Rep. Taylor Urges GAB to Request Critical Funds for Voter ID Information Campaign

Rep. Taylor Urges GAB to Request Critical Funds for Voter ID Information Campaign

Legislature has an obligation to fund needed campaign

MADISON – Today, the Government Accountability Board (GAB) held their April 2016 board meeting. Rep. Taylor (D-Madison) appeared at the meeting and urged GAB members to formally request funding from the legislature for a comprehensive Voter ID information campaign. Though Democrats strongly oppose this law, which suppresses individuals’ ability to vote, particularly people of color, individuals with disabilities and students, most legal challenges to the law were unsuccessful and Wisconsinites are now required to present a specific photo identification for voting. Under the 2011 Voter ID law, the state was also required to fund a public information campaign but has failed to provide funds to execute this campaign. After her remarks in front of the GAB, Rep. Taylor issued the following statement:

“Few things are more precious in a democracy than a person’s right to vote. The enactment of one of the most restrictive Voter ID laws in the country is compounded by the fact that Republicans have failed to provide the funding necessary to execute a public education campaign that, for the most part, the GAB has already prepared and is ready to launch. It is imperative that every person eligible to vote is able to do so in the August primaries and the November general elections, but the Voter ID law is very restrictive and complex. The state has an obligation to make sure each voter knows what they will be required to present to be able to vote.”

“The GAB needs to immediately request funds from the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) to begin this desperately needed campaign, and the JFC should immediately provide these funds. We saw a high turnout in the April election, but it would have been even higher if everyone knew what documents they needed to cast their vote, and we have heard many stories of individuals who were turned away from the polls or simply gave up waiting in long lines.  We know that approximately 1 million more voters are expected in the general election this November. It is our responsibility to ensure that the millions of Wisconsinites who want to exercise their right to vote have the necessary information and documentation to vote. As legislators, we should be doing everything in our power to make it easier, not harder, to vote.”

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Madison, WI 53708

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Taylor, Stakeholders Call on GOP to Fund Voter ID Information Campaign

Taylor, Stakeholders Call on GOP to Fund Voter ID Information Campaign

Campaign required as state prepares for 1 million additional voters in November

MADISON – Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison), joined by the League of Women Voters, local election officials and community members, called on Republican leadership to release funding to the Government Accountability Board (GAB) for a comprehensive Voter ID informational campaign.  Under 2011 Wisconsin Act 23, the Voter ID law, the state was required to fund a comprehensive public information campaign so voters understood the new law and what would be required for them to vote.  Because of a variety of injunctions that delayed the implementation of this law designed to suppress voting, this required campaign never occurred. 

On April 5^th, there were many instances of voters being turned away from the polls because they did not have the correct identification, of confusion as to the required documents and of delays in being able to vote.  In the City of Madison, there were 123 provisional ballots cast, with only 41 ultimately being counted.  As reported in numerous media accounts, students were particularly impacted, with hours-long lines on several campuses.

“While we know suppressing our ability to vote is the true intention behind this Voter ID legislation, the state hasn’t fulfilled their obligation to educate voters about this convoluted, nonsensical new law,” said Rep. Taylor.  “The spring elections revealed that many Wisconsinites lacked the necessary documentation to vote.  As I tell my kids at home, if you’re going to change the rules, you need to let everyone else know.  The solution here is simple – the GOP just needs to follow the law that they wrote.”

Under the Voter ID law, the public informational campaign was supposed to take place in advance of the first regularly schedule primary and election to which the identification requirements applied.  Due to litigation, including a March 2012 injunction that prevented the law from going into effect and various other implementation delays, the voter education campaign the GAB originally planned was only briefly implemented.

“This fall, we are expecting at least one million more voters than we did in the Spring Election earlier this month.  Given the problems Wisconsinites experienced at the polls on April 5, it is clear that we have much more work to do when it comes to educating the electorate on this newly-implemented law.  We need the GAB to request the needed funds and the Legislature to release these funds to the GAB now,” said Andrea Kaminski, Executive Director for the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin.

In addition to the press conference, Rep. Taylor started an online petition at Change.org that the public can sign.  She has also written to the GAB encouraging them to again formally request this funding.  Rep. Taylor also was the lead author of Assembly Bill 987 which appropriated $500,000 for a Voter ID informational campaign.  The bill died at the end of this legislative session. 

