Greg Borowski continues his excellent coverage on local election flaws:

In the United States, your ballot is secret, but almost everything else about an election is part of the public record: Who voted and at what ward. Where they live. How old they are. Even what number they were in line.

Until recently, that is.

At least in Wisconsin, where a 2003 change in state law put the birth dates of voters off limits to the public, making it nearly impossible to determine whether someone voted twice, a felon voted improperly, or someone voted as a dead person.

And in Milwaukee, where officials have denied access – for now – to nearly all information about the Nov. 2 election, citing an ongoing local-federal investigation into possible voter fraud.

The irony: The investigation was started only after the Journal Sentinel revealed a host of problems about the election – including 7,000 votes that are unaccounted for – by examining information it obtained through open records requests.

Joshua Trevino calls the bankruptcy bill a “breach of faith,” and observes, “When it passes — and it will — it will be thanks purely to the Republican Party.” via instapundit. More here: red states have it worse under the bill, interestingly enough…. Interesting Republican payback. I still don’t understand Kohl’s support for this…

Senator Kohl cast an odd vote for the flawed bankruptcy bill (getting it out of committee. He’s evidently, according to a staff person, pulling a “kerry”: voting for it, before voting against the final bill). Why would Kohl, “Nobody’s Senator But Your’s” cozy up to the credit card companies? I hope he has a strong opponent in the next election….

The folks at www.downsizedc.org are right on….

Good Question….