Posted on 05/05/2011 5:17:15 PM PDT by Hamilcar_Barca
The recount for the state Supreme Court race has come to this: Votes from nuns have been thrown out.
The twist in the race between Justice David Prosser and challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg came during the recount in Sauk County. There, ballots of Cistercian nuns from the Valley of Our Lady Monastery in Prairie du Sac were rejected...
After reading the article it doesn’t sound like an underhanded deal. I see no need to sic the media on them.
“The Prosser campaign made two appeals to have the ballots counted, including early Wednesday, but they were turned down by the board of canvassers, Bolin said.”
I’m not sure of the law but why would Prosser think it was okay to appeal twice?
I do see the argument they’re making in regard to no witness signature; however, if they’re doing that with these [absentee] ballots then ALL [absentee] ballots need to be held to the same standard.
Ah, but some piggies are more equal than others...
You’re right! They should have doubled the votes Prosser lost from this chicanery, just to teach him a lesson! How dare he appeal twice. We’ll fix that trickster.
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Wouldn’t these votes help Kloppenburg.
Statement from the Prosser campaign:
Statement of Brian Schimming, director, Justice Prosser’s Recount Effort, regarding the disenfranchisement of votes of 18 nuns from the Valley of our Lady Monastery in Prairie du Sac, Sauk County:
“While we have been reluctant to make public comments during the recount period, the Kloppenburg campaign’s attack on the votes of 18 nuns from the Valley of our Lady Monastery in Prairie du Sac is wrong at best and totally reprehensible at worst.
“This recount is costing Wisconsin taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars already. There is to date not one shred of evidence whatsoever that it will change the outcome of the election. To make this extremely costly and sorry spectacle even worse by challenging the legitimate votes of 18 nuns at a monastery is a breathtaking abuse of the recount process.”
“I would simply ask Ms. Kloppenburg to act at the most basic level of decency; apologize to the 18 nuns who reside at the monastery for her campaign’s interference with their right to vote, withdraw her objection and ask that the ballots be reinstated.”
http://www.620wtmj.com/shows/charliesykes/121344379.html
Great clarifying update. Thanks smoothsailing.
Well, I am a Republican and a Prossser supporter. I am also a trained election examiner. In this case he is wrong. All absentee ballots must be witnessed.
Now, where I’d quibble is how these votes were eliminated. How come the non-witnessed votes were not rejected before they were ever cast? The witnessing signature is on the outside of the ballot envelope and it’s easy to see whether they have been witnessed, or not. In fact it has been known that the city clerk will call the voter before the election and tell them to get down to city hall and get somone to witness the ballot, if the missing signature is noticed before election day.
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It would probably depend on the order and age of the Nuns. Old Nuns seem to be generally liberal. Younger Nuns seem to be more conservative, like priests.
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The article is pretty short on information such as the vote difference between the two. Perhaps this one small town is used as the wedge to get a hand count of the total vote. As I recall, too lazy to go back and reread the article, they were already starting that process.
Just an afterthought: If these nuns are cloistered, as the article says, why are they even voting? If sealed off from the outside world how did they even know an election was going on?
Democrat Gets Nuns’ Votes Tossed in Wisconsin Recount
I bet the nuns don't belong to the bakers union, that's the problem.
Charlie-
I have been an observer in the Sauk County Recount room.
The left is rabid to block anything pro Prosser. I wasn’t there today but know Prosser’s attorney has tried several times to get the Nuns’ votes counted.
The first day of the recount was relatively peaceful but that changed quickly to a level of hostility that forced the staff to set new rules of conduct.
I’ll be back there tomorrow afternoon.
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