Wisconsin Republicans seek issues they can raise in a recount, but no major problems have surfaced

Milwaukee Journal ^ | November 10, 2020 | Patrick Marley

[PBRCat]

As Republicans pursue a longshot chance of overturning the presidential results in Wisconsin, they’re focused on absentee voters' addresses, the state’s residency requirement and a flash drive that was briefly left in a counting machine.

With a lead of more than 20,000 votes by President-elect Joe Biden, Republicans would need to find something momentous to shift the state’s results to President Donald Trump.

And in the unlikely scenario that Biden loses Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes, he could still claim the presidency because of other states.

Wisconsin Republicans are scrambling to find issues they can raise in the recount Trump has promised to pursue.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, on Friday directed a committee to review the election results, saying he wanted it to determine whether there were any irregularities.

Republicans have raised concerns about instances in which clerks filled in the addresses of witnesses on absentee ballot envelopes.

Absentee voters in Wisconsin place their ballots in envelopes that they must sign before returning them to local election officials. They must also have a witness sign the envelope and provide his or her address.

If the voter’s signature, the witness’ signature or the witness’ address is missing, the vote won’t count.

Before the election, clerks contacted voters if they identified problems with the envelopes so they could fix them.

The state Elections Commission told clerks they could add the witness’ address if they were able to determine what it was.

Former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman and some Republicans contend the witness — not the clerk — is the one who is supposed to fill out the address information.

“The one meaningful path that the president would have in Wisconsin would be to challenge the I believe illegal clerks writing in the addresses for the absentee voters’ witnesses,” Gableman said.

[sipster]

There is no automatic recount law in Wisconsin.

[A Voice]

These people have no shame.

[null and void]

Republicans do NOT want to be in power, they want all the perks, but none of the blame.

Second fiddle suits them just fine.

[Deo et patriae]

Milwaukee Journal???

Is it a right wing or a left wing publication?

[null and void]

I've added a few bullets to this today...

Nully's modest proposal to end voter and election fraud:

• Paper ballots (zeugma adds) with human readable marks. They may be computer generated, and/or computer counted, but there must be an audit trail of each vote. H/T zeugma
• All systems using computerized counting must have open source software, two fully separate and independent companies provide redundant, crowd source vetted, software. Counting is done on two separate systems and cross-checked.
• Manual counting and loading paper ballots into counting machines must be live streamed from multiple cameras, with interlocking fields of view, on independent connections.
• Purple fingers (needs something to prevent an absentee voter/early voter from re-voting at the poll, maybe blockchain, also maybe a mugshot showing the voter an the photo ID taken at sign in?) H/T for-q-clinton
• Mandatory free on demand BIOMETRIC (iris scan, nobody ever left their irises at a crime scene!) photo voter ID card, with a database that instantly flags for arrest anyone seeking multiple IDs. Change of name or address? Simply have your old card voided when you apply for the new one.
• No precinct reports their totals until ALL precincts report they have totals. This prevents the last-to-report precinct captains from knowing how much to fudge a report to give a win to their preferred candidate while maintaining some slight semblance of credibility.
• Repeal Motor Voter.
• End same-day registration where it exists, and allow ample time between registration and election for vetting of credentials of registrants.
• Instantly deport any non-citizen who registers to vote. Permanently ban from re-entry any non-citizen who actually votes.
• Put a little ⩍ next to the names of those registered voters with death certificates, and detain and put a 72 hour psychiatric hold on anyone claiming to be a dead person...
• With the exception of absentee ballots, end early voting. Every voter deserves and has a responsibility to know the latest information before they cast their ballots. H/T WildHighlander57
• Absentee ballots must be vetted and counted 10 days before the polling date, with the results secured until the date of the vote. H/T octex
• All voter rolls are automatically and completely purged ten days after the Presidential Inauguration. Reregistering to vote every four years is not an imposition. H/T The Chid

Mexico has voter ID cards required to vote, and when you vote, they punch a hole in your card to prevent multiple votes in the same election.

I don't know if you get a 10% discount after you've accumulated enough punched holes…

Of course, all this would only apply to Federal elections, for federal offices, as that is the legitimate concern of the federal government.

Let the states who have local authority use whatever system they wish to force the elections of their favorite sons and daughters to alderman, mayor or goobernor. They can do it the cheap way, by just following the federal rules for all voting, or they can have separate ballots for local and federal. Their call. It's a free country, ain't it?

[kiryandil]

Lefties.

