to have people who reportedly are trying to discourage people from voting is simply wrong.”
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Given Walker's other shady dealings, given statements from Walker in the past like the one where he considered putting false agent provocateurs among protesters to make it look like protesters were acting badly when it was his agents.......and given the extend of the John Doe investigation of his administration...........there is NO basis whatsoever to believe Walker would tell the truth.  And there is no reason to believe the WI GOP - or the MN GOP for that matter - plans to participate in fair elections.

I hope the people who did this, all the way to the big secret money that pays for these calls, get put in jail. They can have the cells next to the Walker administration members, and with good prosecution, maybe the cell next to Walker himself.

But it isn't the Democrats trying to 'steal' elections.  It has been documented over and over - it is the right that engages in wholesale crooked, criminal election theft and public fraud.  These kinds of right wing politics are only a very short step above domestic terrorism.  They may not kill or dismember people on a large scale, but they harm them through disenfranchising them on a much larger scale than 9/11.  They should be behind bars, and they should be permanently disenfranchised, unlike other felons.

As the election day activities wind down - polls close at 8, or at least that is when the last person can get in line to vote -- the DFL in WI announces it is preparing to challenge any close results where Walker wins.  Which could make any illegalities a key factor in an initial announcement of a win being allowed to stand.  Apparently the GOP in WI isn't saying anything about recounts; but then I expect that Minnesota's GOP has embarassed the state GOP everywhere when it comes to recounts.

Maybe their big donors don't pay for those, because they can't be sure of buying an election the way they can with their other payoffs.