Posted on 04/07/2011 3:15:35 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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.”
A message from Wisconsin MoveOn volunteer and Regional Organizer Steve Hughes:
Dear fellow MoveOn member,
I'm writing to you from Wisconsin, ground zero in the fight between Republicans and the middle class, where we just had a HUGE win!
I'm literally breathless. I'm witnessing history. Incumbent candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court generally get re-elected in a landslide. But in the general election on Tuesday, progressive JoAnne Kloppenburg closed the gap and won by a razor thin margin against conservative justice David Prosser!
The result was extremely close, and there's still a recount to grapple with, but this is a HUGE change from the primary where she lost 25% to 55% to conservative Justice David Prosser before Walker's attacks on workers began. And it's proof that the grassroots army that formed to battle Governor Scott Walker is a force to be reckoned with.
Tuesday night, all of us volunteers sat around the Kloppenburg office, right next to the Wisconsin 14, and watched these historic returns come in together.
And I knew it was happening because thousands of us MoveOn members, along with our friends and allies, voted, volunteered, knocked doors, hit the phones, and got out the vote through our emails, posts and tweets. We're a part of this, but now we need to make sure what happened in Wisconsin doesn't stay in Wisconsin.
The Republicans in Washington are copying Walker's radical "my way or the highway" tactics, threatening to shutdown the government in order to force the Democrats to cave on the budget. They're willing to harm countless Americans in order to impose their agenda on the rest of us.
But MoveOn is fighting back, just like we are in Wisconsin. They're planning a huge nationwide campaign, capturing the energy from our victory to win this massive battle for our nation's future against the Republicans' plans to destroy decades of progressive legislation, including our entire social safety net.
Enjoy a good laugh, I did.
Can’t we just all get along?
Waukesha Democrat canvasser backed up the numbers on news conference!
WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!
Bravo!!! I watched in November in Colorado as vote totals were withheld in urban Democrat precincts until the wee hours in our senate race. The Republican was in the lead at 1 am when I went to bed, and once everyone else had reported, the liberal precincts came in at just the right amount to take the lead. Glad someone finally figured it out!
On that note.... cheers!
I love the sound of liberal weeping... it sounds like... victory.
It’s about time the Democrat Party got a taste of its own cheating on them! I don’t care if they are fake or not, really. All I want is for them to ‘count’......just like Democrats when they’ve been up all night faking ballots.
PROSSER WINS!! And the Dem witness who was there in Waukesha County the entire time the votes were tallied confirmed it..who knew, an honest dem, heck I had no clue they even existed anymore..well she confirmed that Prosser indeed DID win!! Great day..GO PROSSER!!
Seriously, It’s head must literally be POUNDING after spinning like that!
It’s too bad Sir Rah doesn’t have a past posting/commenting history that goes back to 2008, say..........Then we might have seen if his “cheating is cheating” schtick would hold true....
Not when you see posters making assumptions based on a “media” report.
Kloppenburg declaring victory makes this so much sweeter.
Prosser wins!
Wisconsin is very important,and lucky to have Governor Waljer.I wish our Governor Daniels was a conservative.
But these latest vote totals have me feeling much beter.Just don't let the Dhimm do another "franken".
I join you in thanking our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He heard our prayers.
This is why it is always important to pray, even after all the elections are over and the result seems to be a fait accompli.
AMEN!
We have better technology. Why oh why can't we find a way to count votes that is honest and earns trust?
Amen, I stopped believing in coincidences many many years ago. If it walks and quacks it’s a pretty sure bet it is.
This is great news it’s been confirmed, and by a Rat no less. :-)
That's the general behavior I've witnessed on the news forum on FR for the last 14 years. I suppose if one were to make an assumption based upon a "media" report to post on a conservative forum, Weekly Standard might be a better bet than say Reuters.
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