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goddess40 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-13-04 01:36 PM
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What's up with Milwaukee, not enough ballots being printed!
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If you're from Milwaukee start making calls, this is outrageous that they are planning to under print the ballots.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/oct04/266144.asp
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, citing vote-fraud concerns, is
publicly balking at a City of Milwaukee request for almost 260,000
additional ballots in anticipation of high turnout for the Nov. 2
presidential election.

Mayor Tom Barrett blasted Walker's stance, and Common Council President
Willie Hines Jr. immediately joined in, saying it was an attempt to
suppress the central-city vote.

"I'm going to lay this at the footsteps of the county if there aren't
enough ballots in the city," said Barrett.

Barrett said that the 679,000 ballots the county had agreed to print were
less than the amount prepared for the presidential election in 2000 as well
as for the the gubernatorial race in 2002. He and the city's top election
official said that the city requested 938,000 ballots from the county,
which, by law, pays for and prints ballots
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