We're all shocked, shocked that happened, right? The
Wisconsin State Journal, the conservative newspaper in Madison, laid out the dirty tricks:
At least 16 Republican Party officers and volunteers from across Wisconsin were involved in a secretive signature drive to get presidential candidate Ralph Nader on the ballot by claiming to be supporters and keeping quiet about their GOP affiliations.
Organizers of the covert drive gathered an estimated 3,228 signatures - far more than the 2,000 required to put Nader, an independent, on the Nov. 2 ballot.
But their work, submitted to Nader's campaign by a GOP activist, ultimately didn't count. Nader got on the ballot with no help from the Republicans.
The full article discusses the Nader campaign's suspicions about the large number of signatures gathered quickly from all over the state, which led Nader's organization to reject the signatures.
But it's still another example, added to a rapidly growing list, of how the Republicans intend to lie and cheat their way through this election.