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.
Just heard this on Vicki McKenna’s show - breaking now!
No matter how things turn, it already bothers me how many errors have already been uncovered. It doesn’t give me much faith in our voting system.
Time to bus in union thugs to make up the 7000...
I HOPE YOU AIN’T KIDDING!!! Be still my heart!
Oh My! That’s droppin’ a big stink bomb in the liberal compound. (not that anyone would notice anyway..)
Be still, my heart! This is GREAT news.
Last night on the drive home, the f*@&ing news reader on WMAL (ABC) read the headline of "voters give Scott Walker a strong rebuke" or something like that. I wanted to chuck my radio out on the parkway.
April Fools!
Wow! I hope this is true!
THESE “COMPUTER ERRORS” GOTTA BE STOPPED!!!!!!
Is Prosser a Good Guy?
unbelievable the incompetent hands in which rests our future
Time for 9000 Dumklopp votes to be found in a UW-Madison alley, stored in the back of a van.
Not a problem. The unions will pick up the tab.
Although I'm glad Prosser is ahead, I am concerned about how this type of sloppy mistake can be made. We wouldn't accept this type of error from a two branch library system, but these seemingly random numbers are a common occurrence in our electoral system in far too many elections and it gives a huge opening for the creative counters in the Democrat party to steal elections.
Election tampering should be punished with Capital Punishment!
Too many have given thehir lives for this nonsense!
if anyone actually wants a verifiable, privacy insured, tamper-proof, voting system... just let me know
yes.. i won’t be holding my breath
“Must have been union computer operators...”
This or other human intervention MUST be identified!
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