Bullies, Liars and Impostors: How Facebook and Go Daddy Shield Scott Walker's Online Guerillas

By Adele M. Stan and Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
Posted on December 4, 2011, Printed on December 5, 2011

In Wisconsin, as in states around the nation, Republican lawmakers claim to be concerned with the integrity of the voting process and with fighting fraud. At least that 's the rationale for the passage of a new voter ID law passed this spring.

But as hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites seek a recall election of Gov. Scott Walker, a spate of online disinformation, bullying and outright calls for the destruction of recall petitions by anonymous Web entities, possibly administered from out of state, raise a question: Who are the real impostors and fraudsters in Wisconsin's elections?