After massive voter fraud was committed in Milwaukee four years ago, a special police department was determined to clean up the city this time. It had studied the fraud committed by, especially, Democrats and allied organizations four years ago, and was ready  to make sure that not one illegal ballot was counted this time.

But then superiors told Mike Sandvick, head of the Milwaukee Police Department’s five-man Special Investigative Unit, not to send anyone to polling places. Not only would they not be allowed to do their job, he was also told that his entire unit would be disbanded.

Sandvick told the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund: “We know what to look for and that scares some people.”

In reaction to the order from his superiors, Sandvick announced he will resign.

There is evidence enough that Sandvick’s unit should be able to do its job if Wisconsin wants its elections to be fair. In February of this year, the unit published a 67-page report arguing that there was an “illegal organized attempt to influence the outcome of (the 2004) election in the state of Wisconsin” underway.

‘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 voted more than once,’ Fund explained for the WSJ.

Wisconsin has a ’same-day voter law,’ which means that residents can register and cast an actual vote on one and the same day. They do not need to show an ID: instead, they are allowed to vote if a Milwaukee resident vouches for them.

Many of John Kerry’s out-of-state workers used the law to have “other staff members who were registered voters vouch for them by corroborating their residency,” thereby casting illegal votes, which were counted nonetheless.

Wisconsin is a battleground state: in the last two elections, only 12,000 votes marked the difference between the winner and loser of the state. The investigative unit believed at least 16 workers from the Kerry campaign, and two allied get-out-the-vote groups, “committed felony crimes.”

But now, the unit will not be able to do what it is supposed to do, namely to protect the democratic process and to make sure that Barack Obama’s workers do not do the exact same thing Kerry’s workers did.

This becomes all the more troubling once one realizes that organizations like ACORN are working harder for Obama than they did for Kerry.

At this moment, the unit has already discovered the following:

1. out-of-state groups registering their temporary workers

2. a college dorm with 60 voters who aren’t students

3. seven illegal absentee ballots

Interestingly enough, Winsconsin Senator Russ Feingold introduced federal legislation that would allow the same kind of same-day votes everywhere in the nation because, he argued, “it worked well” in Wisconsin.

For Democrats it worked wonders indeed. For Republicans? Not so much.