Why you people doubted my gut is beyond me! Well, even *I* doubted my gut on THIS one...just a little bit...LOL!
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.
like the russian proverb supposedly goes, “pray to God and row towards the shore”
I was on the thread where we were keeping tabs of the results on Tues. eve.
This county was listed as not reporting a lot of precincts for a long time and then all of a sudden the AP was saying that all had reported and yet there was no change in the numbers. This should have been spotted then!
Unlikely in this case since it’s the title of a blog post over at National Review.
“Thank God. Okay, we’re up 7,000 plus, so if the pull a Franken now it’s going to be CWII.”
Typically, there’s no way the other side could manufacture enough votes to overcome this deficit. When you look at the Gregoire and Franken challenges, there was a matter of only a few hundred votes...but to overcome this election they would have to find over 7500 votes!
The beauty of this election is that they thought they had won, declared victory, and said that everything was on the up and up.
It would be very hard for them to claim voter fraud at this juncture.
And paper ballots and purple fingers...
bttt
Why you people doubted my gut is beyond me! Well, even *I* doubted my gut on THIS one...just a little bit...LOL!
Isn’t it wonderful!
I got the great news Thursday around 6pm.
Saw the live news conference out of Milwaukee then too.
My hubby gave me the news when I was done with work yesterday before 6, and I said “you better not be kidding about this...”.
It’s about time the Good Guys got a break.
A big JimRob “WOO HOO!”
you’re missing the point.
The voter only has a COPY of the receipt.
The actual paper would be collected at the ballot box....and should total out to the machine, and vice versa.
You can’t do anything about selling your vote, that’s much different than the general types of fraud that help Dems win elections.
One verifiable man. One Verifiable vote.
When a thourough and unbiased investigation is done by someone in the future it will likely show this country was not much different than a Banana Republic over the last 50 years—sad to say. A pox on both the Pubbie and demrat parties for this sad state of affairs.
Thankfully, the Prosser case is cracking the secret codes. I’m increasingly of the opinion that we ordinary citizens—Tea Party Minutemen (I include women in that title) as it were—will have to wrest power from the political class by whatever means. Then, reacquaint ourselves with the The Constitution and Bill of Rights and then restart our political process.
All the idiots in DC are doing right now is picking away at the edges.
The data from that country on election night was wacky, and if you look back at the thread, I and a lot of others noticed that. I mistakenly thought that AP has misreported the districts reporting early, rather than the problem in the vote totals.
Thankfully, the Prosser case is cracking the secret codes.
Told my State Senator (anticipating recall) and Assembly man its time to go to purple fingers.
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