Wisconsin Republicans must not like their chances in today’s recall elections. Why? Well just look at the list of voter suppression and electoral fraud tricks already lining up.

For starters, robocallers from Virginia are calling up Wisconsin voters and telling them to stay home. According to at least one report the robocallers are from a right to life group telling voters that an absentee ballot would be mailed to them for the upcoming recall elections.

It’s too late to vote absentee in the recall elections. These efforts are nothing short of attempting to disenfranchise citizens.

The Wisconsin GOP also recruited Republicans to run as fake Democrats in the primaries as part of a plan to delay the special general election. Since Wisconsin allows for cross-party voting, Republican leaders hope that Republicans would turn out to vote for the fake Democrat to keep the real one from getting on the ballot.

But it doesn’t stop there. In Wisconsin’s 18th Senate District GOP supporters of Republican Senator Randy Hopper circulated flyers encouraging voters to go to the polls and vote for the fake Democratic candidate, John Buckstaff.

Republicans have shown a total willingness to game the system to benefit their own immediate political interests and the financial interests of their ALEC sponsors. Let voters decide for themselves which candidates they want to support. Gaming the system may make for good short-term political gain but it is a destructive way to maintain a democracy.

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