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.
Has Madison reported verified results yet? A big surprise from the college students and the unions could be in store after they see how many votes they need to discover.
WI PING
HA! LOL!
I just gotta think a republican did this on purpose to defeat the usual shenanigans the democrats pull.
And when we lose faith in the voting booth, revolution soon follows.
Holy crap!!!
I haven’t seen this reported anywhere else.
I love the smell of napalm after a failed election overthrow ...
Countdown until the scream of “It’s just another case of republican voter fraud!” is heard from the dims. Three, two. one......
Is the computer I bought in January antiquated yet?
If so, that still sucks. All it does is make people even more cynical about elections.
This may be an ‘intentional’ error. We’ll see.
“Press conference scheduled for forty-five minutes from now with the official announcement”...read it on HOTAIR...HOT DAMN!!!
>>>OH MY...IT IS TRUE!!!
Because HotAir said so?
I’d trust a more local source...
Heads exploding at DU. Blame Koch Brothers, Haliburton, etc.
As long as computers count the ballots, the left will win every time, like it does in Oregon and Washington States.
State Legislatures should pass laws that we go back to precinct polling places, and hand counted ballots the old fashioned way.
Computers are easily manipulated. If a Republican is ahead, the computers “break down”, and when they come back up, the Democrat is ahead! Happens every time!
So let’s see some good legislation concerning our voting process. Vote by mail is open to fraud, too.
WTH, a Tandy 1000???
As I've told people before, it is no longer, "Garbage In, Garbage Out." It is really "Garbage In, Gospel Out."
Nice.
The only thing to make this better would be finding out they intentionally held them back in order to let the rats fudge their numbers first.
If the is true, Klaptrap is done!
May be intentional shenanigans by the republicans. Maybe somebody found cajones and pulled a dem trick this time around.
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