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Live thread: Wisconsin Supreme Court election - Prosser vs Kloppenburg
http://elections.620wtmj.com/G8801.htm ^ | 4/5/11

Posted on 04/05/2011 4:56:48 PM PDT by Jean S

Edited on 04/05/2011 8:26:32 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: unspun

What?


1,601 posted on 04/05/2011 11:15:21 PM PDT by tunedin
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Kloppenburg has 49 remaining precincts in counties with current vote totals of 4.26 million where she’s averaging a 22% margin of victory.

Huh? Vote totals of 4.26 million? So far it looks like total votes of 1,454,528 have been reported so far, with David Prosser holding a slim lead of 1,878 votes.

I guess I don't understand your numbers.

1,602 posted on 04/05/2011 11:15:25 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: comebacknewt

Ashland (6), Dane (1), Eau Claire (21), Milwaukee (14) still to be counted. It’s over. Kloppenburg takes it easily.


1,603 posted on 04/05/2011 11:15:42 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: unspun

“I think more and more bad stuff is going to be unearthed. Just keep looking and others will, too.”

Are you trying to trick me into cleaning the cat pan???


1,604 posted on 04/05/2011 11:16:22 PM PDT by Squeeky ("Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. " Emily Dickinson)
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To: stars & stripes forever

I’ve been an election judge in WI. Ballot counting is automated. It’s the double checking of the count (proving the balance) that takes a long time — particularly if somebody has made a mistake.

We were there in my precinct until 1 AM in the Nov. 2010 election. I wasn’t the judge for that one; I was in charge of registration. But, some of the assistents were careless and somehow 7 votes were switched from one Ward to another (there were 2 different ballots). It took all night to figure it out.

Personally, I think that 7 people messed up their ballots and reached over and helped themselves to the wrong ballot while the precinct workers were distracted. (We had 2 ballots at our box with different names and races on them.) We had 7 more people voting in one of the elections than registered and 7 less people casting ballots in the other election than registered.

The reason that I think that was the explanation is that I was registering people and I observed the group huddled at the table ignoring voters while they opened and checked absentee ballots. I reported it, but the Chief Inspector didn’t believe me. The County Clerk decided that the ballot box had malfunctioned which is a much scarier thought than if 3 Dems (that’s why I was watching them) weren’t paying attention.

The registration book and the blank ballots for the election that was overcast by 7 was located closest to the voting booths. The 3 Dems were flapping their mouths and not paying attention to what was going on around them. It sounds hard to believe, but 7 people just took a new ballot, except is was the wrong ballot. Apparently they were too stupid to notice that their substitute ballot had the wrong names on it.

Or, would you rather believe that the electronic ballot box malfunctioned? Actually, a malfunction wouldn’t explain it because we had an actual ballot count that was wrong by 7.


1,605 posted on 04/05/2011 11:16:26 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: BAW

fellow freeper “comebacknewt”


1,606 posted on 04/05/2011 11:16:42 PM PDT by Kahuna
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

When all is said and done less than 1.5 million votes will have been cast. And AP hasn’t exactly been accurate in it’s precinct counts.


1,607 posted on 04/05/2011 11:16:50 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Kahuna

Newt? Sheesh, does he have to have an opinion about everything? I’m sick of him.


1,608 posted on 04/05/2011 11:17:09 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Scanian
I hope Walker can earn his money. IIRC the only Rat in statewide office in the liberal hack SOS. He'll certainly try to twist things. Walker needs to do better than TPauw did in Minnesota overcoming such.

55 precincts still out (1 from Dane, 12 from Milwaukee) with Prosser still up 1878. The latest 33 precincts netted Kloppy a gain of 1 vote each.

1,609 posted on 04/05/2011 11:17:30 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (JC Mark II: a month late and $2.3T short. Again!)
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1,610 posted on 04/05/2011 11:17:52 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. *4192*)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

It does makes a big difference when you are counting thousands of ballots instead just a couple of hundred.


1,611 posted on 04/05/2011 11:19:26 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever
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To: JLS

No, I said it was a very crude and very quick estimation. The averages mean next to nothing. The size of the vote totals in the counties of the precincts left to be counted and the margins in those counties tell me all I need to know. They have the votes. I don’t need to crunch the numbers any more. It’s obvious.

I’m not trying to be a downer. I was holding out hope until I spent two minutes looking at the numbers. Prosser simply can’t win with what’s left on the table.


1,612 posted on 04/05/2011 11:20:20 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

And here it starts.......

How come it is always the DEM strongholds that are always the last ones. Prosser up almost all night, and then BAMMM....

I hope I am wrong...


1,613 posted on 04/05/2011 11:20:30 PM PDT by neverbluffer
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Those numbers would be with Eau Claire 100% reporting; their finals are on the county website now and the numbers match your post exactly.


1,614 posted on 04/05/2011 11:20:30 PM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: Jean S

Supreme Court REPORTING 99% David Prosser (inc) 733,074 50% Joanne Kloppenburg 732,489 50%


1,615 posted on 04/05/2011 11:21:54 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Better to keep your enemy in your sights than in your camp expecting him to guard your back.)
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To: rcrngroup

Sorry, 426,000 vs. 71,000. A stray zero snuck in there. It’s late. I’m pissed.


1,616 posted on 04/05/2011 11:22:29 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Kahuna
In my defense, I was relying on the AP numbers which turned out to be bogus.

On the other hand, I should have known better than to trust AP in the first place. ;)

I still think that IF the AP numbers are now correct, Prosser will lose. That is an awfully big IF though.

1,617 posted on 04/05/2011 11:22:40 PM PDT by comebacknewt
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To: xjcsa
If Milwaukee is still out, yep it is over
1,618 posted on 04/05/2011 11:22:58 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Sorry Prosser, we all know you have to beat the Democratic Socialist candidate by more than 5% to defeat the margin of cheating. You made a good run at it, tho’.


1,619 posted on 04/05/2011 11:23:13 PM PDT by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I’m hearing a couple of things that may keep some hope alive.

First, some (most?) of the outstanding precincts are “empty” precincts - no voters.

Second, that Milwaukee is actually 100% in.

Third, Eau Claire is 100% reported. Their results cut the Prosser lead to 585.

I guess we’ll see what happens.


1,620 posted on 04/05/2011 11:23:14 PM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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