Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Vote Totals Posted on Election Night by AolHuffington Post

Big Government ^ | Apr 11th 2011 | Media Trackers

[tlb]

Conspiracy theorists are in full force with a Democratic congresswoman even asking the United States Attorney General to investigate the Waukesha County election returns that gave the Supreme Court race to David Prosser, but they might want to call up Arianna Huffington first.

That’s because Patch, a new media site in Brookfield that Huffington oversees, reported the Brookfield election returns to the public… on election night.

And they were the same returns the city is reporting now that Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus has finally added Brookfield into the countywide returns. That means there’s no big conspiracy – Nickolaus just didn’t pass the returns on to the state and Associated Press on election night as she should have done. No returns or votes “materialized” – they were reported on election night by a site overseen by one of the most prominent liberals in the country.

Huffington Post updated its own story on the Waukesha election returns after receiving the information about the Brookfield Patch story.

The original Huffington Post story was updated to note: “UPDATE: 11:20 p.m. — Perhaps the most convincing evidence so far that human error explains the initial omission of Brookfield’s results comes from our colleagues at the Brookfield Patch. On election night, they reported a vote total for Brookfield that exactly matches the vote total Nickolaus did not include in the County level count until Thursday.”

[tlb]

Full long title "No Conspiracy in Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, Brookfield Vote Totals Posted on Election Night by AolHuffington Post Reporter"

Since the conspiracy theories aren't going away, some might want to give this story a temporary bookmark. I got to use this link elsewhere to shut down a rant about how the votes were "discovered" after the election. I showed him Huffington had them all along, and suddenly the topic shifted elsewhere.

[badgerlandjim]

Yeah, but the Huff-Po info is “old news” and no longer operational. Pay no attention to it.

[Venturer]

Let ‘em cry, They can’t change a thing.

[lowbridge]

bump

[Johnny B.]

It would be interesting if they tried to hide this fact in their later reporting. That would be pretty compelling evidence of bias and fraud.

Not that I need it, but it would be great to rub this in the face of the left-wing nut jobs I know.

[C. Edmund Wright]

It would be the irony of all ironies if the HuffPo coverage on election night was the final death knell for the “lovely” Ms Kloppenberg.

[Free Vulcan]

There are libs out there that want Brookfield to have zero votes, and completely disenfranchise the voters there. That’s the only conclusion you can come to after hearing their paranoid conspiracy theories.