Fitchburg, WI - Worked the early shift today at a high turn-out ward in Fitchburg, WI, next to Madison.

We received two separate knocks at our door in last three days.

I worked as an election inspector from 6:00 AM to 1:30 PM.

The register-at-the-poll crowd was huge in the morning, and was steady when I just left now.

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From the diaries. This story is growing here in Wisconsin...a clearly coordinated Republican move to chill voting - Josh

Update: Get audio at Talking Points Memo.

Contradicting his earlier claims that "(there was no discussion with anybody involved in leadership with the Republican Party (or the McCain campaign) about this (voting rule) lawsuit before it was brought," as Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has said earlier last month, WiscPolitics has uncovered new audio (posted at WiscPolitics) revealing Van Hollen promising action on alleged "voter fraud" during an address at the Republican National Convention held in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Update: See Dane County Case Number 2008CV004085 for more information on this DoJ Petition for a Writ of Mandamus.

As reported in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel,

Republican (Wisconsin) Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen sued the state this week to require more checks of voter information against driver's license records - a move that critics say could force people off the voter rolls and require them to cast provisional ballots. Provisional ballots are counted only when voters provide proof of residence by the next day.

Van Hollen asked a Dane County judge Friday to expedite proceedings in the case because the election is fast approaching. A hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

The imperative of Wisconsin to establish a centralized, computerized voter registration list "coordinated with other agency databases within the State" like the DOT comes from federal law, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which Van Hollen cites in the WI DOJ Complaint.

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Update: MJS: State lawsuit could affect 1 million voters

The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) is hitting back at Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's and the GOP's voter suppression efforts.

The GAB statement released today concerns Wisconsin's implementation of the Help America Vote Act, a huge project that could disenfranchise some 200,000 Wisconsin voters in the process.

The national and Wisconsin Republican parties have used voter suppression programs as an electoral tool for decades, though the efforts have been rolled out more aggressively the last two presidential elections. HAVA is proving an irresistible tool for such voter suppression efforts.

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Madison, Wisconsin - Straight-up poll here from Wisconsin.

I'm for Obama; but the last few days have seen negative attack after negative attack by Hillary, and I am POed. Alleged plagiarism, social security, just words, you know the story.

Am I being objective?

Here's the poll:

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