On Prosser's Huge New Waukesha County Vote Total...
I won't be like those whiney righties who started yelling "voter fraud" late Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning - - I myself heard the accounts of voter fraud alleged here on Vicki McKenna's AM 1130 WISN show - - but I will say, how is this even possible? Wouldn't the Waukesha County Clerk have known something was wrong with the totals she was getting almost 48 hours ago? Is there a word for "uberincompetence?"
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Maybe she read this:
http://fairlyconservative.com/2011/04/06/prosser-lost-the-election-in-waukesha-county/
GoyitoMKE
I believe Scott Walker's hero is George Walker Bush. Welcome, quite possibly I think, to Wisconsin's version of "Florida 2000."
AP knows something if they have a minute by minute view of the vote count that they had Tuesday night. Tues night AP kept reporting 20 0r 30 wards in Waukesha County were not reporting. Then suddenly all wards were reporting and the vote total did not change.
The vice chair of the Democratic Party of Waukesha was there for the whole process. An honest mistake, but it was caught and corrected. The fact it happened in such a high profile race will just put Kathy under a micro-scope.
Wait for the personal attacks to begin...
We learned how to swing elections from Al Franken.
honest mistake...Wait for the personal attacks to begin
It may not be fraud, but I wouldn't characterize blowing off recommendations that the system not be based around her rickety personal computer and low-watt brain with a smirk as "honest."
Prosser campaign manager was optimistic on Wednesday that an "unrecognized opportunity" would mean victory for Prosser. Was this the creative counting uppitywis.org warned us about? Things that make you go, "Hmmm..."
http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/early-warning-creative-counting-ahead
Elle in MI
Has anyone seen my hanging chads?
Nickolaus needs to to be put under a microscope. Since her tenure began, in nearly every election--low turnout or high--Waukesha County final voting tallies have been consistently late compared to other counties. There have been other anomalies: candidates told they had won, only to find out they had lost (Bill Kramer v Chris Lufter for Assembly, 2006 fall primary).
Voters calling the Clerk's office for information on vote tallies were asked who they were and/or why they were calling.
Somehow or other, elections always seem to turn out the way the county GOP wants them to go.
When asked questions, Nickolaus becomes defensive and smug. She seems always to respond with a handy answer that lays the blame on one of the reporting municipalities or somewhere else. To see her take responsibility--sort of--tonight was a rarity. And then she did blame it on high turnout. News flash: Waukesha County in general has a higher turnout by percentage of voting eligible population. To compare previous spring election turnouts of 23% to the April 5th turnout of either 42 or 49% is ridiculous. EVERYONE knew it would be high.
And even though it was high, and she missed 14,000 + votes from one entire municipality, it still took half the night to report the final numbers.
She's a personal and professional disgrace, no matter what party you are in: if you're a Repub, she's unnecessarily undermined the credibility of results in a race that Prosser would have otherwise easily and unquestionably won; she's opened a huge trust rift in the fairness and justice of the electoral process; if you're a Dem, now you're sure there is something fraudulent about the electoral process in Waukesha.
This is what happens when you have such a partisan in what is supposed to be a non-partisan role, i.e., Prosser, Gableman, Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Lloyd Carter, Mark Gundrum, etc.
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