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seacaves Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-11 05:49 PM
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Republican deception hits Wisconsin poll workers now!! WHOW

What will they do next? The hits just keep coming!


bluecheddar1 Republican deception hits Wisconsin poll workers now - blue cheddar blog - j.mp/thtpgz #WI #wiunion #GOP #fail 4 seconds ago ·


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http://www.waunakeetribune.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&ArticleID=5422


Republican deception hits Wisconsin poll workers now
November 11, 2011
By bluecheddar

Republicans are reviving a state law which is already on the books but hasn’t been used in recent memory. It’s going to make being a clerk in Wisconsin more difficult at a time when clerks are already bracing themselves for implementation of the new voter ID law.

The law states that for *first consideration* for either a volunteer or paid poll worker slot, you have to be either a Dem or GOP member and appear on a list provided by the party. But the calls and emails put out by the GOP suggest that the workers MUST join a political party. And they suggest that the workers must join the Republican party.

From an article in Waunakee Tribune

“Deceptive tactics?
…First, the callers give the impression that the municipal clerks have referred them, and secondly, they tell elections inspectors that if they want to keep working, they have to join a political party, Hermann-Brown said.

“They can make the phone calls. They can submit a party list to the clerk, but the pretense they’re making these calls under is not right,” Hermann-Brown said.

Hermann-Brown added that most of the poll workers are independent and not affiliated with any political party.”

Diane Hermann-Brown, City of Sun Prairie Clerk, is the elections communications chair for the the Wisconsin Municipal Clerks Association.

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