County clerks prepare for recount (WI)

Milieuee Journal-Sentinel ^ | 11/29/16 | Meg Jones

[randita]

Clerks in Wisconsin's 72 counties scrambled on Monday to handle the logistics of recounting nearly 3 million votes cast for president.

They were busy hiring and scheduling people to do the recount, figuring out where recounts will be held and arranging for security since the ballots must be secured 24 hours a day during the recount.

"We're trying to figure out all the logistics. How many people we'll need. How many tables and chairs. How many machines," Milwaukee County Clerk Joseph J. Czarnezki said Monday afternoon.

Sheboygan County Clerk Jon Dolson was elected four years ago and has never handled a recount. On Monday, he was reviewing notes from his predecessor following the last statewide recount, the Supreme Court election in 2011. Six people handled that recount in Sheboygan County. But now recount workers in Sheboygan County will have to count more than 58,000 presidential ballots cast in the county.

"I'm thinking maybe six or eight (workers) because it seems to be a shortened window" to complete the recount, said Dolson, adding that he'll probably hire poll workers because "you don't have to retrain them to work with tabulating machines."

Meanwhile, clerk's offices throughout the state will continue to issue marriage licenses, accept passport applications, sell hunting licenses and handle county board proceedings among other duties. By noon on Monday clerks had to submit an estimate of the cost to perform a recount in their counties.

Shawano County Clerk Pamela Schmidt will use the county's board of canvassers and call in additional poll workers who worked the presidential election. The county has a mix of hand ballots, touch screens and optical scanners to recount. She's tentatively scheduling her workers for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. shifts including Saturdays.

[pfflier]

Would they go through the trouble if they had not have the means and ability to corrupt the vote count?

Precisely. Don't underestimate these a--holes. Their ducks are lined up or they wouldn't be pursuing this.

[bikerman]

Hanging Chads coming to a county near you.

[Secret Agent Man]

if a whole’bunch of ballots is found theyare not just’going to be added in. especially if they are filled’,out certain ways.

[Secret Agent Man]

it’is’im,possible.

for all the votes found to go to just one candidate, is statistically impossible. it would be massive evidence of vote fraud by the democrats.

[Secret Agent Man]

it was wired in today.

of course they broke election law to let her pay a few days after filing the recount petition. ghat alone should fire everyone in dane county elections board. jail time as well as it broke federal law as well as state law.

[Ingtar]

It sounds like some areas are planning manual recounts when all they are required to do is hit the count button again.

[uncbob]

Don’t be surprised if they contest and appeal every decision that they lose
all the way to a now corrupt SCOTUS

[pfflier]

I said in a few posts yesterday, we need to watch the 7th circuit court of appeals. With a tied SCOTUS ideologically, the lower court ruling could stand.