“Wisconsin To Allow Electronic Documents For Election Day Voter Registration”

AlterNet reports.  And there’s this:

Also noteworthy were remarks by GAB Executive Director Kevin Kennedy saying that partisan poll watchers would not be allowed to look at the documents being presented.

“Observers are there to observe the process,” he said. “They don’t get to do the [poll worker’s] job. They don’t get to look at the documents. They get to observe if the poll workers do their job, which is to ask for proof of residence, identity, and make proper notation.”

In the June gubernatorial recall, Republican election observors interferred with polling place activities in Racine, prompting the GAB to say they would be issuing new guidelines for election observers before November. The GAB spokesperson said the board would include Kennedy’s concerns in its updated poll watcher policy.

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