Voter ID Debacle to Cost Taxpayers, Increase Wasteful Spending. The Walker hole gets deeper.

Repealing the voter ID legislation should and hopefully will be, one of the top priorities once Democrats regain the state legislature and governorship again. I hate to go back and negate everything a prior administration pushes through, like Republican majorities, but consider it “cleaning up” after a bunch of irresponsible thugs tear up the place.

The Milwaukee Common Council’s suggestion for revising the GOP’s voter suppression law, requiring a picture ID, is a perfect example of how incompetently the Republican legislature in responding to the mythical “voter fraud” conspiracy.

Spending and wasting more taxpayer money on nonexistent voter fraud:

jsonline: Numerous absentee ballots could be invalidated without voters' knowledge if a voter identification bill is passed, Milwaukee city officials are warning … it also would require absentee voters to send photocopies of their identification cards with their ballots … absentee ballots aren't opened until Election Day, the commission could need more workers, at an undetermined cost, to help check the identification and process the ballots that day … election officials would try to contact the voters to ask if they could produce the needed identification by the next day … But many voters cast absentee ballots because they are out of town or otherwise unavailable on election day … If an absentee ballot isn't accompanied by photo identification and the voter can't be reached, the ballot would not be counted.

The genius of putting the horse before the cart:

State lawmakers should revise the bill to require voters to show their identification when they request an absentee ballot, not when they cast it … would give staff more time to ensure voters have proper identification.

Bipartisan:

Committee members voted, 3-2, to recommend that the full council oppose the bill. The panel voted 4-0 to back (the) proposed changes and to push for issuing state ID cards at more sites.

Smart competent government, or costly taxpayer over regulation, Republican style?