Office of Representative Chris Taylor

306 West – (608) 266-5342

PO Box 8953

Madison, WI  53708

Christian Schneider Fact Free Fraud

By Jeff Simpson 

Christian Schneider is at it again. Pushing his right wing propaganda, This time, he even uses some real numbers(and bad math) but swings and misses on the actual point.

Schneider is sent out to tell us, the line that every right winger in WIsconsin, could not wait to tell as often as possible(emphasis mine).  

But if voter ID was intended as a voter suppression tool, it has failed miserably.  In Tuesday’s spring primary elections – elections that the Journal Sentinel called a “test” for the new voter ID law - voting spiked sharply.  Further, as of Tuesday night, no reports had surfaced of people not being able to vote because they lacked proper identification.

Like everything else Schneider rights there was not much truth to his whole story.  We know that in the February primaries, a Veteran of Iwo Jima was a war hero when he fought for our country but was unable to vote in WI!  

In her letter, Bradley said her uncle had fought at Iwo Jima, the bloody World War II battle that was immortalized in a photo of the U.S. flag being raised on the tiny Pacific island. Tuesday marked the 71st anniversary of the 1945 flag raising.Bradley's uncle, Leo Olson of Reedsburg, tried to use his veterans ID card to vote in last week's primary for a seat on the state Supreme Court, but that form of identification can't be used under the state's voter ID law. 

Olson does not have a driver's license.

In the last election, a 58 year old African American Wisconsinite, was unable to vote despite the fact he had three different forms of ID with him:

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said his state’s strict new voter-ID requirement worked “just fine” in the April 5 primary, but thousands of Wisconsinites were unable to cast a ballot because of the new law. One of them was Eddie Lee Holloway Jr.

Holloway, a 58-year-old African-American man, moved from Illinois to Wisconsin in 2008 and voted without problems, until Wisconsin passed its voter-ID law in 2011. “I never miss voting,” he said. He brought his expired Illinois photo ID, birth certificate, and Social Security card to get a photo ID for voting, but the DMV in Milwaukee rejected his application because the name on his birth certificate read “Eddie Junior Holloway,” the result of a clerical error when it was issued.

But wait there is more!!  They also disenfranchised a blind man:

Leroy Switlick has voted for 46 years in his hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. But Switlick, who is legally blind, was unable to obtain a piece of photo identificationthat would comply with the state’s strict new voter ID law to cast a regular ballot in Tuesday’s primary.  

Then there was the case of the woman who moved her 5 months ago from Illlinois and she has a disability that limits her movement:

Kari Venteris of Madison also had to vote with a provisional ballot Tuesday. The 41-year-old has a disability that makes it difficult for her to get around; she moved from Illinois to Wisconsin in December and hadn’t yet had a chance to get a Wisconsin driver’s license. When a friend told her that she actually couldn’t vote with her Illinois license, she contacted Wisconsin’s chapter of Election Protection. Her birth certificate is in Illinois, so she wasn’t able to get an acceptable form of photo ID before the primary. 

Or The 22 year old member of the Ho-Chunk nation who tried to use his tribal ID card:

 Ben Krause-Decorah, a 22-year-old member of the Ho-Chunk Nation who lives in Waukesha, interacted with some confused or uneducated poll workers when he went to vote Tuesday. He presented his tribal identification card, which Wisconsin considers an acceptable form of photo ID to vote, but the poll workers he interacted with asked him if his ID was “real” and requested that he use his driver’s license instead, saying it would be “easier for everyone” if he didn’t try to use his tribal ID.

Like every law passed by the WISGOP, other red states keep mysteriously passing the exact same laws. They do not work any better, anywhere else.  

Schneider, and the rest of the WISGOP, also pretend that this never happened.  

 It does not surprise me that Christian Schneider once again plays loose with the facts, it also does not surprise me that Mr. Schneider is blind to the plight of minorities, veterans and the disabled in our community(interestingly, the exact same groups of people opponents of voter ID said would be affected).

It does however, surprise me that Mr. Schneider is continually allowed to spew fact free propaganda from a newspaper that is desperately attempting to be credible.  

The question we have to ask ourselves, is-- How many Americans being denied their Constitutional right to vote is acceptable?  

Why is the GOP Obsessed with Making it Harder to Vote?

By Chris Taylor 

Why is the GOP Obsessed with Making it Harder to Vote? 

