Voter Fraud and Feral Cats

Wisconsin residents back hunting feral cats

Wisconsin residents support a plan to legalize wild cat hunting, according to voting results released Tuesday.

At meetings across the state Monday night, residents in 72 counties were asked whether free-roaming cats should be listed as an unprotected species. If so listed, the cats — including any domestic cat that isn’t under the owner’s direct control or any cat without a collar — could be hunted.

A total of 6,830 voted yes and 5,201 voted no, according to results released by the Department of Natural Resources.

Governor Jim Doyle assures animal rights groups not to worry.

He said, "A proposal to legalize the killing of feral cats is not going to succeed."

"I don’t think Wisconsin should become known as a state where we shoot cats," said Doyle, a Democrat who neither hunts nor owns a cat.

"What it does is sort of hold us up as a state that everybody is kind of laughing at right now."
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So Doyle thinks that this cat issue is holding Wisconsin up for ridicule.

That may be, although other states such as Minnesota and South Dakota already allow the killing of feral cats.

If there is any reason that "everybody is kind of laughing at" Wisconsin, it's because of Gov. Doyle's refusal to protect the legitimacy of Wisconsin elections.

On Wednesday,the State Senate passed the photo I.D. bill Wednesday and it's now heading for the Governor's desk.

By a biparitsan vote of 21-12, the bill passed; but it's unlikely to become law.

Doyle asserts, "I vetoed it before. I'll veto it again. I've said that many times. They can keep sending me bills I'll veto. I don't know where that gets us."

Republicans rightly believe the photo I.D. requirement will suppress voter fraud.

Democrats argue that the bill will suppress voters, impacting minorities and the poor.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Republicans insisted that the confidence of voters has been shaken by recent disclosures about the Nov. 2 presidential vote count in Wisconsin, which Democrat John Kerry won by less than 1%.

The Journal Sentinel found spotty compliance with variety of election laws and several problems in city of Milwaukee vote totals, including totals that were never double-checked by city or county officials.

The newspaper also found a 7,000-vote gap, with more ballots than people recorded as voting; problems with vote totals at dozens of wards; some 1,200 votes cast from invalid city addresses; and votes cast by felons. The disclosures have touched off a federal probe into possible voter fraud and a state audit of election procedures statewide.

The integrity of Wisconsin's elections is in doubt; yet Democrats and the governor refuse to back efforts to restore it.

During yesterday's debate, Sen. Judy Robson insisted, like Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, that there was not a single documented case of voter fraud in Wisconsin. She backed off that statement and cited a lone instance in Green Bay.

Is she a liar or is she ignorant? For her to say what she did, she must be a liar, ignorant, or both. That's harsh, but true.

This illustrates that the Democrats need to dismiss the facts of election 2004 and create an alternative and utterly false reality to prop up their argument against the photo I.D. requirement.

Every effort must be made to assure Wisconsin residents that they are not having their votes stolen as a result of voter fraud.

Apparently, Democrat Jim Doyle believes every vote should count, even the fraudulent ones.

Doyle's words regarding feral cats certainly apply to the photo I.D. bill that he plans to veto again.

"What it does is sort of hold us up as a state that everybody is kind of laughing at right now."

Wisconsin--a state where cats are protected but voters are not.