Prosser Now Up 7,000+ Votes After Error Is Corrected

Weekly Standard ^ | 4-7-2011 | Stephen F. Hayes

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Prosser Now Up 7,000+ Votes After Error Is Corrected

Stephen F. Hayes

April 7, 2011 5:57 PM

Supreme Court justice David Prosser has picked up more than 7,381 votes in Waukesha County, a conservative county outside of Milwaukee, as part of the statewide canvass following the election for Supreme Court on Tuesday. The total gives Prosser a comfortable lead as the canvass continues Friday.

The error came when Waukesha County clerk Kathy Nickolaus failed to save some 14,000 votes that came from wards in Brookfield before passing the vote total along to the Associated Press. County officials discovered the mistake Wednesday and shared the information with state election officials on Thursday. Prosser won Waukesha County with more than 70 percent of the vote there.

Wisconsin sources say that the paper trail on the votes will be obvious and difficult for anyone to dispute. Either votes from Brookfield were counted in the initial tally or they weren’t. Still, the discovery of the extra votes is sure to stoke the embers of the heated battles that have taken place across the state over the past two months, particularly because Nickolaus, the woman at the center of the controversy, is a Republican activist. A posting on the website of the Republican Women of Waukesha County indicates that Kathy Nickolaus recently served as president of that group.

But several sources have pointed to questions about her competence in the past. In August, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that her superiors “ordered an audit of the county clerk's election equipment and system beginning with the September primary despite several memos she sent to the committee over the weekend defending her practices and resisting the move.”

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[BulletBobCo]

[txhurl]

SHE IS AN ALIEN!

Ick, praise the Lord that lizard is back off to slithering where she came from.

[skaterboy]

Dp u believe in miracles

[skaterboy]

Do u believe in miracles

[Brown Deer]

Nickolaus: “We do have on the board of canvass..a Democrat...Ramona Kitzinger.”
Kitzinger, Dem canvass witness: “We went over everything & made sure the numbers jibed up & they did...We’re satisfied that it’s correct.”
Kitzinger, Dem witness: “I’m the vice chair of Waukesha Democrats. I wouldn’t stand here... & tell you something that’s not true.”

[madameguinot]

When is the press conference where they grill the overanxious AP reporter?

[heiss]

In unrelated news, 7,000 votes for union thug (plus 1 more than Prosser’s tally) found tomorrow morning!

[Cheerio]

Just checked my email - this came in this late this afternoon....

Michael Keegan, People For the American Way
Thursday, April 7, 2011 3:23 PM

Dear xxxxx,

The votes have been counted, and although the results were incredibly close and a recount is likely, it looks like we did it! With historically high turnout -- 1.5 million people for an April election -- Wisconsin voters on Tuesday voted to send Gov. Scott Walker’s staunchest ally on the Wisconsin Supreme Court packing.

As a PFAW supporter, you know better than most that judges matter. Justice David Prosser was a very right-wing state legislator before becoming a very right-wing, pro-corporate judge on the state’s high court. He had made statements indicating that he would be little more than Walker’s proxy on the court, especially when hearing the inevitable legal challenges against Walker’s legislative assault on workers and the middle class.

Of course, corporate cash poured in by the boatload to help Prosser hold his seat -- via expenditures by groups like Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, the so-called Citizens for a Strong America (CSA), Wisconsin Club for Growth and the State Tea Party Express.

With the money and the odds stacked against us, this victory of People Power over Corporate Power is a testament to the strength of our new movement to rein in the right-wing and corporate rapaciousness that’s destroying our middle class.

Prosser’s opponent JoAnne Kloppenburg’s victory was a close one -- only a few hundred votes -- and Prosser will likely request a recount. But just a month ago, Prosser was polling way ahead of Kloppenburg. And if this victory stands, it will be only the fifth time a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice has been unseated since the court's establishment in 1852.

Your support for People For the American Way helped make a difference in this incredibly close election. We called Wisconsin voters, put up ads and mobilized our Wisconsin members to help turn out the progressive vote.

We’ll take the moment from this win right into the recall fight and, with your continued support, we’ll win those battles too. Just today it was announced that enough recall petitions have been collected to force the recall election of so-far the second Walker-supporting Republican Wisconsin senator. And petition efforts are still under way for other potentially Republican vulnerable senators.

Stay with us in this fight -- not just in Wisconsin but in every state. With the Tea Party-dominated Republican U.S. House majority’s new attacks on Medicare and Medicaid, and their apparent willingness to shut down the U.S. government rather than have their corporate donors and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes, this fight is now truly a national one.

Thank you for all that you do.

Sincerely,
Michael Keegan, President


Had a good laugh just reading this - there must be heads exploding over in lib land.

[dfwgator]

Kitzinger may wake up tomorrow with a horse’s head in her bed.

[BIGLOOK]

I suppose there's some lesson to be learned here.....again.

It's once again that the voting records have been rectified and the accusation of cheating in a densely Republican county comes from the sinister left....Shades of the 2000 debacle in Florida.

A friend of mine in Florida said during a phone chat that he thought all critical elections would go this route. Minnesota, California, Washington state certainly proved his prediction but on the bright side there are now 29 states with Republican governors and legislatures so maybe the tide has turned.

[Gaffer]

I wouldn’t normally opt for cheating because I believe as you. However, it doesn’t hurt to rub their damned noses in it and prove the win legally while telling them in the background, “You get what you give, creeps!”

[Elsiejay]

Do not discount their talents for chicanery.

[glock rocks]

Holy carp. The cool mod must have been reading the thread and had a zot moment with nary a ping.

How cool is that?

[fwdude]

Too funny, if it weren’t so possible.

[Free Vulcan]

Pigs...pigs flying outside my window!

[Fido969]

Actually, the ‘rats are relieved. They know that the funny business they pulled in Madison wouldn't hold up to scrutiny, that's why there wasn't much widespread celebrating on the “rat side after the early results, they were nervous.

Now they can avoid scrutiny, while claiming the “’pubs stole the election.”

[prairiebreeze]

The article says she failed to save those votes before passing the (wrong) total to the AP.

??

Kloppenkommie declared herself to be the winner, didn’t she? (I’ve lost a little of the story over the past 24 hours.)

[fwdude]

Unofficial means unofficial, and even at that time it was known that the thousands of votes from Waukeesha were still outstanding.

Exactly. There was no malfeasance here. The error was found in the official tallying, as it should have. What was reported to the UrineStream press was just sloppy preliminary data. They should have known this.

Why aren't the press bellyaching about all the other adjustments in every other county and precinct?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I don’t think that is right, his net gain was some 7500 according to Fox, a total of 11,000 combined votes doesn’t work.

"Doesn't work?" How about

Prosser 9,775

Klingonburger 2,225

Assuming the 11K total and +7.5K for Prosser are correct.

[fwdude]

To be fair, she was gracious in claiming victory. Republicans would have done the same.

Now, on to victory!!