Legislative Republicans fail to fund Voter ID education campaign

MADISON – Last week, ProPublica published an article, “Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law Requires an Education Campaign, Which the State Hasn’t Funded,” which outlined how legislative Republicans shirked their responsibility to run a Voter ID public-service campaign as required by the 2011 Voter ID law.  Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison) released the following statement:

“From re-writing Wisconsin’s laws to exempt themselves from political investigations to refusing to implement the education campaign requirements of their own Voter ID bill – it is clear that legislative Republicans believe they are above the law.

“Instead of choosing to fulfill the Government Accountability Board’s (GAB) October request to Senate Republican leadership for additional dollars, legislative Republicans were more focused on rigging Wisconsin’s elections and protecting their own jobs.  Around the time of this request, Assembly Bill 388, retaliatory legislation which eliminated Wisconsin’s nationally renowned, non-partisan GAB, was steamrolled through the Assembly and Senate by Republican leadership approximately one month after being introduced.  This is a perfect example of how legislative Republicans can move at the speed of light when they want to. 

“Almost one month before the Senate adjourned on March 15, I circulated legislation (Assembly Bill 987) which would have provided the GAB with $500,000 for a Voter ID public information campaign.  If legislative Republicans could pass legislation through both houses in a month which abolished and completely recreated a state agency, they could have found time to give the GAB the money it needed to conduct the statutorily required education campaign on the new law’s requirements.

“The GOP can pull out their list of excuses as to why they chose to ignore a provision of their own bill and multiple requests for funding, but at the end of the day it really leaves me wondering, why are legislative Republicans so obsessed with making it harder for Wisconsinites to vote?”

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Office of Representative Chris Taylor

306 West – (608) 266-5342

PO Box 8953

Madison, WI  53708

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

By Jeff Simpson

Scott Walker in his 6 year regime, has signed or made changes to 33 different pieces of legislation aimed at making it harder for YOU to vote.

As Wisconsin's own Paul Weyrich, one of the leaders of the modern Republican party, tells us, he does not want everyone to vote.  The more of us that vote the less power he has.

However, despite all of the efforts to make it harder to vote, it is still possible and we need to show up in force.   Dane County made this video to let us know how, and were even able to secure Chad Vader as the star!

This from Andrea Kaminski, from the League of Women Voters(an organizatuion that actually WANTS you to vote)!

Get ready to vote in four big elections
Judging by the headlines, you might think the only election this year is the one that will name President Obama’s successor. In fact, Wisconsin will have four important elections in 2016:

• In the Feb. 16 primary, voters will select the two top candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court as well as for any local and county races with more than two contenders.

• On April 5 we will elect the final winner for those contests and also vote for our favorite presidential candidate to be the nominee of his or her party.

• The fall partisan primary election will be held Aug. 9 for Congress and the Wisconsin Legislature. In districts that are heavily Democratic or Republican, the primary election is particularly decisive.

• On Nov. 8 we will elect the next president along with our state and federal representatives.

Now is the time to get ready to vote. If you have not voted in Wisconsin before, or if your registration has lapsed, you will need to register. If you have a Wisconsin driver’s license or state ID card, you will have to provide that number. You will also need proof of residence. To learn more, contact your municipal clerk or go to the Wisconsin voter information website at myvote.wi.gov.
Once you are registered, you will need a photo ID when you vote. If you have a Wisconsin driver’s license or state ID with an expiration date of Nov. 4, 2014 or later, you are all set. For a list of all acceptable IDs, talk to your clerk or go to the Wisconsin photo ID website at bringit.wi.gov. If you don’t have a photo ID, you can get one for free. Instructions are on the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin website.
If you need assistance with voter registration or photo ID, contact your local League of Women Voters or the League’s state office at 608-256-0827.
Next you’ll need to get informed. The League sends a questionnaire to federal, state as well as local candidates in some areas. We will post their answers on our elections website, VOTE411.org. In addition, some local Leagues post voter guides on their individual websites. The League does not endorse or oppose any political candidate or party. We just post candidates’ answers verbatim, so voters can make up their own minds.
There are a couple of things we urge voters not to do:

• Don’t be discouraged if you do not currently possess an acceptable photo ID. The League, the DMV and others are happy to assist you.

• Don’t put much stock in 30-second ads about candidates. They often present information out of context, and sometimes it’s flat-out false. Look for information from unbiased sources, or get it from the candidates themselves.

