February 24, 2005

"Picture of Chaos"

After listening to the BBA's favorite Journal Sentinel reporter Greg Borowski (go buy his book) on Charlie Sykes' show this morning we're at an impasse in the voter fraud story. the fed-city joint investigation is preventing reporters and weblogger from looking at voting records. Also the Elections Commission ran the election so badly it will be very hard to disern fraud from poor record keeping. Borowski told Charlie that a "picture of chaos emerged in the final days" at City Hall. Absentee ballot requests weren't filled and a bunch of union workers, staff from Gov. Doyle, and even Mayor Tom Barrett's family had to pitch in to get process thousands of voter registration cards.

Rep. Jeff Stone is exactly right when he told Charlie, "We have a system designed to allow for fraud to occur and for tremendous error." We see the error, we just don't know how much fraud occured.