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Wisc. AG's Office Denies Voter Reg. Suit is Political
The Wisconsin attorney general's office is standing firmly by its claim that Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's suit against the Government Accountability Board is not political -- despite an audio recording discovered yesterday of Van Hollen promising action on voter fraud to a Republican audience, weeks before he filed suit.
"It's a very good and compelling speech that reiterates what he's been talking about for two years," Kevin St. John, a spokesman from the AG's office told WisPolitics.com, the site that originally discovered the audio of Van Hollen's speech at the Republican National Convention on Sept. 4.
"You'll be hearing much more from the Department of Justice in the coming months about doing what we can to make sure that those people who have illegally and illegitimately registered to vote, don't have the opportunity on election day to show up and take away your vote by casting one that is not legal," Van Hollen says in the audio recording from the RNC.
St. John pointed to a letter (pdf) Van Hollen sent to the GAB -- which oversees state elections -- on August 27, which states that he will be pushing for the board to meet HAVA compliances in demanding that they verify all of the voter registrations filed since January 2006.
"The Attorney General has given many public statements about the right to vote and to enforce the law," St. John said to WisPolitics.com. "Illegal voting is wrong and the Attorney General's office should work within the powers of the office to enforce the law and protect the right to vote."
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Ah yes, Mr. Squeaky Clean Van Hollen. Whose own voter registration wouldn't pass the test he's imposing -
http://www.milwaukeeworld.com/blog/2008/09/van-hollen-or-vanhollen-jbs-voting.html
"If I were up to the sort of mischief our attorney general promotes, I'd head up to Polling Place #2, 333 S. Madison Street in Waunakee, Wisconsin on election day and challenge JOHN BYRON VANHOLLEN when he shows up to vote. VANHOLLEN, born February 19th, 1966, better known by the alias "J. B. Van Hollen," is the attorney general of the state of Wisconsin. He's been busy meddling with the state court system to insist that election commission officials go through a punctilious scrutiny of voters which he feels is mandated by the HAVA act.
I don't think he'd pass his own test. . .."
Oh, and note this interesting piece about his refusal to participate in a multi-state lawsuit against predatory lenders . .. could it be because he owns stock in some of these companies?
http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHjY
"Wisconsin Attorney General JB Van Hollen refused to join a civil lawsuit along with 11 other states against one of the nation's largest predatory lenders, which just netted a record-$8.4 billion settlement. Financial disclosure records show Van Hollen owned stock totaling as much as $150,000 in at least three subprime lenders. . . ."
October 7, 2008 1:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
THE GOP WHITE HOUSE has been flumaxed by the integrity of some US ATTORNEYS who had resigned or been fired for NOT JOINING THIS COINTELPRO SCAM.
NOW...GOP SCUM...USE THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERALS TO DO THE DIRTY WORK.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CONYERS--PELOSIWHORE--REID are the pussies that they are.
If they would have talked to me about testifying........CHENEY AND WHITE HOUSE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN PRISON BY NOW???????????
October 7, 2008 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is about time the people of the USA pushed for uniform standards for Voting, Vote counting, How Polls are run, When they open and close, who is allowed to register, who is denied the right to vote How they can regain the right to vote. Who why and when registrations can be challenged. Who can count votes and under what conditions. Who programs the machines, and who can look at the programs. How districts have to be drawn. How much money is raised and who meets with the office holder. All these things need to be made more open and transparent so there is no advantage and only criminal consequences for screwing around with the voting systems.
I my self believe that those with power, allow the system to be messy because the noise of chaos, allows them to maintain control and power.
October 8, 2008 5:14 PM | Reply | Permalink