lol. "A supporter of former President Donald Trump who said authorities should root out voter fraud is among five people who were charged Thursday with voter fraud." startribune.com/trump-backer-4…
Anyway these all seem like a bit of a stretch. The "fraud" alleged is filling out a voter registration with a PO box address rather than a residence, and these are mostly people who live out of RVs. Criminalizing people for trying to vote is bad.
"One of the people charged was homeless but should have listed any kind of address, like the location of a park bench, rather than a post office box number, Toney said." Come on.
"Another man who didn't vote said he was living out of his truck when he registered and used the post office box because he could use that on his driver's license."
Look at the mental gymnastics here, on the part of the Republican DA who is running for Wisconsin attorney general. We have to arrest and prosecute people for paperwork errors so we can free up more time to pursue violent criminals? Give me a break.

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This is incredible. Mayor: "If you then allow ice fishing with shanties, then that leads to another problem: prostitution." Gotta find out where this guy goes ice fishing.
"six to eight people." The sheer depravity of it all.
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