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.”
Head for the Ft. Lauderdale docks and there are any number of crooked “captains” (boat owners) who will be only too happy to take you to Cuba.
Or you can just hop over to Nassau and get a tourist visa to go see Raul and Fidel if you want.
KloppTrap looks like she needs a vacation.
What does making a profit have to do with anything? What a bourgeois concept! What a betrayal by the peacocks!
/s
free recount at less than a half of a percent and a fee,$5 per ward beyond that.
I saw that, of course Ed went on to call for an investigation, but he never did that with Al Frankin :)
LOL. It’s like two vaudeville magicians, on each side of the stage, pulling scarves out of their sleeves!
I believe this correction proves you right, ie, this margin makes far more sense from overall meta-projections than the previous .015
I was thinking more along of the lines of the county commissioners making inquiry into her procedures.
She maintains it was human error.....could be. Could also be that tighter procedures or better equipment need to be implemented.
If she were head of the local democrat organization certifying elections, we’d want this, no reason to not apply the same standard.
BTW, this woman in NO way deserves to be fired. I just made a similar mistake this week when I printed out an earlier version of a document that I had saved before I added another paragraph. I happened to have printed a copy of the complete document so I had a record of that paragraph. I have never worked an election, but I know that it must be very stressful when there is a high turn out for a hotly contested election. Real mistakes are made all the time. That is why the votes are canvased and rechecked before the election results are certified. As Jesus said, let you who are without sin (i.e. perfect people who have never made an honest mistake) cast the first stone!
Probably just an oversight, but maybe, just maybe, the GOP is starting to get the hang of how to beat the voter fraud. Hold back a significant block of votes with a clear paper trail, wait for 'rats to manufacture their votes, then "correct" the "oversight".
That would probably be giving Republicans too much credit, though.
But at the news conference with Nickolaus, Ramona Kitzinger, the Democrat on the Waukesha County Board of Canvassers, said: "We went over everything and made sure all the numbers jibed up and they did. Those numbers jibed up, and we're satisfied they're correct."This is one of those horrible paradoxes where to ascertain the veracity of a positive outcome you must believe the integrity of your enemy.As a Democrat, she said, "I'm not going to stand here and tell you something that's not true." --Wisconsin State-Journal
Wow. So Prosser actually has an official lead of 60,000 votes?? It’s early, I may not be reading your post correctly...
do you have a link on that?
And without cheating - it's not election fraud to not tell the Associated Press how many votes there are.
"Situational ethics"
Wow this Klopfenfelter chick really really shouldn’t have done that press interview. She is awful.
If this is accurate why would Kloppendinger even bother with a recount? They certainly aren’t going to make it up, even with the error received and proclaimed by the AP. To Dems the people’s votes don’t count, only the lawyers’ votes matter.
Keep in mind that this lady wanted to be a judge. Not even a semblance of impartiality. If she had been elected it would have been a licence for her to openly place politics before law. The four leftists on the USSC do the same, but at least they pretend to apply the law.
This is why, even with this significant lead, Republicans had better not rest easy and become complacent. They need to aggressively stay on the offensive and root out ALL voter fraud and irregularities in this election - and there will be much to expose. None of if had better be ignored.
LOL. Well, you know what Harry Truman said when a guy said “Give ‘em hell, Harry!”: “I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell!”
In a news conference held Thursday evening, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nicklaus announced new vote totals, which indicate that Prosser, thought to be sympathetic toward Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union legislation, received 92,263 votes on election night.JoAnne Kloppenburg, who received support from several unions during her campaign, received only 32,758 votes. But based on unofficial election results, Kloppenburg declared victory Wednesday, the day after the election.
http://inthearena.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/08/what-were-watching-friday-april-8-2011-midnight-budget-deadline-approaches-no-nato-apology-wisconsin-vote-counting/
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