The Republican Party of Wisconsin is actively and aggressively backing an effort to commit election fraud by urging on efforts to have Republicans file their names as Democratic primary candidates for the seats of GOP state senators who face recall.

The point of the GOP effort is to create confusion among the voters, force even higher levels of campaign spending, and delay the recall election process.

Top Republican operatives have acknowledged the strategy.

So how did they get so comfortable with the art of defrauding voters?

Perhaps they got some ideas from the 2010 gubernatorial campaign of Scott Walker, who campaigned as a mainstream Republican, promised to steer away from his party’s extremes, and pledged to focus on getting Wisconsinites working together to expand the economy.

Walker never outlined the militant anti-labor agenda that has become the central tenet of his administration.

He never detailed plans to undermine local government and shift power to unaccountable political cronies in Madison.