As Prosser Wins, the Dems Get the Blame for Wisconsin

Pajamas Media ^ | April 16, 2011 | Mchael Thielen

[Kaslin]

There as elsewhere, incompetence serves liberal interests.

Now that Wisconsin’s recent judicial election has at long last been settled in Prosser’s favor, there is no doubt who is really to blame for the problems that resulted in erroneous reporting which gave a narrow lead for the defeated liberal candidate. In the only truly non-partisan, non-ideological study of its kind, a special task force of the Milwaukee Police Department concluded that massive fraud and incompetence existed in Wisconsin’s election system. Republicans were eager to reform the system, but most Democrats refused to even discuss it. Despite the Democrats’ failure to act, no Democrat or liberal ever refuted the substance of the study, nor did they make any effort even to address the incompetence issue.

Why would the Democrats want to allow the incompetence in the system to stand? A cynic would say it would allow fraud to continue. In the police study, the police task force found that 16 staffers for the Democrat presidential campaign and a liberal allied group committed felony vote fraud and engaged in an “illegal organized attempt to influence the outcome of an election in the state of Wisconsin.”

Yet not one was prosecuted.

Prosecutors concluded that prosecution was impossible because

[b]ased on the investigation to date, the task force has found widespread record keeping failures and separate areas of voter fraud. These findings impact each other. Simply put: it is hard to prove a bank embezzlement if the bank cannot tell how much money was there in the first place. Without accurate records, the task force will have difficulty proving criminal conduct beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

In essence, because of the high level of incompetence in Wisconsin’s election administration, prosecuting those who committed “multiple felonies” of vote fraud was impossible.

Wisconsin Democrats could have joined with Republicans to ensure that elections are more open, fair, and honest, but Democrats opposed transparency and favored systems that encourage fraud like “Same Day Registration,” which employs tactics like vouching for votes. This encourages incompetence, making record keeping difficult and committing fraud easy. If Democrats had worked with Republicans to reform the system, then the April 5 Supreme Court election would have undoubtedly been over on election night.

Ironically, Democrats who have failed to address vote fraud and election administration incompetence are now crying foul. If the Democrats want to stick to facts, there is no evidence that any fraud was committed in Waukesha County, the center of the controversy. Experts for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and even the liberal New York Times have concluded that it was a matter of incompetence in reporting, not fraud in voting, that resulted in the 7,500 vote error.

Of course, a more open election system would have forced the Republican election official to report totals on a city basis, which would have prevented this problem.

Yet, if you had to impose such requirements on Republican counties, you would also have to do the same in Democrat counties, which would likely present the Democrats with some other problems as suspicious vote totals were detected in the Democratic stronghold of Dane County. While Waukesha current vote totals are in line with models, in some precincts in ultra-liberal Madison as many as 40% of voters only voted for judge — an extremely high number that is not seen even in voting for president. Were some of these “voters” the same type of out of state activists detailed by the aforementioned police report that illegally voted in 2004? After all, the police concluded that possibly “thousands” of activists illegally voted that time. This time, we know that many non-Wisconsin-resident, Democrat, union, and liberal activists were working in Madison to overthrow Governor Walker’s agenda, which they failed to do through protests and intimidation. Did these out-of-staters vote in the judicial election illegally? Or do many Madison cheeseheads, unlike every other place in Wisconsin and America, only care about who serves on their Supreme Court?

Speaking of intimidation, one of the victims of this debacle is 80-year-old Romana Kitzinger, the Democrat official who strongly stood behind the corrected vote total in a press conference after the election. ”We went over everything and made sure all the numbers jibed up and they did,” she said. “I’m not going to stand here and tell you something that’s not true.” But now it seems Romana has been pressured into partially recanting — and, while not talking to the press anymore, issuing a statement with the help of the Democrat Party.

A more open and transparent process would have stopped the problems in Waukesha, but it would also make intimidation and fraud more difficult. Will Democrats work to end incompetence and fraud plaguing voting systems like Wisconsin’s? Until they do, the conclusion of one of those investigator police officers of that famous Milwaukee report will still be valid: “I know I voted in the Election, but I can’t be certain it counted.”

[FlingWingFlyer]

Unions are on their way out. The commie union thugs are going to have to try to find REAL jobs now. Their freeloading days are over. TIME TO GO TO WORK SKIPPY!!!

[Westbrook]

> I know I voted in the Election, but I can’t be certain it counted

“It’s not who casts the votes that matters, but who counts them.”
~ Josef Stalin, hero of the Democrat Party

[evad]

Hoisted by their own petard

Meaning: Injured by the device that you intended to use to injure others.

