GET ME REWRITE: Tighty Whities at WILL keep up their campaign of voter suppression

 

Headline:  Wisconsin State Journal, 9/15/2022  
Photos:  The WILL Team

Judge shopping:

A Waukesha County judge should declare that a federal voter registration form is illegal in Wisconsin because it omits questions and disclaimers required by state law, according to a lawsuit a conservative group filed Thursday against the Wisconsin Elections Commission. 

The so-called National Voter Mail Registration Form breaks state law by not asking applicants whether they have felony convictions and doesn't state that falsifying information on it is a felony, according to the lawsuit.

1/27/2022 update, "There they go again:  WILL team always eager to promote voter suppression and white privilege", starts here.

Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty

Wisconsin State Journal, 1/27/2022

Elections Commission issued guidance in early 2020 to allow election clerks to make use of them. WILL and some Republicans have alleged the lack of statutory language makes the use of the boxes illegal. Proponents of drop boxes have said local election clerks should have discretion over their use and have targeted GOP efforts to limit or ban the boxes as an attempt to suppress votes. 

The boxes were widely used in 2020 as an alternative for voters worried that, with the crush of absentee ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic and potential delays in mail delivery, their ballots might not make it back before Election Day. At least 34 states used or planned to use ballot drop boxes in the 2020 election and about 16% of voters nationwide in the 2016 general election made use of the boxes, according to the Elections Commission. [emphasis added]

6/29/2021 update starts here.

Wisconsin State Journal, 6/29/2021

The lawsuit, filed Monday by Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on behalf of Richard Teigen, of Hartland, and Richard Thom, of Menomonee Falls, challenges the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s guidance to election clerks last year on the use of ballot drop boxes leading up to the 2020 election.

Meet Richard Teigen.

Other WILL posts:

WILL expands its white privilege program to a national audience.   (6/18/2021)

When Rick Esenberg tells the 4 lapdogs on the Wisconsin Supreme Court to roll over, they earn themselves a doggy bone.  (6/12/2021) 

Conservative group shows its true colors, fights for white male supremacy.  (5/12/2021)

Tighty Whities at WILL are overdue with a reckoning with whiteness.  (1/13/2021)

The Dinesh D'Souza Clown Show crashes and burns

 

Headline:  Wisconsin Public Radio, 9/8/2022

The book does not appear to suffer from an obvious production error which might explain the delay; a misaligned photo, incorrect page numbers or blank pages. 

The book does, however, regurgitate the content of the film "2,000 Mules" including misleading claims, which have been thoroughly debunked by fact-checkers and critics across the political spectrum. Former Attorney General Bill Barr called the film's underlying premise "indefensible." 

Despite those flaws, "2,000 Mules" has emerged as a leading theory for supporters of Trump's baseless claim that he actually won the 2020 election. For Trump and some of his most diehard fans - among them candidates for public office - the project has served as "proof" of the stolen election.

 

6/14/2022 update, "Let's welcome Dinesh D'Souza' "2000 Mules" to the list of box office flops", starts here.

Source:  Box Office Mojo

Related reading:

Business Insider, 6/13/2022

"The cellphone data is singularly unimpressive," Barr added. "Basically, if you take 2 million cellphones and figure out where they are physically in a big city like Atlanta or wherever, by definition, you're going to find many hundreds of them that have passed by and spent time in the vicinity these boxes. And the premise that if you go by five boxes or whatever it was, that that's a mule, is indefensible."

5/20/2022 update, "Meet Trump sycophant and professional liar Dinesh D'Souza", starts here.

Box office tallies:  Box Office Mojo

Headline:  Benzinga, 5/16/2022

D’Souza has made a career out of right-wing video production and publishing. He pleaded guilty to a campaign donation fraud charge in 2014 and was issued a pardon by Trump in 2018. 

Not unlike the film’s claims of election fraud, D’Souza’s declaration that it has been “successful in its political and cultural influence” appears to have a tenuous acquaintance with reality.  [emphasis added; a polite way of saying he's a fucking liar]

There is no independent audit of Salem’s claim of a $10 million gross for “2000 Miles” — and if it is, this might be the best-kept secret in the motion picture industry.

Related reading:

New York Times, 5/29/2022

The film, directed by the conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, is based in part on an erroneous premise: that getting paid to deliver other people’s ballots is illegal not just in states like Pennsylvania and Georgia where True the Vote centered its research and where third-party delivery of ballots is not allowed in most cases, but in every state. 

What’s more, the film claims, but never shows in its footage, that individual “mules” stuffed drop box after drop box. (Mr. Phillips said such footage exists, but Mr. D’Souza said it wasn’t included because “it’s not easy to tell from the images themselves that it is the same person.”) Those claims are purportedly backed up by tracking cellphone data, but the film’s methods of analysis have been pilloried in numerous fact-checks. (True the Vote declined to offer tangible proof — Mr. Phillips calls his methodology a “trade secret.”) 

 

4/11/2022 update, "Truth Social:  Oh, Dinesh, scooby-doo, got it wrong again, Dinesh, scooby-do", starts here.

 Headlines:

• Daily Beast, 4/4/2022
• Reuters, 4/4/2022
• CNN, 4/4/2022
• Washington Post, 4/5/2022

Original 3/2/2022 post, "Dinesh D'Souza has something clownish to say about Donald Trump's Truth Social', starts here.

Sources:  YouTube, (red box added)

Trump's Truth Social bomb, Vox, 3/1/2022 (red box added)

MAN OH MAN! Meet the anti-abortionists of the South Carolina state legislature

 

Headline:  New York Times, 9/9/2022

Learn more about these Gomers here.

Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, who backed a more complete ban without exceptions for rape or incest, could not overcome resistance from within his own party. “We don’t have the votes, and I hate that I have to admit that,” said Mr. Massey, who instead shifted to a more modest goal of further restrictions. 

Three Republican women spoke against the total ban and in favor of exceptions for rape and incest, arguing that it was wrong to compel young victims of sexual violence to give birth.

The GOP has Shane, no shame. 

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts