Radical Fringe Group Wisconsin Right to Life may have offered incentives to "bolster support" in summer recalls

UPDATE Tues. 11:50 am: It looks like Wisconsin Right to Life didn't get many takers for their gift card:

jsonline-Dan Bice: Milwaukee County prosecutors have cleared two groups - a conservative one opposing abortion rights and a liberal labor organization - of voter bribery charges after conducting a four-month John Doe probe into the allegations. "There's no prosecutive merit to these allegations," Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf said today. "In respect to both parties, they were acting in good faith."

Wisconsin Right to Life (and Wisconsin Family Action Coalition) had been accused of offering rewards for volunteers who signed up sympathetic voters in state Senate recall races. The investigation found that no one actually ended up requesting or receiving the gift or gas cards being offered. Right to Life offered "rewards for volunteers who make an impact … by educating and encouraging family and friends to vote by absentee ballot." Those who signed up 15 "pro-life/pro-family voters" by July 5 would get a $25 gift or gas card as a reward. The person signing up the most people in each Senate district would win a $75 gift or gas card. The program was coordinated with a second group.

Also cleared was Wisconsin Jobs Now!, a coalition of community and labor groups led by the Service Employees International Union. It had held parties on Milwaukee's northwest side in which it offered voters free food, raffles and free shuttles to Milwaukee City Hall so they could cast absentee ballots in a recall election … dubbed "BBQ for votes" by conservative groups, including Media Trackers … But Media Trackers' source - Collin Roth, one of its own staffers - testified in the John Doe that he was never told that he had to vote in order to get a ticket for free food. But Media Trackers' press releases and stories … carried the headline: "Source Reports Wisconsin Jobs Now! Engages in Illegal Election Behavior." But that's not what Roth said in his John Doe testimony.

"Did anyone tell you that in order to get a ticket for food you had to sign up to vote?" Landgraf asked, according to his John Doe filing.

Roth responded, "No, not explicitly, no."

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We hear a lot about how Democrats supposedly paying people to go out and vote. Not a lot of convictions. It’s really conservative projection. Those Democratic dirty tricks were already in the Republican play book, or at least on the to-do list. 

So low and behold, the far right wing fringe group Wisconsin Right to Life is looking at possible election fraud:

TMJ4: The Milwaukee DA's office confirms a decision could come as soon as Tuesday morning about Wisconsin Right to Life, a conservative group accused of using incentives to bolster Republican support earlier this year. The group is accused of offering gift cards to volunteers in order to get out the vote for the July recalls.

Marquette Political Science Professor John McAdams isn't sure 'right to life' violated any laws, equating the actions to a 'get out the vote' drive. "This is slightly different, in that, it was paying people to cast absentee ballots, but not paying the voters to cast absentee ballots."

Huh? Of course, no story is complete if you don’t bring up “both sides do it.”

After Democrats faced similar claims and investigations for giving free food and shuttles to drop off ballots…

Not guilty! But thanks for the diversion tactic.