This,
from the state that stole an election that put Al Franken into the
Senate and who then provided the 60th (deciding) vote to pass
Obamacare.....this guy is emulating Obama....using his position to
choose which laws to enforce and which not to....so as to enhance a
political advantage - and it's all out in the shameless open. If we lose
the rule of law, which is happening before our eyes, we lose everything.
Dane Co. Sheriff Says He Won’t Stop Felon Voters
By: Brian Sikma
In a battleground state where voter fraud has been an issue in
previous presidential elections, one leading county sheriff is saying
his office won’t stop ineligible felon voters from casting a ballot. An
internal memo from the Dane County Sheriff’s Office instructed deputies
and other staff assigned to the county jail to facilitate the absentee
ballot requests of inmates. Sent from Lt. Mark Twombly, the memo
specifically instructed law enforcement officials to not check on the
felony status of inmates and to help everyone vote regardless of their
criminal record. In Wisconsin an individual serving jail time for a
felony or under parole or supervision for a felony may not cast a
ballot.
Checking on whether or not an inmate is a felon would require a quick
and simple check of the county law enforcement’s computer system. “It
is going to be up to their polling location to research whether they
are allowed to vote based on their criminal record, not the DCSO [Dane
County Sheriff's Office],” Twombly wrote in a memo distributed to staff.
The decision by the sheriff’s office to ignore felon status for
inmate voters means that law enforcement officials will not be working
to prevent further legal violations on the part of those in their
custody.
During an in-studio radio interview
with a Madison talk show host on Monday, Sheriff Dave Mahoney attacked
the whistleblower deputy and the conservative Milwaukee talk show host who blogged
about an e-mail the deputy sent him. Mahoney called the whistleblower
and talk show host “unethical” and said he couldn’t believe one of his
officers would release the internal memo. The sheriff suggested that the
deputy acted in an unprofessional fashion.
Mahoney vigorously denied that his office is facilitating possible
voter fraud. “Absolutely not, we are not,” he told the radio show host.
But by not checking an inmate’s potential felony status, Mahoney is
shifting his own responsibility to enforce the law on to municipal
clerks. In the aftermath of Wisconsin’s hyper-intense political season
of the past 18 months, many local clerks’ offices are worn down.
When Mahoney does not enforce the law in his own jail it adds a burden to the workloads of strained municipal clerks.
An official with the Madison City Clerk’s office told Media Trackers
that it was possible for the office to check a list of those who request
absentee ballots against the State Voter Registration Service. The SVRS
is run by the Government Accountability Board, which attempts to
cross-reference the database with Department of Corrections’ records.
The GAB came under scrutiny lately
after it was found that the board, which serves as the top election
oversight agency in the state, missed an important federal deadline for
mailing absentee ballots to oversees voters, including military
personnel from Wisconsin.
According to the Madison Clerk’s office, if a voter is listed as
inactive at a particular address the absentee ballot will not be mailed.
Newly registered voters who ask for absentee ballots immediately after
registering are not immediately a part of the voter database system the
clerk’s office said.
Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus told Media Trackers that if a
crosscheck of absentee requests against the state voter file turns up an
inactive registration, clerks in her area would not send an absentee
ballot. This assumes that the state database is always up to date.
In defending his decision to let potential voter fraud slip through,
Mahoney said his present policy does not differ from that of previous
sheriffs in Dane County. Mahoney has suffered repeated criticism from
conservatives for his ongoing unwillingness to enforce the law on
liberal protesters who harass and intimidate political opponents and
staff in and around the state capitol in downtown Madison.
Dane County is the second most populous county in the state and has the highest proportional percentage of Democratic voters.
Lt. Twombly, the author of the memo prohibiting Sheriff’s Office officials from enforcing state election law, signed a petition to recall Governor Scott Walker from office.
The Dane County Sheriff may insist that his office does not have a
role in enforcing election law, but local law enforcement officials
around the state have been involved in enforcement efforts before.
Earlier this year the Racine County Sheriff’s Department was called upon
to investigate allegations of suspect election activities related to
the June recall election. During the 2004 presidential campaign the
Milwaukee Police Department played an active role in enforcing election
laws.
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