List of Election Problems

It seems the long links in my prior table of problems is the root of my display problems. So here again (but better formatted) is the summary list of Wisconsin election problems.

Updates to this post are in green

Summary of Election Irregularities in Wisconsin. All items are for November 2, 2004 unless otherwise noted.

Bad / Corrupted Poll List.
1.	Bad Addresses	The Republican party compared the addresses from a purchased mailing list to the addresses on the electronic version of the City of Milwaukee poll list. The City claims the commercial list had bad names. The party counters only addresses were compared, not names. The party claims 37,000 invalid addresses are present on the poll list and asks that registration records for such addresses be struck. The request is denied.
Fraudulent Voter Registration
2.	Fraudulent Registrars	Claims exist that the registrars hired by Project Vote were not qualified to be election registrars. Bad Registrars Trial is pending.
3.	Fraudulent Registrations	Claims exist that the registrars hired by Project Vote were committed election fraud by submitting registrations for non-existent people. E.g. Marquis F. Murff described in this article
4.	Fraud In Room 501	Affidavits exist claiming an employee of the City Election Commission directed an election registrar to commit election fraud by directing the registrar to attest to examining identification papers of registrants when the registrar did not perform said document examination. Reported on the Mark Belling radio program by the witness to the activity
Absentee Ballot Problems
5.	Absentee vote not delivered	238 absentee ballots not delivered to polling places. Since 6,000 nearly did not get delivered, 238 is not too bad. Documented in this article
6.	Absentee vote envelope lacks Clerk Signature	The envelope containing an absentee ballot needs to be signed by the election official. In Milwaukee this is the office of the Election Commission Documented in this article
Same Day Registration.
7.	Registration Cards returned. Bad Address	Address was entered onto the registration form. But the US post office returned the card as undeliverable address. Documented in articles here and here. Some unknown portion of 7,000 to 10,000 ballots are in this category.
8.	Registration Cards returned. Person not at Address	Address was entered onto the registration form. But the resident of the address returned the card as no such person, return to sender. Documented in this article. Some unknown portion of 7,000 to 10,000 ballots are in this category.
9.	Registration Cards not mailed. (failure of officials to follow law)	City of Racine failed to mail cards from same-day registrants until asked by reports as to when the cards were mailed. Mailing is required by state statutes. In the article, note the City of Racine had failed to do any such mailings for several years.
10.	Registration Cards not mailed. (Card too illegible or incomplete to mail)	City of Milwaukee. Many cards for same day registrants were either incomplete or illegible. Here is a example of such a card from the this article. (1300 such ballots cast)
Election Day. November 2, 2004
11.	People voted from invalid addresses	Reported here and here
12.	Double voting. Vote Absentee and in person.	As reported here
13.	Non-existing people voting.	The mythical Marquis F. Murff cast a ballot on November 2, 2005
14.	Double voting. Same name voting in 2 places	An example is Nicholas J. Poethig.
15.	Felons Voted	81 felons are confirmed to have voted out of a pool of 600+ possibles. Matching by age prevents further discrimination among the pool of 600+. Reported here. More of the same.
24.	Software Failure	600 votes not counted in Medford, Wisconsin. Nice of ES&S not to charge for the defective software. The clerk in Medford used the deck of test ballots provided by ES&S.
Canvassing Problems
16.	More ballots than voters	This condition was reported here and is shown on this great map (note the 2 500+ errors are mistakes). More ballots cast than electors voting is expressly prohibited by state statute 7.51(2)(e)
17.	Last Elector not recorded in log books	As reported here . This is expressly required by state statute 7.51(2)(a).
18.	Inspectors’ reports not filled out.	This is expressly required by state statute 7.51(4). Related to SEB complaint filed by John Washburn of Germantown.
19.	Inspectors’ reports not signed by poll inspectors	This is expressly required by state statute 7.51(4). Related to SEB complaint filed by John Washburn of Germantown.
20.	Inspectors’ reports not signed by Chief inspector	This is expressly required by state statute 7.51(4). Related to SEB complaint filed by John Washburn of Germantown.
21.	Erroneous machine tallies not rejected and required hand tallies not performed	This is expressly required by state statute 7.51(2)(h). If errors are discovered in the machine tallies, the canvass must be done by hand. District 1 Germantown the machine tally was short 11 ballots, but the ballots were in the machine lock box. In Milwaukee, Neenah, Racine and elsewhere, machine tallies showed more ballots cast than electors. In still other places the machine tally showed fewer ballots cast then electors voting, but with no investigation by the poll inspectors as to the source of the discrepancy. At least Germantown found the discrepancy was from a software error.
25.	Inspector not a Resident of Municipality	On February 15, 2005 the inspectors’ report for EB-104 for ward 13, Chief Inspector, Evelyn Triscari, noted in the incident report that the poll inspector, Carol Tellef, lived in the City of South Milwaukee and not the City of Milwaukee. This is a violation of 7.30(2)(a). The incident log clearly notes that the City Election Commission was called about the problem with the residency of Ms. Tellef. But, the log also notes that Ms. Triscari was ordered to keep Ms. Tellef. This is fraud under 12.13(2)(a). The question would be fraud by which election official?
26.	Failed to Deliver Election Materials to Counties	Failure for Milwaukee county was reported here. Documents for ward 274 should have been delivered to Waukesha County. Documents for ward 262 should have been delivered to Washington county. I may have to reconsider my defense of Kevin Kennedy. "This is one of things we're discovering," said Kennedy. "You can't just do things the way you've always done them." Does this means fraud is the way we’ve always done things?
27.	County Canvasses Certified without municipal records	Milwuakee county failure is reported here. Nor was the statutorily required messenger sent to the City of Milwaukee to get the required materials.
28.	County Canvass Adds 100 Votes to Municipal Totals (added June 12, 2005)	The county clerk in Shawano county added 100 votes to the 266 cast in the Town of Herman for George Bush. This caused an erroneous entry of 366 votes to be included in the certified State canvass for the town of Herman. The county and state canvasses have since been corrected to reflect the actual vote total of 266 votes. The original story details the error was introduced at the county level and propagated to the state canvass. This has prompted Governor Doyle to chide the legislature for inaction.
Miscellaneous
22.	Investigations Stonewalled	Greg Borowski of Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel blocked on all of the lines of investigation above. Owen of Boots and Sabers blocked on the investigation of items 7,8, and 10 John of Washburn’s world blocked on the investigation of items 16-21.
23.	Alfred E. Newman syndrome	No fraud here. No fraud here that voter ID would reduce. See: any Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Editorial between November 2, 2004 to present.