GOVERNMENT CONFLICTS, CORRUPTION AND INDICTMENTS

- WISCONSIN -

Date	Individual / State Agency	Who, What, Where?
01/25/05	Milwaukee	Democrats Charged in Election Day Tire-Slashing Five Democratic activists have been charged with slashing the tires of vans rented by Republicans to drive voters and monitors to the polls on Election Day. The activists are accused of flattening the tires on 25 vehicles rented by the state Republican Party to get out the vote and deliver poll watchers November 2. The GOP rented more than 100 vehicles that were parked in a lot adjacent to a Bush campaign office. The party planned to drive poll watchers to polling places by 7 a.m. and deliver any voters who didn't have a ride.
01/26/05	Milwaukee	Voter Fraud in Milwaukee In Milwaukee, 75,000 citizens registered to vote on Election Day in 2004 out of a population of 600,000. Out of that 75,000 fully 13% (or 10,000) are illegible. The Elections Commission estimates that 1/3 of the remaining 65,000 registrations for which confirmation cards have been sent will be returned as undeliverable. That means that the address for 22,000 registrations was incorrectly written or downright fictitious.