does the silly fat cow really think they can claim they just found 7500 votes this late in the game???
Posted on 05/17/2011 12:19:57 PM PDT by Jean S
The Journal Sentinel Editorial Board is entitled to its own opinions but it is not entitled to its own facts. The board's speculation about my motives regarding the recount of the vote in the Supreme Court election is inaccurate. I appreciate this opportunity to set the record straight.
The recount process in Wisconsin is unfolding as prescribed by Wisconsin law. Votes are recounted in all 72 counties, and an official record is made of that process. When the Editorial Board says the recount is a "mere preamble to the court challenge," it is wrong on the facts and wrong to prejudge my intentions.
Wisconsin law specifically anticipates that there may be court challenges to the recount, but those challenges can only happen after the recount is done. The recount is not "merely" a preamble to anything: It is a process that proceeds in prescribed ways when an election is this close.
As I and my campaign have said repeatedly and consistently, I have not made the decision about whether to request judicial review. Once the recount is done and the record is complete, my attorneys and I will carefully review the evidence in that record and I will make a considered judgment based on the law and the facts. The Editorial Board has no evidence other than politically motivated claims by my opponent and his supporters on which to base its statement that "it appears" I will challenge the recount in court.
And, finally, it is the height of cynicism and the worst of politics as usual to undermine the rationale for, and benefits of, this recount in order to try to score political points as Justice David Prosser's campaign continues to do. When races are this close, there is a significant public interest established both by statute and by common sense in determining that votes were counted and counted accurately.
The recount has uncovered significant and widespread errors and anomalies in the securing of ballots and recording of votes on election day. There have been changes to vote totals in every county due to miscounted or missing votes.
Many bags of ballots have been found to be essentially unsealed or ripped to the extent that ballot security is compromised. A stack of ballots, unbagged, was found in a clerk's office. Ballots were found in voting machines where they had been left. Seal numbers on ballot bags and tags were not recorded in the inspector's reports, creating doubt that the bags were properly sealed on election night.
Touchscreen voting machine tapes were missing votes, or worse, were entirely blank and had to be reproduced from machine memory to allow a recount of the vote.
The most widespread and systemic errors and anomalies have been discovered in Waukesha County. That county was already under a cloud, and this recount has revealed more questions about elections practices there.
This election was close, and there were many who have expressed doubts about whether it was clean. The right to vote is fundamental. It is a right that courageous people fight and die for every day. In America, that right carries with it a promise: that elections are fair and open, that election results are untainted by deceit or fraud and that the electoral process provides every eligible voter with an equal opportunity to privately and independently cast a ballot.
In order to make that promise real, there are appropriate and established steps that help make sure the outcome of elections, when in doubt, can withstand scrutiny. That, no more and no less, is exactly why this recount is so important.
JoAnne Kloppenburg is an assistant attorney general who ran against Justice David Prosser in April.
You’re almost correct, she was up by 204 votes.
The GAB is meeting today...
http://gab.wi.gov/about/meetings/2011/may
I imagine that will be quite an event, particularly if the Kloppy loons show up.
LLS
>These idiots have shown themselves to be armature’s
Well they certainly do a lot of spinning. ;-)
Democrats exploiting human frailty and failings??
Oh say it ain’t so....
:^)
Re-Count God???? Bush won that election. The recounts were an attempt by a Dem to steal the election. As a matter of fact, every re-count I can think of consisted of a Dem attempting (and often succeeding in) stealing an election. If there is a “re-count God” then he is a Dem.
It's easy to understand their mindset: Winning is the only thing!
What is hard to accept is that they have no shame about it, and yet think they are on the moral high ground.
does the silly fat cow really think they can claim they just found 7500 votes this late in the game???
She won’t claim found votes, instead she is going to attempt to get thousands of Waukesha county votes disallowed. It won’t work but she may be able to keep Prosser from being seated on Aug. 1. If she can delay long enough the court will be 6-6 and they will bump the hearing of Walker’s budget repair bill back to the liberal Dane county courts. That has been their plan all along.
thx... what a miserable wretch
Is this “woman” married or has a “partner”? I am surprised someone hasn’t told her to fade in to well-deserved obscurity before every other species knows that she is a loon and asshat moonbat.
she should be drummed out of being a lawyer.
her ilk have no place on the bench or the bar.
To purge the democrats we have to win the children.
this takes mothers and fathers.
the village is the enemy.
Amen!!!!!
LLS
When she was 200+ votes ahead, she declared victory. She asked Prosser’s camp to concede, to spare the state going through a recount, since it was clear that 200+ was enough of a margin not to be overturned in a recount. But when she ended up 7,000+votes behind, that’s when we need recounts and investigations into how ballots are handled and all that. None of that was needed when one candidate has a 200+ vote margin, but all of that is needed when the spread is 7,000+ votes. I don’t understand the liberal mind, and liberal lack of consistency in positions taken. I probably never will.Read, or re-read, Orwell's 1984. It's the greatest book on politics ever written and gives a perfect model for "the liberal mind".
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