WI has a total infestation of Alec laws and 99% of the Rs are members--We have a long hard road ahead of us here as they control all thru the WI supreme court. And now ALEC has a sub organization that is infecting local govts and school boards as well.

and so did some others, but who listens to us?

By 2004 Markos et al were calling us conspiracy theorists and banning us from his site

“CA Lawsuit Filed: Election Law Violations” . 20 May - reddit

CALIFORNIA LAWSUIT FILED OVER ELECTION LAW VIOLATIONS - (PDF)

making any kind of effort to broaden her appeal. Who needs voters when you control the votes themselves?

The CA Democratic Party elected to make its primary election "semi-closed," which means that NPP voters are entitled to cast ballots (no one registered with another party is eligible). All they have to do is request a Dem ballot at their polling place.

This: "to give NPP (no party preference) voters a provisional ballot" is definitely voter suppression no question about it. Watching the Ashley Beck's video now. Ashley says she checked with the registrar of voters and was told the person giving the training was lying. No reason to doubt the trainer was a Clinton operative, and who knows how many more are out there doing the same thing. So, yes this is definitely a problem.

http://rebrn.com/re/election-fraud-ca-watch-poll-workers-being-told-in-o...

Bisbonian, unfortunately there is some misinformation in that video you linked to.

This situation is so out of hand… Ashley, the conscientious poll worker who cared enough to post that video, was misinformed not only in her training session but also by her local elections official.

Ashley correctly explains that the trainer was wrong in instructing the workers to give provisional ballots to NPP voters—but the elections official she spoke to was also wrong, which unfortunately means that Ashley fails to properly inform people, despite her best intentions. The "crossover ballot" Ashley instructs NPP voters to ask for will not even be available at the polls because that's the special absentee ballot that's mailed to NPP voters who request them before May 31. On election day, an NPP voter voting in person uses a Dem ballot—simple, except that no one, from the trainers to the county officials, apparently, is informing workers of the actual rules.

I'm really concerned about this because Ashley's account of what she was told by the Orange County elections official is eerily similar to advice that I've heard the elections official in Tuolumne County has been giving people: that NPP voters need a "special ballot" to vote in person on election day. No, no, no!! How are we ever going to make sure that NPP voters who show up at the polls are given the ballots that the law entitles them to so that their votes are counted?

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a great place to start:

While Dunning already touched on one reason for this—a collective failure to appreciate new, breakthrough ideas—he now turned to an opposite kind of problem, failures that can come from a lack of group coherence, from people seeming to work together, while actually having significantly different sorts of goals. “I have often wondered, if everybody has a hymnal, is everybody’s hymnal the same,” Dunning said. “So for political operatives, sometimes I wonder if their task is to get candidates elected or to make sure that they earn enough money from the election that they can live a good life, and can continue to have their political business.” It’s a question many in netroots have raised repeatedly over the years.

It’s not limited to politics, of course. Dunning also cited a similar problem in the business world, where “if you’re a CEO, you get graded on how well you do this past quarter, so the task is to maximize profit for this quarter. And that may not be the best strategy in the long-term.”

More generally, Dunning said, “Whenever you see somebody acting in what looks like an incompetent way you have to ask yourself if they actually perceive themselves doing a different task than what you think they’re doing, and being very competent in [that task].” He cited an example from his own experience, a dean at a university he had observed, who “would speak in non sequiturs,” hardly a sign of intellectual competence, “until I realized this task was to outlast everybody, just so he got his way, and that he was brilliant. But if you thought his task was to bring many minds in together, and come to an understanding … no, that was not the task.”

and still getting used to being able to edit comments on a blog, after so much time of not having the capability of doing so on GOS.