Wisconsin presidential vote fraud update

Paul Krugman and a whole bunch of others in the tinfoil-hat crowd keep whining about Bush's "theft" of Ohio in last year's presidential election.

These same people are very quiet about the clear vote fraud that took place forty miles north of me in Wisconsin.
From AP:

Wisconsin's voter registration procedures are riddled with inconsistencies that allow ineligible voters to cast ballots and make it difficult for prosecutors to catch illegal voters, state auditors said Friday.

Auditors identified 105 instances of improper or fraudulent voting in Madison and five other cities in the November 2004 election. Most of those votes were cast by ineligible felons, whose names were forwarded to prosecutors.

The nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau identified more than 3,100 voters whose names appear on registration lists more than once in a review of 348,000 voter records in eight municipalities, opening the potential for double-voting.

Republican lawmakers requested the audit after the tight November 2004 presidential election amid charges of election fraud in Milwaukee, the state's largest city. Auditors said they could not review problems in Milwaukee because criminal investigators looking into fraud had the records.

State auditors focused their review on eight cities but also surveyed 150 municipalities and found widespread inconsistencies in the way they run elections.

Fewer than half of them sent postcards to verify the addresses voters gave when they registered by mail or on Election Day as required by state law as a way to guard against voter fraud according to the report. Clerks should forward cards that are returned ``undeliverable'' to district attorneys for investigation, but they rarely take that step.

Paul Krugman, do you care to respond?

Oh, in Wisconsin, John Kerry defeated President George Bush by just 10,000 votes last November.

UPDATE 10:45 PM CDT: Pat Curley of Brainster has a post on post-mortem voting in New Jersey. He links to an article from the New York Times, which is of course Paul Krugman's newspaper.