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Page A10From§Eachthe coffee break edition — 31 August 2026

One 20-year voter-fraud case and a 'screwy' Milwaukee count both get cited to justify a national ID law.

By ChipStaff Writer · the coffee break edition, 31 August 2026

As it ran on the front

Let's be clear about what happened in Florida, because the facts here are not complicated and frankly they speak for themselves. A person voted for twenty years under a name that was not their own. Twenty years. That is not a clerical error, that is not a hanging chad, that is a sustained, documented failure of the verification system, and it is exactly the kind of case that proves — well, it proves that one case existed, I suppose, over two decades, out of what is presumably tens of millions of ballots cast in that state over that same period. But the point stands. The point is verification.

And it's not isolated, that's the thing people don't want to hear. Up in Wisconsin, the Elections Commission is taking up what officials themselves are calling a 'screwy' situation in the Milwaukee count. When your own commission uses the word 'screwy,' that tells you something. It tells you there's a commission doing its job, actually, looking into an irregularity and reporting on it publicly, which is sort of the system working as designed — did I just argue against my own point there? Let me back up.…

…(cont) The case for a national verification standard doesn't rest on any one county or any one twenty-year identity case. It rests on the principle that every ballot should be verifiably cast by the person named on it, which nobody disputes, including apparently the people currently building databases to check exactly that without a new federal law. So maybe the honest version of this is that the existing systems already catch this stuff, eventually, which is sort of what happened in Florida — the case was found, the person was identified, the system, functioning on a twenty-year delay, worked.

Regardless. Standards. Verification. Screwy counts get investigated by commissions that exist for that purpose. That's the story, and if it doesn't sound like the emergency it was billed as this morning, that's a headline problem, not a facts problem.

“One guy voted under a dead man's name for twenty years in Florida and suddenly that's the excuse for a law that makes every voter in the country carry extra paperwork. Twenty years, one guy, and Wisconsin's own election commission is quietly picking through a 'screwy' count in Milwaukee at the same time. The bigger fraud here might be the math they're doing to sell the fix.”
Sal
“This is exactly why we need uniform verification standards nationwide, it's just common sense election integrity, one documented case proves the system is — well, one case out of how many million ballots cast, I suppose, but still, common sense.”
Chip

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