Posted on 04/07/2011 2:47:44 PM PDT by dep
After Tuesday night’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election, a computer error in heavily Republican Waukesha County failed to send election results for the entire City of Brookfield to the Associated Press. The error, revealed today, would give incumbent Supreme Court Justice David Prosser a net 7,381 votes against his challenger, attorney Joanne Kloppenburg. On Wednesday, Kloppenburg declared victory after the AP reported she finished the election with a 204-vote lead, out of nearly 1.5 million votes cast.
On election night, AP results showed a turnout of 110,000 voters in Waukesha County — well short of the 180,000 voters that turned out last November, and 42 percent of the county’s total turnout. By comparison, nearly 90 percent of Dane County voters who cast a ballot in November turned out to vote for Kloppenburg.
Prior to the election, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus was heavily criticized for her decision to keep the county results on an antiquated personal computer, rather than upgrade to a new data system being utilized statewide. Nickolaus cited security concerns for keeping the data herself — yet when she reported the data, it did not include the City of Brookfield, whose residents cast nearly 14,000 votes.
Throughout the day Thursday, official canvass numbers flipped the lead back and forth between Prosser and Kloppenburg. While many believed a recount was inevitable, the addition of the Brookfield votes for Prosser could push the justice’s lead beyond the legal threshold that would trigger an automatic recount. Under state law, Kloppenburg could still ask for a recount up to three days after the official canvass, but would have to pay for it herself.
More details as they become available.
and "blue finger" after ID...good enough for Iraq.
At one point Ramona Kitzinger, a Democratic representative on the canvassing board and vice-chair of county’s Democratic party, stepped up to podium to confirm Nickolaus’s account. “We’re satisfied that it’s correct,” Kitzinger said of the numbers.“We went over everything and made sure the numbers jibed.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/264219/wild-one-waukesha-daniel-foster
Clarity, indeed. Let the shrieks and hissing begin.
“The only rule of the bayonet is that the need for one indicates a failure to pack enough ammo.”
I understand what you’re saying, GonzoGop, but sometimes you kill so many enemy that you just run out of bullets, there’s no supply coming up to the frontline and all you got left is a bayonet and a K-Bar.
Lots of Marines and soldiers had to do with only bayonets on Guadalcanal and Makin. We buried a Marine - 2nd Marine Raiders - three years ago who died on Makin because he ran out of ammo. He did his duty by setting up the Japs to believe the landing was coming at Makin, not Guadalcanal. It worked.
I want to get these Marines who landed at Makin - all of them - given at least a Navy cross and present them to their families.
Well, hell. I’m too emotionally involved and laying it on you. My apologies.
I’m not criticizing you, just recalling what happened then.
Cheers and God bless.
Kloppenklip’s Victory Speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VNpKvwQeJM
Find ONE HONEST THING she said during it!
I certainly hope so. Mary can almost glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel... but what ever the outcome the beer will flow...and wait until you see the corgis. :{)
The comments on the youtube page are great.
What an idiot she is.
She “won” by 204 votes and knew there would be a recount.
Gee, Kloppy, looks like it’s crap sandwiches with no cheese for you and your dem pals on the menu for lunch tomorrow!
Hee Hee Hee
>Conservatives and Republicans lose not because of union thugs, but because too many conservatives don’t vote!<
I DISAGREE> Like I stated in one thread, conservatives ‘PRAY’...Dems CHEAT. Praying doesn’t win elections. It’s about time we get off our high horse and do whatever is necessary to win.
In 2012, IF Obama wins. I find out that most Freepers only statement is “pray for our nation”. Well, Im tired of praying.
And the dems and unions spent 3 mil on this race. It meant a lot to them.
Wonder if they will pony up for a recount since they would have to pay and probably have no chance of winning now.
Well have it your way then.. Either way, it worked.
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
The words of Winston Churchill sum this up best.
We still have a lot of hard work ahead.
lol
Yup, check it out:
Wait and see......this is not over.....
“Election tampering should be punished with Capital Punishment!
Too many have given thehir lives for this nonsense!”
The Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth, so help me God.
What? They don’t like the outcome?! Nothing was stolen.
“Nothing was stolen.”
Anytime Dems lose a close race, they think it’s “stolen”. Sore losers, every time.
Horrible headline writing, is it intentional? The error took away Prosser's votes, it's a correction of the error that restored them.
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