Posted on 04/07/2011 2:47:44 PM PDT by dep
After Tuesday night’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election, a computer error in heavily Republican Waukesha County failed to send election results for the entire City of Brookfield to the Associated Press. The error, revealed today, would give incumbent Supreme Court Justice David Prosser a net 7,381 votes against his challenger, attorney Joanne Kloppenburg. On Wednesday, Kloppenburg declared victory after the AP reported she finished the election with a 204-vote lead, out of nearly 1.5 million votes cast.
On election night, AP results showed a turnout of 110,000 voters in Waukesha County — well short of the 180,000 voters that turned out last November, and 42 percent of the county’s total turnout. By comparison, nearly 90 percent of Dane County voters who cast a ballot in November turned out to vote for Kloppenburg.
Prior to the election, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus was heavily criticized for her decision to keep the county results on an antiquated personal computer, rather than upgrade to a new data system being utilized statewide. Nickolaus cited security concerns for keeping the data herself — yet when she reported the data, it did not include the City of Brookfield, whose residents cast nearly 14,000 votes.
Throughout the day Thursday, official canvass numbers flipped the lead back and forth between Prosser and Kloppenburg. While many believed a recount was inevitable, the addition of the Brookfield votes for Prosser could push the justice’s lead beyond the legal threshold that would trigger an automatic recount. Under state law, Kloppenburg could still ask for a recount up to three days after the official canvass, but would have to pay for it herself.
More details as they become available.
Had some training a couple of days ago where we saw a picture of one of the old tube box design TV sets. You know the one that took two people to adjust the vertical/horizontal hold? They were “it” back in the day.
Ah, the Osborne-1. A classic in its day (which I think was September 31, 1980 BC). Best use of the left and right arrow keys ever!
Yes, Bridgeport Connecticut had a “computer snafu” in 2010 that allowed photocopies of ballots to give us our pro-union, liberal democrat governor who pledges to “tax the rich”.
Just saw this on facebook. Great news. and incredible incompetence.
“The union members in WI are fascists. They do not believe in the rule of law.”
Beginning to look that way. Fascists will understand the rule of the bayonet.
A brilliant strategy!
The Dems thought they had to come up with only a couple of hundred dead voters...but 7000 of them is beyond the power of even a Dem fraudster.
Prossner to gain 10,859 votes, Kloppenburg to gain 3,456 from Brookfield City. READ’EM AND WEEP OF HAPPINESS!!!
will the AP like their crow fried or roasted or just raw?
Don’t forget folks, the left are masters at last minute vote finding.
well, bret baer just announced it on special report.
and the author is certainly legitimate.
Is that a TRS-80? Oh, to be learning Basic on one of those again.
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“Brookfield City Clerk Kris Schmidt said she sent her numbers to the county clerk’s office Tuesday night that showed David Prosser with 10,859 votes and JoAnne Kloppenburg with 3,456. She said those numbers did not change in the postmortem she did after the election.”
“I have no clue what’s going on. she said. “No one has officially told me what’s going on.”
Bon appetit!
Leni
Some enterprising Repub held down the votes for Prosser to fake out the Rats vis a vis the numbers to cheat with and then ....heh heh heh...
Well, it would be nice for once.
Sounds like the perfect play by the republicans. Use an entire town as a hole card, let the rats play their hand and bingo! spring the trap shut.
Beautiful. Anybody who needs and explanation of why this was done only needs to look at the history of rat vote fraud to figure it out.
It’s not cheating if it’s just a computer error. I’m surprised the rats didn’t figure out that a whole city was missing from the count. I guess in their excitement to manufacture votes they overlooked this one, vital little pile of votes.
Bravo...
Of course you could just not release any results until all of the counting is done, so there would be no way to know how many votes need to be made up.
it’s not an official wisconsin election thread until a couple of people eat up the bandwidth arguing about what sean hannity was doing for a living 20 years ago. old computer discussions are a good try, but lack the ring of authenticity that a pointless argument about hannity carries.
You are good telebob... I am not a card player, but man I’d loose my shirt playing poker with you! Bravo on the analysis. I will remember it should I volunteer @ a higher level in the future...
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