The ultimate voter suppression: Lock 'em up

Gretchen Schuldt pulls no punches in her Milwaukee Insight column about a little-noticed form of voter suppression -- locking people up. She writes:

MILWAUKEE -- Here's a hint for all those pious-posin', cheatin'-seekin' Republicans who say they want to clean up that smaller-than-a-gnat's-knee voter fraud problem in Milwaukee, but who really want to discourage impoverished Democrats (especially black ones) from voting.

Follow your friend Sheriff David Clarke's lead. Keep 'em locked up on election days. Hold 'em in the hoosegow until the final vote is counted.

Don't worry about the niceties. It doesn't matter if these people did anything wrong. What matters is that jailing folks on Election Day keeps them from voting Democratic once, much less twice.