[Paine in the Neck]

I said at the time of the Florida debacle that we’ll never get the vote fraud mess cleaned up until the ‘rats percieve their ox as being gored. WI may be a twofer in having Prosser win and having the reporting ‘glitch’ short-circuit the ‘rats’ after-the-polls-close vote manufacturing mechanism, leaving them with no position but to cry “vote fraud”.

[muawiyah]

Sure looks like standard issue Democrat incompetence has forced the Republicans' hands.

Now they'll have to use their Legislative majorities to prepare legislation to FIX the problem.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

With Republicans controlling the Legislature and Governors office, now is the time for Wisconsin to overhaul its’ election laws to include requiring voter ID and eliminating same day vote/registration.

[Kaslin]

Exactly

[Haiku Guy]

I gotta think that town was held back to trump the Democrat vote-rigging schemes. You knew, regardless of the actual vote, the ‘Rats were going tho be up by a few hundred votes at the end of the night. It’s the way they roll. So the ‘Pubbies held seven thousand real votes back, to overcome whatever shenanigans the Democrats came up with. And now all the ‘Rats can do is whine that because of Republican dirty tricks, they turned off their fraudulent vote creation machine too early, so they lost.

Does anybody doubt that if the ‘Rats thought they needed them, they could have ‘ginned up another 7000 votes on Election Night?

[Vinnie]

I gotta think that town was held back to trump the Democrat vote-rigging schemes. You knew, regardless of the actual vote, the ‘Rats were going tho be up by a few hundred votes at the end of the night.

I believe it was 240 votes. And the winning dim exclaimed she thought Prosser shouldn't contest the election.

I think you're right. The dims manage to find just enough votes to win. And when they realize their fraud wasn't quite enough they scream.
I love it :)

[PapaBear3625]

Wisconsin Republicans need to, at minimum, pass Voter ID within the next couple of weeks. They need to overhaul the voting system to make fraud more difficult to perform, and easier to prosecute.

And they need to do this WELL BEFORE the recall elections can take place, so that any challenges can be resolved before 2012, because we know that Dems will engage in massive fraud in 2012 wherever they can get away with it, rather than lose power.

[Senator John Blutarski]

“[b]ased on the investigation to date, the task force has found widespread record keeping failures and separate areas of voter fraud. These findings impact each other. Simply put: it is hard to prove a bank embezzlement if the bank cannot tell how much money was there in the first place. Without accurate records, the task force will have difficulty proving criminal conduct beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.”

..... I wonder if the “prosecutors” would take the same point of view if, for example, the issue were posited thusly:

“We caught these individuals red-handed in a massive counterfeiting operation, but because it is impossible to determine exactly how much real currency is in circulation on any given day, the state will have difficulty proving criminal conduct beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.”

I don’t think so.

[BobL]

“You knew, regardless of the actual vote, the ‘Rats were going tho be up by a few hundred votes at the end of the night.”

I think you were right. By holding back the votes, the Dems no longer had a chance to change the ‘outcomes’ in their districts, and couldn’t counterbalance the 7,000. They were beat.

[txhurl]

Because they were relying on AP totals, right?

I haven’t heard a word about the AP’s involvement since the first day.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“WI may be a twofer in having Prosser win and having the reporting ‘glitch’ short-circuit the ‘rats’ after-the-polls-close vote manufacturing mechanism, leaving them with no position but to cry “vote fraud”.”

This, “let's see how many votes we are going to need before we start ‘finding’ them” approach is a recurrent democrat technique to steal elections. It cannot be allowed to stand. There are many mechanisms that could be put in place to prevent this, including having each vote go through two simultaneous separate and sequestered counts, and then matching these up.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Does anybody doubt that if the ‘Rats thought they needed them, they could have ‘ginned up another 7000 votes on Election Night?”

I certainly don’t doubt it.

[bk1000]

I recall that people who really couldn’t hold a private
sector job ended up working for the govt, and ended up with
ittle work to do and a pretty good salary package. Not
saying all govt workers are like this by any means, but I have no doubt whatsoever that incompetence abounds in govt.
As seniority rules (its only fair, you know), those incompetent long-timers have now reached positions of authority throughout the various departments of govt. Corruption is inevitable.

[blueunicorn6]

They’re already voting in Chicago.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

And now all the ‘Rats can do is whine that because of Republican dirty tricks, they turned off their fraudulent vote creation machine too early, so they lost.

[pabianice]

Kloppenburg refuses to concede -- what a graceless liberal witch