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Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.
Kevin, who is a legislative aide to state Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, “INTERchange,” on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, in Franklin.
More evidence to support photo ID
By Kevin Fischer
Tuesday, Feb 26 2008, 10:12 PM
While filling in for Mark Belling on WISN Monday afternoon, I talked about photo ID. I referenced a blog Senator Mary Lazich posted earlier this month about a major study by American University that shows photo ID’s are not obstacles to voting.
Then I discussed how Wisconsin is going to blow a golden opportunity to finally adopt a photo ID requirement because Democrats who control the state Senate will not allow a vote on a constitutional amendment on photo ID to take place before the current legislative session runs out on March 13th.
The constitutional amendment must pass two consecutive sessions of the Legislature, and then be approved by voters in a statewide referendum.
After the Legislature approved three photo ID bills, only to see all three vetoed by Governor Doyle, the constitutional amendment requiring photo ID was introduced on May 3, 2005. The state Assembly passed the amendment, 57-36, on November 1, 2005. The state Senate then passed the amendment, 19-14, on March 9, 2006.
The amendment must now be approved in this, the current session of the Legislature before it can go to voters in a referendum. On April 17, 2007, the state Assembly approved the amendment, 54-43. Now the amendment must be approved by the state Senate, but its fate is all but dead. Democrat leaders in the Senate are refusing to schedule the amendment for consideration.
Wisconsinites would certainly vote to change our state constitution, if they had the chance. According to a statewide survey released by the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute in October 2005, “Wisconsin residents, by a 63% to 30% margin, clearly favor a constitutional amendment to require photo ID’s for voting. This number is slightly less than general support for the measure where 69% of the residents support requiring photo ID’s to vote, while only 27% oppose such a requirement.”
The measure could have been on the ballot April 1, 2008. Thanks to Jim Doyle, who pressured Senate Democrats, former Senate Majority Leader Judy Robson, who could have scheduled the measure for a vote when she was in charge of the senate, but didn’t, current Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker, and Senator Spencer Coggs who chairs the senate Elections Committee and refuses to hold a hearing and executive session on the amendment, state voters are being denied an opportunity to vote on the idea.
Remember that.
Remember who prevented this popular, common sense requirement from becoming law.
That was the discussion on WISN on Monday.
The very next day, the Milwaukee Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit issued a lengthy report regarding the widespread voter fraud in the City of Milwaukee in the November 2, 2004 election.
Here’s a brief excerpt from the “Recommendations” portion of the report:
“It is the opinion of the Task Force investigators that more than any other recommendation we could make, our investigation has concluded that the one thing that could eliminate a large percentage of fraud or the appearance of fraudulent voting in any given Election is the elimination of the On-Site or Same Day voter registration system.”
Two paragraphs later, the report adds:
“As an alternative, if On-Site registration is to continue in its present form, then the presentation of a government issued identification card that includes the voter’s name, address (including city) and date of birth should be presented before that person is allowed to register and vote.”
Here's the entire report. (H/T: Brian Fraley)
Everyone in the state realizes that an important piece to restoring honesty and credibility to our voting system is to require photo ID…..everyone, that is except Jim Doyle, Senate Democrats, and Democrats who support voter fraud because they feel they benefit.
CFSW HAS WORKED HARD TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY- NOW IT'S TIME TO SAY THANK YOU !
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