From Wispolitics:
Robert Monroe, a 50-year-old Shorewood health insurance executive, was charged Friday with 13 felonies related to his voting a dozen times in five elections between 2011 and 2012 using his own name as well as that of his son and his girlfriend's son.
"During 2011 and 2012, the defendant, Robert Monroe, became especially focused upon political issues and causes, including especially the recall elections," the complaint asserts in its introduction.
According to those records, Monroe was considered by investigators to be the most prolific multiple voter in memory. He was a supporter of Gov. Scott Walker and state Sen. Alberta Darling, both Republicans, and allegedly cast five ballots in the June 2012 election in which Walker survived a recall challenge.
The first election Monroe allegedly voted more than once was in the April 2011 Supreme Court race in which incumbent David Prosser faced Joanne Kloppenburg, a race so close that it eventually led to a recount.
His excuse was of course a good one:
According to the John Doe records, Monroe claimed to have a form of temporary amnesia and did not recall the election day events when confronted by investigators.
That excuse reminds me of this excuse when asked about emails he had actually written:
Lie like hell.....I don't remember doing that..
ReplyDeleteALWAYS projection with these guys. Every time!
ReplyDeleteThis case highlights what ought to be the main issue in the attorney general race this year: will the attorney general investigate and prosecute all the republicans who are voting in multiple jurisdictions? There is an urgent need to compare statewide voter lists in Wisconsin against lists of voters in Florida, Texas, Arizona, North Carolina, for a start, to find all the Wisconsin voters who are voting in person in one jurisdiction and voting absentee in their summer or winter homes. That's where the real voter fraud is going on.
ReplyDeleteOr "social welfare" organizations like United Sportsmen of Wisconsin collecting absentee ballots, and throwing out the ones of the people they think will vote Dem. Follow the money, folks.
DeleteBased on their tactics in the Doe case, I predict that if the next AG does try to prosecute GOP vote fraud, Republicans will complain that it's a biased, partisan witch hunt because Democrats aren't being similiarly targeted. Never mind whether there are any Dem suspects, the GOP will insist that the AG go find some.
DeleteI think a database comparing Wisconsin voters with voters in other states to weed out a few felons would be a tremendous waste of time and money. How do you tell which John Schultz among the thousands of them voted more than once? It's much more effective to severely punish someone who engages in a repeated scheme of multiple voting with a severe prison sentence. Make an example of them so that the drunken boys around the bar at the country club won't think it's such a clever idea anymore.
ReplyDeleteWe should remember that such a database can also be used to stifle voting, as was done in Florida by Republicans when they disenfranchised thousands of blacks with common names.
So it seems voting fraud does exist after-all. Now it seems to me that if we had photo ID this guy wouldn't have been able to cheat. I don't support voter fraud for any candidate.
ReplyDeleteTry again, Anon 9:58am. It's absentee ballot fraud and the same guy voting under his name in multiple locations. Voter ID would do ZERO to stop this.
DeleteI've said all along that voter fraud only exists because conservatives know how to do it. They vote for their parents in the nursing home and/or their apathetic adult children.
DeleteThat's the only true way you can do voter fraud in WI. Say you're your mom or dad if you know they're not voting.
Republicans think liberals go in and say a stranger's name as if that wouldn't have people getting busted left and right because they show up and John Smith at 123 Main Street has already voted.
Absentee ballots have long been the bailiwick of right wing voter fraud.
ReplyDeleteA large "reward" fund would be useful. Large rewards for turning in absentee ballots fraud, voter caging fraud, etc. might prompt clerical and administrative people to turn in any Republican "names" who coordinate such schemes. In fact, if clerical/admin staff were smart, they'd record and videotape such meetings and discussions to turn in GOP scammers for a hefty reward.
ReplyDeleteHuh. A health executive. The very people who are trying to undermine ObamaCare. They are so scared that they will actually have to provide healthcare in exchange for insurance premiums (instead of building fancy skyscrapers and paying themselves exorbitant salaries). Throw Monroe in prison and let the people he fears most take care of him.
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