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City's vote recount ends (Milwaukee)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | 9/17/2006 | Derrick Nunnally/Dave Umhoefer

Posted on 09/17/2006 2:40:21 PM PDT by steveegg

Milwaukee officials announced Saturday that after a three-day manual count of ballots, Tuesday's primary election brought 46,500 voters to the polls in Milwaukee, not 80,000 as the city previously reported.

City Election Commission chief Susan Edman said the ward-by-ward review of turnout confirmed the city's suspicion that a computer programming error by her office caused the misreporting....

The earlier report of nearly 27% turnout had generated confusion because it suggested that tens of thousands of people showed up to vote but ignored or voted incorrectly in the top races on the ballot, including state attorney general and Milwaukee County district attorney and sheriff.

The discrepancy was brought to the city's attention by the Journal Sentinel, which reported on it Thursday. Its cause, Edman said, was a double and triple count at polling sites containing multiple wards. The duplicated figures showed up in 198 of the city's 314 wards, the paper found....

The hand count was conducted by the city with help from the county at the city's warehouse on N. Hawley Road. The count was completed Saturday and turned up 46,413 ballots, compared with the original report of 80,064, a difference of 33,651.

Based on city officials' diagnosis of the computer miscalculation, city officials believe instead of 46,413 that 46,548 people actually voted last week. The gap of 135 between that machine count and the hand count is mostly due to 101 ballots cast at 53rd Street School, 3618 N. 53rd St., that were tallied the night of the election but could not be located for the hand count, Edman said. A search is under way.

The remaining variance of 34 ballots will be reconciled when city officials review polling lists and other election materials before turning its numbers over to the Milwaukee County Election Commission....

(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
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Thread on the start of this "recount" over here. This pseudo-recount (just a double-check on the number of valid ballots cast, not a recount of any individual race) began after the paper noticed that tens of thousands more people were reported to have voted than were recorded with a vote in the top 4 races in Milwaukee County ('RAT and Pubbie primaries for state attorney general, 'RAT primary for district attorney and 'RAT primary for sheriff). A couple of quick observations based both on the excerpt and the extended article:
1 posted on 09/17/2006 2:40:22 PM PDT by steveegg
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

"Continuation of your earlier thread" ping.


2 posted on 09/17/2006 2:41:40 PM PDT by steveegg (Let's make the deeply-saddened Head KOmmie deeply soddened in Nov. - deny the 'RATs the election)
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To: steveegg
"This is a test of the Moonbat Election Rigging System. Had this been an actual election, the MSM would not be covering it.
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP."
3 posted on 09/17/2006 2:51:42 PM PDT by magslinger (If at first you don't succeed, squeeze, squeeze again.)
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To: magslinger
"This is a test of the Moonbat Election Rigging System. Had this been an actual election, the MSM would not be covering it.
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP."

They can't blame Diebold for failing to rig this; the city did its own programming of the machines. Also, the MEC is controlled by the 'RATs (through mayor Tom "Milk Carton" Barrett), and I didn't see any of them at any of my VWRC meetings.

4 posted on 09/17/2006 2:57:03 PM PDT by steveegg (Let's make the deeply-saddened Head KOmmie deeply soddened in Nov. - deny the 'RATs the election)
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To: steveegg
Tuesday's primary election brought 46,500 voters to the polls in Milwaukee, not 80,000 as the city previously reported. .... The gap of 135 between that machine count and the hand count...

Help me out. I'm confused.

The article describes a gap of 33,500., and then offers an explanation for 135.

What am I missing?

5 posted on 09/17/2006 2:58:16 PM PDT by laotzu
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To: laotzu
The article describes a gap of 33,500., and then offers an explanation for 135.

The confusion is probably a function of my selected excerpting, which assumed that people either read the article or the previous thread (lesson #1 - never assume anything). Let's see if I can clear it up some:

Hope I cleared things up.
6 posted on 09/17/2006 3:09:13 PM PDT by steveegg (Let's make the deeply-saddened Head KOmmie deeply soddened in Nov. - deny the 'RATs the election)
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To: steveegg

Mexico City...Please copy...


7 posted on 09/17/2006 3:27:22 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: steveegg

Thanks.


8 posted on 09/17/2006 3:54:19 PM PDT by laotzu
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To: steveegg; Watery Tart; KRAUTMAN; reformedliberal; Mygirlsmom; codercpc; s2baccha; ozaukeemom; ...

"Your Tax Dollars At Work" Ping!

Make sure to read the entire article. It's a little confusing. However, even the ONE vote that's not counted could be yours! And as a Conservative in this state, it most likely is. Grrrrrrr!

Thanks to Steve for the follow-up. :)


9 posted on 09/17/2006 4:25:24 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Funny no one noticed as they were voting. In Fitchburg, we ran the absentee ballots through early in the day. Four failed to go through (cross voting) after being assigned a number. That led to our count being off by 4 - and we were repeatedly asked to explain that! Maybe Fitchburg voters are more savvy!


10 posted on 09/17/2006 4:43:37 PM PDT by knittnmom (...surrounded by reality)
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To: steveegg

And as I asked in the original article, by how much did Kerry win Wisconsin over Bush?


11 posted on 09/17/2006 6:24:33 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: T. P. Pole

And I'll answer my own question with the answer - quite a bit less than 33,651.


12 posted on 09/17/2006 6:25:31 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: T. P. Pole

If you want to convert the percentages I put in reply #1 to hard numbers, it was 11,000 and change in 2004 and just over 5,000 in 2000.


13 posted on 09/17/2006 6:30:50 PM PDT by steveegg (Let's make the deeply-saddened Head KOmmie deeply soddened in Nov. - deny the 'RATs the election)
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To: Howlin; neverdem; steveegg

Thanks for the followup!


14 posted on 09/18/2006 4:02:11 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: T. P. Pole
'Tis a very important point. I strongly suspect that this "turnout" error not only happened in previous elections, but that it also included individual races like President.

Say, anybody got a "few" hours to do our own recount of, say, the 2004 Presidential election in Milwaukee? I'll do the Open Records request if we can get enough volunteers.

15 posted on 09/18/2006 4:55:47 AM PDT by steveegg (Let's make the deeply-saddened Head KOmmie deeply soddened in Nov. - deny the 'RATs the election)
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To: steveegg
I'm in. I can give some time.

We also need to be ready for the gov's race in November, in case they try to steal it again.

16 posted on 09/18/2006 7:23:29 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: T. P. Pole

What "in case"? The 'RATs are already implementing Operation Theft 06.


17 posted on 09/18/2006 7:24:49 AM PDT by steveegg (Let's make the deeply-saddened Head KOmmie deeply soddened in Nov. - deny the 'RATs the election)
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