Shutting Down the Voter Fraud Cops

The Voter Fraud man himself was is on Sykes this AM.  John Fund broke a story this morning, exposing Milwaukee Police Department’s shutdown of the Fraud Cops who are trying to keep Milwaukee’s voter integrity.

Last week Mike Sandvick, head of the Milwaukee Police Department’s five-man Special Investigative Unit, was told by superiors not to send anyone to visit polling places on Election Day. He was also told his unit—which wrote the book on how fraud could subvert the vote in his hometown—would be disbanded.

“We know what to look for,” he told me, “and that scares some people.” In disgust, Mr. Sandvick plans to retire.

In February, Mr. Sandvick’s unit released a 67-page report on what it called an “illegal organized attempt to influence the outcome of (the 2004) election in the state of Wisconsin”—a swing state whose last two presidential races were decided by less than 12,000 votes.

The report found that between 4,600 and 5,300 more votes were counted in Milwaukee than the number of voters recorded as having cast ballots. Absentee ballots were cast by people living elsewhere; ineligible felons not only voted but worked at the polls; transient college students cast improper votes; and homeless voters possibly voting more than once.