Wisconsin is known for high voter turnout, compared to other states. Even so, a relatively small number of eligible citizens vote in our elections. At the local, state and national levels, government affects many aspects of our everyday lives. Don’t let a small number of citizens choose your representatives. Take a little time now to be sure you are prepared, and then vote in every election.

Please VOTE in every election this year!!!

Scott Walker (Dis)Honors Veterans

By Jeff Simpson 

Scott Walker issued this statement on Veterans Day:

America is the land of the free and home of the brave.  The rights and freedoms we enjoy every day in this nation come at a steep cost, one that is paid by our veterans and active servicemen and women.  On Veterans Day, and every day, we honor our veterans for their bravery, and we will continue our work to ensure they have the resources needed to pursue their piece of the American Dream upon return from service.

The rest of the year though he has shown how little he cares for Veterans by passing a Voter ID law where Veterans ID's are not eligible.

Hundreds of thousands of service men and women were honored this Veterans Day. But there's one thing those vets are asking for… the right to vote with their form of identification.
Right now in Wisconsin, a military ID issued by the U.S. Uniformed Service is valid. But an ID issued by the Veterans Administration is not valid at the polls.
“Some veterans are so disabled they can't drive, but they do have a veterans card so it would expedite everything a whole lot better being able to use it,” says veteran Steve Coach.
Tom Yetter, volunteer representative with the Guard and Reserve says it can become difficult for veterans to get proper forms of identification to vote.
“There are circumstances where veterans are disabled or for one reason or other and they don't have a driver's license. Now, they would be forced to go out and get some other form of official government identification, when they already have a government identification card that's very well documented in the first place.

Scott Walker loves having his picture taken with Veteran's, as long as they do not ask him for the right to vote when they come home!  Or treat our flag with respect!

 

Maybe if Scott Walker was not busy spending $90,000 of Wisconsin taxpayer money a day on his blind ambition, he could stay around WI and actually learn something from the union members he likes to demonize.



At least he did not have an American hero and veteran thrown downt he stairs in the Capitol for singing.

Republican Racial Mindset

On the 6/19 Mitch Henck Show on 92.1FM in Madison, Steve nASS staffer, Mike Mikalsen was on a roundtable discussion with Bret Hulsey.

The debate turned to race, where Bret Hulsey called him out on Republicans trying to put obstacles in the way of minorities voting and called Republican policies, at their core racist.

Mike Mikalsen, had this response(at the 1:40 mark of the podcast):

 " For Those people, they couldnt have a checking account, they cant conduct daily life, they couldn't get on an airplane. What you would want us to believe, is there is this huge group of people, and they happen to be in your argument, African Americans, who apparently dont participate in society in any way, shape or form.  when they go sign up for welfare they have to bring identification of some kind.  When they sign up for services, or when they run their own lives in terms of checking accounts.  You would have us believe that all of these folks who operate in society, and happen to be of one race, are incapable of having ID's" 

Thanks to Mr. Mikalsen, for showing the true colors of the party.  Why would the ONE example that he would use when discussing minorities and ID's be - Welfare? Could it be that is what the Republicans think when they think of African Americans?  Could it be that  they truly believe all African Americans are a drain on the system?  Is that why the Republicans in Wisconsin have given up trying to create jobs and instead spend their time punishing the poor with waste of resources drug tests and telling them what foods they can and cant buy?

Did Mr. Mikalsen just show the Republicans hand?

PS:  If Mr. Mikalsen had done any research at all, he would find that the majority of people on welfare are white, however they have stars upon thars like him so that is OK,

Looking at national numbers, most of the people who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are actually white. U.S. Department of Agriculture data from 2013, which administers welfare, 40.2 percent of SNAP recipients are white, 25.7 percent are Black, 10.3 percent are Hispanic, 2.1 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent are Native American.

0.000000031%

By Jeff Simpson

Justin Levitt, a professor at the Loyola University Law School and an expert in constitutional law and the law of democracy, with a particular focus on election administration and redistricting has done an exhaustive study. 

