Computers sought in redistricting lawsuit

[hue]

http://www.sheboyganpress.com/viewart/20130129/SHE01/301290222

MADISON — Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and other officials have been subpoenaed as part of a long-running legal fight over how the state’s latest election maps were drawn.

Two groups sued the state over the Republican-drawn maps. They want to examine certain state computers for evidence of documents the state may have wrongfully withheld, but contend that state officials won’t tell them where those computers are located.

So subpoenas were served last week on Vos; Senate Chief Clerk Jeffrey Renk; Assembly Chief Clerk Patrick Fuller; and the Legislative Technology Service Bureau, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report.

For five months, the plaintiffs have sought to search the computers used for redistricting to find out why they didn’t receive documents that were supposed to be released to them and to find out whether any other records were improperly withheld. But they haven’t been able to find out where the computers are kept.
Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca said he couldn’t understand why the state refused to tell the plaintiffs where the computers were.

“This is public property that people pay for,” the Kenosha Democrat said. “The fact they won’t share this information is beyond comprehension.”

[hue]

1. There is much, much more re:Repukes that is beyond comprehension!

Those computers are prob looong gone!! Buried in some junk pile along w/the Ark of the Covenant.

[leftyohiolib]

2. they are the biggest pack of fking children -

[Scuba]

3. K&R Thanks, hue.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Since there might be immunity from prison for state legislators

hit the others with contempt and long jail time.