[grey_whiskers]

#ICYMI: Top Election Chief of #Milwaukee, #Wisconsin CAUGHT on camera illegally tabulating 169,000 mail-in ballots; without observers, breaking the Legal Chain of Custody:#Elections2020 #Election2020 #ElectionResults2020 #Elections #Trump #MAGA @TeamTrump @GOP @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/Hv9P2Y1UVF— Michael Johns (@Michael03272961) November 10, 2020

[kiryandil]

Wait'll they get a load of us conservatives voting Democrat in 2022 to burn down the Republican Party that didn't support President Trump.

Let's see what the surrenderPubbies do when 15% of their base disappears from their vote totals.

[null and void]

Ok, it will turn the election, but it will lead to civil war if we overturn, so suck it up, Trumpies!

Oh? like there won't be a civil war if we let the liberals destroy every one of our freedoms and every one of our jobs?

I don't think sticks and stones agains A-10s and Abrams M1A2s is the way we want to set the battlefield...

[Zack Attack]

Yes, I thought they had found 9000 votes for Biden meant for Trump which would cut the lead to 1500 or so?

Here it is on Eric’s tweet - of course Twitter says its disputed.

https://twitter.com/erictrump/status/1326017351960174592?s=21

[Pollard]

From the leftist article itself

“”” If the margin of about 0.6 percentage points holds, Trump would be granted a recount, but his campaign would have to pay in advance to cover the cost of it. A statewide recount would cost millions of dollars, but Trump could try to limit the costs by conducting a recount only in certain places, such as Milwaukee County. “””

[Vaduz]

No major problems have surfaced and if they do your sure as hell are not going to know about it.
Big Brother Inc.

[ml/nj]

but no major problems have surfaced

No?

Then WTF is this:

This is the Wisconsin vote counting history log. Again, on the Y axis we have the ratio of D to R ballots in reporting batch, and on the X axis we have reporting time. Around 4am there, there is a marked shift in the ratio of D to R mail-in ballots. Based on other posts in this thread, this should not happen. This is an anomaly, and while anomalies are not always fraud, often they may point to fraud.

By 4am the D to R ratio was all thrown out of whack. That is because these ballots were not sampled from the real Wisconsin voter population, and they were not randomized in the mail sorting system with the other ballots. They inherently have a different D to R signature than the rest of the ballots quite possibly bc additional ballots were added to the batch, either through backdating or ballot manufacturing or software tampering. This of this being kind of analogous to carbon-14 dating, but for ballot batch authenticity.

source: trulytimes.com/it-defies-logic-scientist-finds-telltale-signs-of-election-fraud-after-analyzing-mail-in-ballot-data.html

ML/NJ

[null and void]

Unlikely conservatives will vote democrat.

Maybe 15-20% will vote third party or "none of these candidates", where the option is available.

Or even more likely just stay home.

Unless, maybe... Trump runs as a Bull in a China Shop Party candidate?

(Apologies to TR)

[sipster]

As I said, there is no automatic recount law in Wisconsin.

If the margin in less than 1%, either side may request a recount. If the margin is greater than 0.25% then the requestor must pay the costs of the recount.

Some states have laws where recounts occur automatically if the margin is below a certain percentage. Wisconsin does not.

[Dick Bachert]

BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID!
Know what scares me more than the Democrat’s effort to steal ANOTHER in a long string of elections?
That around 40%+ of those we encounter each day are NOT OFFENDED AND ANGRY ABOUT IT and MOST ACTUALLY APPLAUD THEIR CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR!
The soul of a nation lies in the hearts of the citizens.
Even if this CRIME is resolved in Trump’s favor (and it WILL BE!), FOLKS, WE’RE STILL IN BIG TROUBLE (AS IN “CIVIL WAR” INITIATED BY THE SAME ANTIFA/BLM MORONS WHO BURN, BEAT & KILL)!
HITLER’S BROWN SHIRTS COME TO MIND and I wonder if concern for their PERSONAL SAFETY is what’s keeping some folks from PUBLICLY resisting the IN-YOUR-FACE CRIMINALITY OF THE LEFT?

[Secret Agent Man]

the 103000 4am vote dump spike for biden, for one

[kiryandil]

I've voted for the scumPublicans for the last 28 years straight [Perot in 1992].

If they cut and run from this battlefield [legitimate elections] and stab President Trump in the back on their way to skulk in the woods till next election, I'm gonna stick the knife in ALL THE WAY.

Not just #SitTheVoteOut2022.

Since the DemoCommies are going to cheat in every race that matters anyway, with complete aircover from their Media, might as well bayonet the Pubbies before we deal with the REAL problem.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Recounting is not the right issue. Recanvassing is the issue. But the Party of Stupid has already ceded that argument.

[kiryandil]

Remember the story about the Wisconsin Republicans getting hit by hackers?  

Wisconsin GOP says hackers stole $2.3 million intended for Trump reelection effort
10/30/2020
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3900021/posts