I saw a tour bus with Illinois plates being filled up with, let's say, unkept individuals quite happy to get a pack of cigarettes as they boarded the bus immediately after leaving the polling location. This was early voting, broad daylight in downtown Milwaukee. I did not report it so I am sure it is a coincidence I saw the
only couple dozen packs of cigs being handed out.
COUNTING THE VOTE: WISCONSIN; G.O.P. in Wisconsin Collects Election Complaints and Considers Asking for a Recount (Published 2000)
"In the meantime, Republicans have publicized complaints they say they have received about the voting process. The state party set up a toll-free telephone line, and Rick Graber, the chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party, said that about 1,000 complaints had been logged, most in the Democratic stronghold of Milwaukee County, but some in Green Bay, Madison and Fond du Lac. On Friday, Mr. Graber announced that he had asked the Milwaukee County district attorney, E. Michael McCann, to investigate.
Mr. McCann, a Democrat, said today that he was taking the accusations seriously, but that so far he had found ''no evidence of massive voter fraud.'' He said his staff had verified that one Democratic campaign worker acting on her own bought 40 packs of cigarettes, and that she and other people distributed them to 15 to 25 homeless men as an inducement to send in absentee ballots."
Keep pretending like these semantics are winning. There is fraud, just not "massive" whatever that means. Fraud arguments always die death by a thousand paper cuts.
If it is no big deal - lets just put everyone at ease and eliminate the debate with Voter ID and paper ballots on election day. Make it a national holiday and absentee ballots are available but not just b/c you are lazy.