Posted on 04/08/2011 5:57:30 PM PDT by Walter Scott Hudson
In a stunning development, a clerical error in Wisconsin has transformed what many expected to be a long, ugly legal battle favoring the Left into an almost certain victory for the Right, outraging leftists like Michael Moore, to the point where the radical "documentarian" has stopped bothering to hide his disdain for the democratic process.
The intense Wisconsin Supreme Court race between the incumbent Republican, Justice David Prosser, and his Democrat challenger, state DNR enforcer JoAnn Kloppenburg, ended Wednesday with the latter declaring victory based on the Associated Press’s calculation of a 204-vote lead. Prosser didn't budge, and most predicted an onslaught of recounts and vote fraud litigation to ensue.
But on Thursday evening we learned that Waukesha county clerk Kathy Nickolaus had erroneously passed on the county’s data to the AP without the numbers from the city of Brookfield, which shifted the lead to Prosser by more than 7,000 votes. Leftists are predictably outraged that hijacking the judiciary to thwart Governor Scott Walker's public-sector union reforms won’t work after all, though none have topped the overreaction of Moore, who tweeted last night:
Republicans created the rule: "Whoever declares victory first, wins!" When will Obama Justice Dept impound ballots and stop the shenanigans?Much has been said about the totalitarian impulse and anti-constitutionalism behind modern leftism, but rarely is it expressed so overtly by one of their own. Moore wants the federal government to forcibly prevent the certification of a state election and give the office to someone based strictly on her own, premature and entirely unofficial, declaration of victory?...
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There are no shenanigans, that’s why, Mikey.
The count given as a courtesy to the press was not correct.
What counts is the canvassing board counts, which both democrats and republicans did and verified to be accurate.
Trust me Mikey, the Waukesha dems would have screamed bloody murder if there was. The Vice Chair of the Waukesha democrat party is part of the canvass board that spent a day and a half verifying the votes. She even said in the press conference she was not doing this as a favor to the republicans, she was doing it because it was the truth.
Mikey, you aren’t a Wisconsinite, you have no idea of how elections run and how votes are totalled, that the press numbers are not official numbers, that there is a review/canvass process before the votes are said to be an official tally.
Go back to Cuba for your awesome health care. It’s obviously made you look great.
Moore battles Bush in 04 election — Bush win. Moore battles Walker in WI — Walker wins. What does that tell you about Moore?
10th Amendment...Shut Up MM!
I think Kathy Nickolaus more than anyone has proven the cheating, lying and thieving of the Left. I thank her for being honest and doing what she did.
Geez, why can’t Michael Moore have a Mama Cass moment?
Hadn’t Prosser taken the lead by 40 points BEFORE the 7,000 votes showed up?
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