Wis. lawmaker asks [Federal] AG to look into voting issues

Stamford Advocate.com ^ | April 9, 2011 | AP

[PapaBear3625]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin is asking for a federal investigation into the surprise discovery of 14,000 votes in Waukesha County for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

The Wisconsin Democrat sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Friday night asking him to assign the Justice Department Public Integrity Section. It oversees the federal prosecution of election crimes.

[newzjunkey]

[Road Warrior ‘04]

As I understand it it wasn’t a surprise discovery of votes. It was just a mistake in what was reported to the AP.

You are absolutely correct! The AP is not the arbiter of elections, period!

[PapaBear3625]

I’m in Pennsylvania.

[combat_boots]

Why was a REPUBLICAN county undercounted so severely in the first place?

Why would a DEMOCRAT keep vote tallies to be counted on a private PC?

[WePledge]

That article is satire/parody. Factually correct but manufactured none the less.

[grey_whiskers]

D@mmit, John, you Rick-Roll'd me AGAIN!

...seriously, take a bow. Well-done, my lad.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

According to the website Legal Insurrection, the correct totals were reported to AOL on April 6.

You know, before the crud hit the fan.

Cheers!

[mdmathis6]

That was posted from a satire site.

[wendy1946]

I say again, this is no way to live. You can’t have a serious country in which, on a given day, half the people are walking around feeling totally subjugated. We need to be thinking about arranging a rational divorce somehow or other.

[Once-Ler]

Why was a REPUBLICAN county undercounted so severely in the first place?

Why would a DEMOCRAT keep vote tallies to be counted on a private PC?

The county wasn't under counted. It was under reported to the press because of human error by a solid Republican using a goverment laptop. Or it was a brilliant move by a GOP operative to preempt rat vote stealing.

[Fido969]

Or it was a brilliant move by a GOP operative to preempt rat vote stealing.

Or just a "brilliant mistake."

Gosh, whatever it was, it was delicious. Exposed the 'rats for the world to see. Bravo!

[Tzimisce]

I’m sure Holder will be fair and impartial and not let politics muck this up.

/sarc

[chuckee]

Tammy, can you name one election in the last 50 years where a Republican has been accused of stealing votes let alone actually caught stealing votes.This is a Democrat pastime.Unlike your voters, all our votes are cast from among the living.

[Crim]

Nope...you have it right...

[Gondring]

The other issue that they are bringing up is that the percentage of ballots that voted on just that one race, something often used as an indicator of fraudulent votes, was reportedly highest in that county. I don’t know details.

[Chuck54]

Some far left loon trying to make it a federal crime to furnish incorrect data to the Associated Press?

Wouldn't surprise me a bit to see Holder agree. What a bunch of losers you poor citizens of WI have for representatives.

[hoosiermama]

Since when was it illegal to not report to the AP?

[Shady]

THAT says it all. Case closed...

[DBrow]

“Yep. The claimed 90% turnout in Dane Co. is a joke.”

Once the precinct workers think that all of the voters have turned out, they simply “vote” ALL of the remaining registered voters. They fill in ballots for the people they want, and punch random votes for the rest. If pressed for time, like if the “wrong” poll watcher are on the way, they can only vote for one or two key candidates.

This is very very easy to do with paper ballots, as the precinct can ask for additional ballots due to “heavy turnout”, and mark them or punch them in some back room out of sight. Another key is extending the hours, which can get rid of some poll watchers.

With all-electronic machines, the poll workers must enter each “vote” one-by-one, and there is a time stamp.

The end result is one precinct with 99% turnout adjacent to one with the usual 20-30%.

[madinmadtown]

The real anomalies are in the voting patterns are of Dane (Madison) and Milwaukee counties. In Dane county where 90% of the voters who voted in the Obama election voted in this election. A completely unprecedented number in such an election. It makes NO sense...it is a GIANT mathematical exclamation point of something is rotten. In Milwaukee county almost forty percent voted when the expectation was around twenty-five percent. These are the outliers. They are the truly inexplicable and fraudulent numbers. The real attention should be focused on Milwaukee and Dane county and the counties near Dane such as Columbia and Iowa and Jefferson (which are easy drives from the campus). The Democratic strongholds are the numbers that are statistically off...and way off. Brookfield is easily explained, Dane and Milwaukee are not.