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.
This may be an ‘intentional’ error. We’ll see.
“Press conference scheduled for forty-five minutes from now with the official announcement”...read it on HOTAIR...HOT DAMN!!!
>>>OH MY...IT IS TRUE!!!
Because HotAir said so?
I’d trust a more local source...
Heads exploding at DU. Blame Koch Brothers, Haliburton, etc.
As long as computers count the ballots, the left will win every time, like it does in Oregon and Washington States.
State Legislatures should pass laws that we go back to precinct polling places, and hand counted ballots the old fashioned way.
Computers are easily manipulated. If a Republican is ahead, the computers “break down”, and when they come back up, the Democrat is ahead! Happens every time!
So let’s see some good legislation concerning our voting process. Vote by mail is open to fraud, too.
WTH, a Tandy 1000???
As I've told people before, it is no longer, "Garbage In, Garbage Out." It is really "Garbage In, Gospel Out."
Nice.
The only thing to make this better would be finding out they intentionally held them back in order to let the rats fudge their numbers first.
If the is true, Klaptrap is done!
May be intentional shenanigans by the republicans. Maybe somebody found cajones and pulled a dem trick this time around.
All riiiight!
Private accounting firms are the answer, they put their reputations on the line, and if any fraud is found, it sinks the firm.
Dear God, let this be true.
Hmmmm...I’d like some math egghead to tally up the statistical probability that the number of ‘errors’ in vote counts in the past 10 years could all ‘accidentally’ favor Dems. That’s all I want for Christmas.
But keep in mind that there is a warehouse of ballots in Madison. I’m sure it’s guarded by rats. One can only hope there are some pubs on duty, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
Oh gosh, that would be sweeeeet!
I am happy for the citizens of Wisconsin. And it is disturbing in how many apparent glitches occurred in this voting.
But it has occurred to me that this might be a blessing in disguise. These numbers WEREN’T reported, so the dems DIDN’T KNOW HOW MUCH TO CHEAT. Was this on purpose? I don’t know. It is interesting to consider that if this hadn’t happened, would the dems won?
You know at this point...ANYTHING can be true...OUR WORLD as we once knew it has been turned upside down by the freakin liberals...SO your guess is better than mine, but that’s what been reported..MAYBE A MISTAKE..don’t know? Wait and see at the presser. Hopefully it will be good news.
Even the ghouls at the Democrat party cannot exhume THAT many dead people in time to make up the deficit.
But look for more evil Rats shenanigans!
My rather sizable gut tells me the Wisconsin GOP learned from the party’s “misfortunes” in other states’ recent elections and decided to come prepared for this one.
The Koch Bros. Model 2012
yep, but i’ll take it in this case. I find it hard to believe that she would have won by some 0.15% of the total vote in any case.
Are you a Florida gator living in Dallas? I’m a gator who just moved from Dallas.
LOL!!
Schadenfreude baby...
This is another reason that getting rid of the Electoral College is a bad, bad, BAD idea.
Imagine in a close national election having to go through each and every ballot in all 50 states.
Should we believe this ?
From your lips (fingertips) to God’s ears!
This sounds like some beautiful news!!!!!
All that work... all the bogus late-night vote totals oozing out of intentionally held-back precincts... all the out-of-state students and the fraudulent same-day registrations... the instant claim of victory as soon as the Rat pulls ahead... you mean all that was for nothing?
Heh heh heh.
Maybe you can teach an old party new tricks.
Woops, she’ll have to pay for the recount, herself.
Up go the union dues!
listen it might have been done on purpose, to take out dems cheating!
Awesome! CP-M running on twin floppies...;-)
Have you considered the possibility that she did this deliberately so the rats would have a false total to “fraud” to, then she comes in with, “Oh, gee, loollee here. I forgot to send this entire city in.” That would be a case of NOT committing fraud but beating the rats at their own game.
I don’t say this happened, but the one sure way to beat the rats without cheating/manufacturing votes is to sucker them into only manufacturing a certain number of votes that they think puts them over the top, and then giving up your REAL totals after the fact. LOL! I HOPE that’s what happened. :) About damn time!
And those darned things were heavy...
I’ll see your 204 votes and raise you 7,381...
Those communist fascist progressives are going to try to kill this country every which way they can. And getting rid of the electoral college is one of them. I blame the dumbed down parents and kids who are not taught the foundations of their own freedoms.
More and more of “majority rule” is nothing more than MOB rule.
This is bull$#it.
Voting machines should be able to give out receipts, like credit cards.
One copy for a box, for manual recounts and a second for the consumer, which could be duplicated and sent back ..even the odd ad hoc would discourage cheating.
I loved my Trash-80. 64 characters by 32 rows, cassette backup, 4KB memory. Woot!
I just love the stench of liberal desperation...
Here’s a post from Daily Kook’s:
“WTF is wrong with the people of Wisconsin?????
One might as well give them a loaded gun. After all, by supporting Walker and Prosser they’re still committing suicide, only more slowly.
This election should have been a landslide for Klopenburg.”
Gotta love it...
And they haven’t even got the latest posted yet.
I'm for drawing and quartering for that offense but that may actually be unconstitutional.
that’s why it’s always best to report your votes second, not first......
The libs are going to do a Fukashima and melt down all over the place...their little ANTI WALKER revolution just hit the skidzzzzzzz!
The libs are going to do a Fukashima and melt down all over the place...their little ANTI WALKER revolution just hit the skidzzzzzzz!
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