Here’s an email scandal that you would think the Republican Party and Donald Trump could get on board with since it has to do with the real voter “fraud”—voter suppression. The Nation was given some emails via an open-records request from One Wisconsin Institute. The email correspondence is about a push by Republican, Democratic and Libertarian student groups to have early voting set up on campus. The emails show that a Republican-appointed city clerk, Kris Teske, while publicly saying early voting was a money and security issue, privately explained her reasons a little differently.
But privately Teske gave a different reason for opposing an early-voting site at UW–Green Bay, writing that student voting would benefit the Democratic Party. “UWGB is a polling location for students and residents on Election Day but I feel by asking for this to be the site for early voting is encouraging the students to vote more than benefiting the city as a whole,” she wrote on August 26 in an e-mail to David Buerger, counsel at the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. “I have heard it said that students lean more toward the democrats…. I have spoken with our Chief of Staff and others at City Hall and they agree that budget wise this isn’t going to happen. Do I have an argument about it being more of a benefit to the democrats?”
You have to be such a dummy to think that the criteria above would be a legal loophole through which she could suppress the vote that it’s a wonder she even knows how to breathe. Kris Teske was appointed to her position by Scott Walker ally Mayor Jim Schmitt, so wonder no longer. This is not much of a surprise since Republicans in Wisconsin have had a hard time keeping their true motivations for voter ID laws and the like camouflaged.