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elocs

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16. My first 40 years of voting here in WI, I didn't need to show an ID.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 07:20 PM
Apr 3

When I did in 2012 under Scott Walker in his recall election it was no big deal and even to this day the poll workers barely even glance at it other than to get my address or the spelling of my name. Any kind of voting fraud was largely unknown. But in the recall election for Walker there was a case discovered of a man who voted for him 5 times using the names of relatives to vote.
When this originally came before the courts here in WI, the judge asked the AG for cases he knew about of someone using a false name to cast a vote and he couldn't give the judge even one. In millions of ballots cast here over several years there were just a handful of voter fraud and most were people who thought they could legally vote when they could not.

When it comes to turnout, WI managed to increase the turnout for this weeks state Supreme Court election over the one just 2 years ago by half a million when everyone had to show an ID to vote. So it would seem that turnout numbers depends more on the will of the voters than anything else.

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