Posted on 03/25/2005 3:35:42 PM PST by Pikamax
State official: '04 vote bungled in Milwaukee
By Ryan J. Foley Associated Press March 25, 2005
Milwaukee County certified its election results in the 2004 presidential race without reviewing key documents required under state law to verify the vote count in the city of Milwaukee, the state's top election official said Thursday.
The state Elections Board launched an investigation into why the state's largest county approved voting results without receiving the materials after the Nov. 2 election, said executive director Kevin Kennedy.
The investigation could result in a legal challenge to the outcome of the presidential race because the state used incomplete information to certify the results, said state Sen. Joe Leibham, R-Sheboygan. He said Milwaukee County committed "a clear violation of state law" and election workers could face felony charges specified under state law.
Under state law, county clerks must receive ballots, tally sheets, voter lists and other election materials from all municipalities by 2 p.m. the day after an election. The county's canvassing board must review that information before certifying the results and sending them to state officials.
"It sounds like none of the information was delivered," Kennedy said. "They were not following the procedures set out in the state law."
Democrat John Kerry received more than 71 percent of the 277,000 ballots cast in Milwaukee County in the presidential race. Kerry won Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes by about 11,000 votes.
Chris Lato, spokesman for the Republican Party of Wisconsin, said the party would wait for the Elections Board to finish its investigation before considering a legal challenge to the outcome.
"Wisconsin is starting to look like the new Chicago of election fraud," he said. "It's conceivable that George W. Bush won Wisconsin. As these numbers pile up, that notion becomes less and less out there."
Kennedy said Milwaukee city and county officials were cooperating with the investigation, which aims to understand what happened in the presidential election and prevent future violations of the process.
It is the latest election flaw in Milwaukee, where local, state and federal investigators are already looking into a variety of problems in the Nov. 2 election. Published reports have detailed felons who illegally voted, people who used fake names and addresses or voted twice, and poll workers who used inaccurate voter registration lists.
And the Rats over at DU were coloring their eggs with Jimmy Jones Kool-Aid !!!!!
"It's conceivable that George W. Bush won Wisconsin."
No joke!
Doesn't matter. It's only the 10,000 votes in Ohio that count. /s
What?
Oh.
Democrat vote fraud steals election. Again.
(We'll have to wait for the MSM to cover this.)
Nothing to see here folks. Just moveon.org Just moveon.org
Jim Angle, sitting in for Brit unfortunately, just explained that, although they have apparently found 7,000 more votes in Milwaukee County than people who came to vote, it would not have affected the outcome of the presidential election. This requires Mr. Angle to assume that Milwaukee County was the ONLY site of voter fraud in the entire state. If the 7,000 phantom voters voted for Kerry (and it is most probable that they did), then the margin in the entire state is down to 3,000 votes. But I guess I should be reassured by Mr. Angle's assessment which, by the way, he did not need to share with us as part of the story.
My daughter and son-in-law live in Milwaukee, and he was so sure about a month before the election that Bush would have Wisconsin.
He reported to us in 2000 that Marquette students were going and voting for Gore twice without a problem.
My daughter and son-in-law live in Milwaukee, and he was so sure about a month before the election that Bush would have Wisconsin.
He reported to us in 2000 that Marquette students were going and voting for Gore twice without a problem.
Congress should STOP wasting time involving themselves in the Terri Schiavo case and start a real investigation into voter fraud.
Terri is just one person, but the fate of 290,000,000 plus Americans depend on an honest vote.
The total fraud across America regarding the 2004 election would be staggering even to those interested in this issue, if it were properly investigated.
The silence from the Republicans reagarding this voter fraud is traitorous.
"He said Milwaukee County committed "a clear violation of state law" and election workers could face felony charges specified under state law"
We'll let's get these convictions and go after the illegal voters. The Dems need to be sent a message. They don't even think twice about disenfranchising their fellow americans!
True, but then haven't you noticed that EVERYTHING they accuse Republicans of is something they do themselves?
When those exit polls were wrong and showed Kerry would win, the loony left crowd screamed that the polls were right so the real results must have been fixed. OK in that case I say recount the WI vote because almost every poll before the election showed GWB would win it. So someone must have fixed the vote for a Kerry win.
Meanwhile, the day-nappers in the Milwaukee FBI office rolled over and went back to sleep.
Wasn't the total Wisconsin Kerry lead less than 30,000?
IIRC it was around 11,000
Really went down since I checked that night. Much closer than I thought. And this is just Milwaukee. Madison is more liberal, so probably more corrupt.
So that bad smell hovering around Milwaukee since 2 Nov 04, wasn't due to over ripe cheese or a bad batch of beer, after all?
bttt
I'm really sick and tired of hearing about Rat voter fraud. And now Shrillery wants to allow felons to vote and people who can't weem to "find" their picture IDs on election day under this new count every vote law which sounds good, but allows every Tom, Dick and Harry to vote whether they're a citizen, registered, already voted or not, 'cos the cheaters are more likely to vote Rat than Republican. Beware!
It's good the see the Republicans challenging Democrat vote fraud wherever it occurs. Republicans need to keep the spotlight on Democrat fraud and hammer them relentlessly. Were it not for fraud and media bias, Democrats would hold no more than 30% of elected offices.
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