Professor Levitt has studied elections since 2000, and while not exactly scientific its still very telling:

So far, I’ve found about 31 different incidents (some of which involve multiple ballots) since 2000, anywhere in the country. If you want to check my work, you can read a comprehensive list of the incidents below.
To put this in perspective, the 31 incidents below come in the context of general, primary, special, and municipal elections from 2000 through 2014. In general and primary elections alone, more than 1 billion ballots were cast in that period.
Some of these 31 incidents have been thoroughly investigated (including some prosecutions). But many have not. Based on how other claims have turned out, I’d bet that some of the 31 will end up debunked: a problem with matching people from one big computer list to another, or a data entry error, or confusion between two different people with the same name, or someone signing in on the wrong line of a pollbook.

The professor has found that the amount of voter fraud in the US since 2000 is approximately 0.000000031 %.  He has also studied the other side of the - voter suppression:

In just four states that have held just a few elections under the harshest ID laws, more than 3,000 votes (in general elections alone) have reportedly been affirmatively rejected for lack of ID. (That doesn’t include voters without ID who didn’t show up, or recordkeeping mistakes by officials.)  Some of those 3,000 may have been fraudulent ballots.  But how many legitimate voters have already been turned away?

Considerably more Americans are being affected by voter suppression laws than are helping make sure elections are "legit".

No wonder our friends on the right are so eager to pass this legislation.  

Chad Vader - Voter ID!

Scott Walker Planned to Fail

By Jeff Simpson

I had an old sales manager that used to always say "If you fail to plan you plan to fail.".   Which was the first thing I thought of this morning when I read Dee Hall's story in the Wisconsin State Journal(emphasis mine).

Three state agencies charged with implementing voter ID for the Nov. 4 election say they have no additional money set aside to help voters and state workers comply with the newly reinstated requirement.
But municipal clerks in Wisconsin’s two largest cities say they will spend thousands of dollars and hire hundreds of poll workers in the next few weeks to ensure that voters have the proper government-issued photo identification when casting their ballots.
Spokesmen for the three state agencies — the Government Accountability Board, the Division of Motor Vehicles and the Department of Health Services — all say they are using existing staff and resources to handle the demand.
In addition, the accountability board says it has no money for a public information or outreach campaign to ensure voters are aware of the requirement. GAB spokesman Reid Magney said the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee has asked the agency to develop a budget request by Sept. 30, which it will consider at its quarterly meeting sometime after that.
Gov. Scott Walker’s spokeswoman, Laurel Patrick, said the state — which fought a long legal battle to have the stalled requirement put back into force — has no estimate of how much it will cost to implement voter ID.

Despite the fact that the original Voter ID bill was held up on court, the republicans in Wisconsin kept trying desperately to pass something that held Constitutional muster.    It was such an important issue, one could argue THE most important issue to Scott Walker that he was considering holding a special session to pass a Voter ID law**.   

So to clarify, this is the single issue that Scott Walker and the republican party of Wisconsin feel is the most important issue to the people of WI.   Scott Walker then hit his goal when the Voter ID law was implemented by a very very friendly judge with a questionable past. 

The problem is now his lack of governing abilities was exposed once again.   His most important issue gets fully implemented as he wished and we have no idea costs, benefits, information, or any idea what this law will truly bring.  

Its almost as if Scott Walker planned to fail.    

 

 

 

** Luckily for the state of Wisconsin, the republicans in the State legislature are adverse to actually workin, so no such special session was called.   

There is Confusion Allright!

By Jeff Simpson

The Wisconsin republicans, have unethically, gerrymandered and have enacted highly partisan downright embarrassing districts in our great state, and enacted the most restrictive voter id law in the state, to go along closing DMV sites all over Wisconsin.  

Now they are worried that the layout of ballot might confuse voters. 

The irony and hypocrisy on the right, is so thick you need a chainsaw.  


Robin Vos/Scott Fitzgerald know no shame.  

Tamra, You Have Some 'Splaining To Do!

By Jeff Simpson 

What the Heck is happening in the Racine area?   Are things as crazy as Jonathan Steitz appears to be?  Are the republicans as unethical as we all know Robin Vos to be?  Or after gerrymandering and owning all three branches of Government do our friends on the right believe that, like the Governor they all love, the rules do not apply to them?

Sorry I got ahead of myself.   Let's start at the beginning.

Local resident Tamra Varebrook, is very involved in extremist right wing politics.

