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.”
So far nothing on L'OD, but Schultz and Maddow have been gloating on it all week:”Big victory for progressives”. In fact just yesterday there was a DU post that said that. That's gotta hurt!
It is possible to work very hard and be cocky. Try it. Meekness has no place in today’s politics. As an extra benefit, it pisses-off LIBs.
If you aren’t a mod, you should be. Where do we vote?
Exactly! The AP IS NOT the arbiter of elections!
There's nothing wrong with the system, just the dimwit republican broad who was responsible for the loss of those ballots........
She needs to be relieved of duty........or fired.
You are so right.
I have been involved with 3 unions in my time, Two of them from both sides of the fence due to promotion to management.
And what you say is right. They are crude, rude, socially unacceptable and always, always operate with a thinly veiled threat of violence.
Holy Moly!
Talk about stopping a clock!
That came from Alan Colmes so I thought I’d inquire here to get more accuracy (and honesty).
TY
Her smug mug during her “victory” speech, deserved some well-deserved (if catty) consideration of who she resembled.
Let's make sure we keep our fact straight. These votes were never "lost" No votes were "found". The votes were properly counted by the local precincts and reported to the county elections office. The county elections office duly recorded the results. The only thing that happened is that the results for this city were inadvertently omitted from a spreadsheet sent to the AP, so the AP was reporting incorrect totals.
Well, them progs are always behind the times.
They probably are trying to figure out what kind of weasel headlines they can use now.
Poor Alan is having a bad night!
It might be fun to actually tune in PMSNBC tonight for the gnashing of teeth and wailing!
LOL!
And our local radio hosts tomorrow, Vicki and Mark! Oh those will be must-hear shows!
Can’t wait!
UHHHH no
Valid point there. When I am king, only you, I, and Dave Barry will have the microphone. Only then will the media become a thing of purity, wisdom, and grace.
At that point, I'll retire to the Caribbean, diet on conch and mojitos, write my articles of truth and wisdom on my iPhone. You?
They only went as far as Virginia?
Isn’t it time for Moochelle to go to Paris again?
She needs some more 500 dollar sneakers!
Bad sizing, but we got aliens, man.
Maybe they won’t avoid scrutiny anyway. Walker plays for keeps I think.
Man those ‘RATS must be going bat-$hit crazy!
If they’d only KNOWN those +7300 votes were out there, they would have manufactured another 7500 for themselves!!
-PJ
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