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.”
Most of us disagree - she deserves a hand for accidentally giving the dims major fits!
Amen!
So that means the newspapers who ran that bulls**t “Wisconsin voters send stinging rebuke to Scott Walker” stories are all printing retractions .. right?
Hello? McFly?
No, it would still be in the 50-50 range, but more like 50.60 to 49.40.
I think the automatic recount goes away if the difference is 1/2 of 1% or less, which it no longer is. I’m not sure about that, though, although I fairly sure I read that on the election night thread from someone who was giving a running analysis based on his/her knowledge of WI.
One day after Wisconsin voters turned out in force for a judicial election widely seen as a referendum on Gov. Scott Walker’s law ending collective bargaining for public workers, the president of the AFL-CIO declared, “the labor movement has a rich and vibrant future.” In a speech called “The Future of Unions," Richard Trumka insisted that term is no oxymoron.
“The over-reaching of anti-worker politicians today may have given us the game-changer we need,” he said at Wayne State University in Detroit. “It may have provided the sparks for the next surge of labor.”
Re-write!
So, since Kloppencommie LOST - then by his own logic, we can conclude that unions HAVE NO future, and the over-reaching by the smelly hippies in Wisconsin was the "game changer" that will seal their fate.
Hey, it's HIS argument!
Take out Madison, and how does it break?
there will be recount. Now it just has to be paid by unions (i.e. taxpayer money that was confiscated by unions)
Oh, yes, now they'll be telling us that the election was a rebuke of the fleebaggers!
Confusing American Pravda with random vote totals should be standard procedure for the GOP.
"Wisconsin voters as well as the Kloppenburg for Justice Campaign deserve a full explanation of how and why these 14,000 votes from an entire City were missed... yammer, sputter, outrage, innuendo..."
No votes were "missed." They were correctly tallied and recorded. The city total simply wasn't reported in a timely way to the AP, which is, after all, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DNC.
I'll be waiting for the retractions from the press. But I won't be holding my breath.
I will, however, be reminding them on their websites. Every day, if necessary.
You're a nutcase if you think that it would help the GOP to remove an elected official from office by fiat! In fact, I would even stand up against the GOP for such an abuse.
Now all we need is a pic of James O’Keefe sneaking off with the F5 button from that clerk’s machine.
I just love this. Most deserved and unexpected monkeywrench in recent political memory.
Think the voters will remember that long, and vote in a Democrat instead next time?
That's right, they are, LOL!
Anyone can demand a recount, whenever, regardless of the "official" margin?
I'm not saying you're wrong...I'm just thinking there must be a threshold beyond which a recount will not be granted.
Let's just say I'm HOPING you're wrong.
This is absolutely delicious, even more so because it's completely fair. I feel like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown.
And ... loving it.
music to my ears!!!!
For some eye candy... try doing a google search for "Wisconsin Walker loss" to see the hundreds of liberal scumbags gloating over this apparent 'defeat' for Walker!
its called old back some numbers so the dems don’t know how many votes to manufacture. way to go WI!
Words cannot even approach the total awesomeness of this.
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