Tamra is a single mom of one daughter. After many years standing on the sidelines of the political scene, she realized things were not headed in the right direction and decided to step up.
For the last three years, Tamra has been extremely active in politics in both Racine County and Statewide. She is an elected member of the Racine County GOP board. She also sits on the public relations committee, and chairs the programs and activities committee.
During the historic recall election of the Wisconsin Governor and six Senators, Tamra and her daughter put hundreds of hours fighting against the local, state, and national union machines; even agreeing to be the protest candidate for her Senator under recall, making it necessary to force primaries in all races.

Ms. Varebrook is so involved in the extremist politics she ran as a fake democrat in the recall elections, costing local taxpayers needless thousands of dollars.   No price is too high to elect republicans!

Ms. Varebrook also sees herself as a defender of the Constitution.   '

Tamra is no stranger to the local media. You can see her often speaking out in support of our constitutional rights, against big government, and most recently against the indoctrination of our children in public schools. She appeared locally and nationally on “Fox and Friends”, after discovering a Civics lesson of her eighth-grade daughter’s defining ‘conservatism’ as restricting personal freedoms.
As Tamra’s daughter grows up, and is only a few short years from adulthood, she feels the need to fight for not only hers, but her daughter’s future and freedom.

 The problem for Ms. Varebrook, is that she put the same attention to detail in reading the Constitution as she did in memorizing her address.   It appears that Ms. Varebrook may possibly have voted illegally and misrepresented her address to polling officials.  

Whoops!  

We at CogDis obtained a very well documented and sourced complaint that has been filed with the GAB! The alleged charges are as follows:

I allege that: Tamra L. Varebrook, who voted in the Presidential Preference & SpringElection of 2012 (April 3, 2013) in the city of Racine at the St. Edwards polling location,was not a qualified elector at that location and municipality and intentionally used a falseresidential address, which is a violation of Wisconsin State Statute 12:13(1)(a).Further, I allege that Tamra L. Varebrook worked as a paid poll worker at the HumblePark Community Center polling location for the Spring Primary Election on February 21,2012, in the city of Racine and was at the time, a resident of Union Grove. TamraVarebrook misrepresented herself as a qualified elections inspector to the Clerk of theCity of Racine, and to the Chief Inspector at the Humble Park polling location in violationof Wisconsin State Statute 12:13(1)(b).

I allege Tamra L. Varebrook voted at St. Edwards polling location on that same electionday (February 21, 2012) and was not a qualified elector in the city of Racine but insteada resident of Union Grove, a violation of Wisconsin State Statute 12:13(1)(a).

I allege Aubrey Willms knew Tamra Varebrook was using her address as her legal votingaddress and lied to protect Ms. Varebrook and herself from responsibility in violation ofWisconsin State Statute 12:13(1)(h).

I believe Tamra Varebrook may have voted illegally from this address before these twodates, no less than on six occasions according to VPA records.

See according to her receipt for being a POLL WORKER, she listed her address as:

According to Tamra Varebrook’s pay receipt from the Racine Clerk’s office, she listedher address as 1414 Orchard Street Racine, Wisconsin 53405.

Yet her actual address was in Union Grove, WI!  

OOPS!  

That leaves us Inquiring minds at CogDis to ask a few questions.   

*   "Has Tamra Varebrook been lying about her address to vote?"*   Does she not know where she lives?  *  Does she think that her one vote in a place where she does not even live will have        any kind of effect on the actual outcome?*  Does she support voter ID to keep herself from voting?*  Does she have a getaway planned if she gets caught?*  Will Ms. Varebrook be on "Fox and Friends" to tell people how to vote illegally?
*  Can I be on "Fox and Friends" for breaking the story of the tea party (alleged) outlaw?*  Is she also fighting for her daughter's freedom to vote in any ward she feels like voting that day?
*  How would she handle it if she were to ever catch someone on the left illegally voting?*  Will the GAB do anything about this?*  Why are these stories always always always about hardcore far right republicans?*  Was Glenn Grothman referring to Ms. Varebrook specifically when he discussed single mothers?
*  Would voting in the wrong precinct and lying about where you live to poll workers, officially be considered a Bozo No - No?
*  Since Ms. Varebrook is such a strong supporter of "school choice" could she just be supporting "voter choice" here?
*  Are there any laws that you feel applies to both Democrats and Republicans alike?*  If you spent time in prison, heaven forbid, what is the one food you would hate having to give up?
*  Finally, if you are a "conservative" what exactly are you conserving?

We at CogDis await with bated breath to see how this plays out and will bring you more details as they become available!