Posted on 04/07/2011 3:15:35 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Supreme Court justice David Prosser has picked up more than 7,381 votes in Waukesha County, a conservative county outside of Milwaukee, as part of the statewide canvass following the election for Supreme Court on Tuesday. The total gives Prosser a comfortable lead as the canvass continues Friday.
The error came when Waukesha County clerk Kathy Nickolaus failed to save some 14,000 votes that came from wards in Brookfield before passing the vote total along to the Associated Press. County officials discovered the mistake Wednesday and shared the information with state election officials on Thursday. Prosser won Waukesha County with more than 70 percent of the vote there.
Wisconsin sources say that the paper trail on the votes will be obvious and difficult for anyone to dispute. Either votes from Brookfield were counted in the initial tally or they weren’t. Still, the discovery of the extra votes is sure to stoke the embers of the heated battles that have taken place across the state over the past two months, particularly because Nickolaus, the woman at the center of the controversy, is a Republican activist. A posting on the website of the Republican Women of Waukesha County indicates that Kathy Nickolaus recently served as president of that group.
But several sources have pointed to questions about her competence in the past. In August, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that her superiors “ordered an audit of the county clerk's election equipment and system beginning with the September primary despite several memos she sent to the committee over the weekend defending her practices and resisting the move.”
Yes! AMEN!
Looks well beyond any margin of last-minute cheating by the Dems.
I never thought to sign up with the commie Moveon.org for a laugh. Thanks for the tip.
Oh man, to be a fly on the wall...
*SNORT*
Busted!!!
Glad these votes came to light for the sake of Wisconsin’s future!
All celebrations aside for a moment, this is very shoddy handling of votes/computer programs etc. This woman should be scrutinized and if poor procedures are found, she should be appropriately disciplined.
We aren’t cheating; we seldom do. Make every election on-board honest and we win in nearly every state.
You are barred from proclaiming this to be a Republican Victory!
Nice sentiments but you do know that we cannot maintain a completely ‘fair’ election across the entire country. It is impossible because they don’t work (Democrats) they get paid to produce votes, period.
I just noticed your comment over at YouTube. FAIL. LOL. Good one!
You have to go now.
So when will this be over? Prosser is winning now? I read the other day that if it is a 7000 difference the candidate requesting has to pay for a re count.
I remember when I was a little kid and some of the precincts in the GOP-leaning Chicago suburbs would hold off reporting their tallies so that the slime in the city wouldn’t know how many votes they’d have to manufacture for the Dem candidate.
Seldom worked, though - the Chicago precincts would just hold out longer, and (mirabile dictu), somehow there’d almost always be enough votes to push through the donkey in any close race.
Heh heh, I couldn’t resist.
“There should be precinct-by-precinct results from the election in that county. It would be easy to verify whether the original AP/county count squares with the precinct results”.
Though not official...
http://brookfield-wi.patch.com/articles/brookfield-gives-prosser-nearly-11k-votes
Yes amen and thank you Lord for your grace in this matter. We will continue to work to save our country from the moochers and looters. In Your Holy Name, Amen!
Holy crap; did we just cheat?? /s
She seems to have been doing things properly (albeit slowly), but the AP was the one that seized on the unofficial vote total and proclaimed Kloppenburg to be the winner. Unofficial means unofficial, and even at that time it was known that the thousands of votes from Waukeesha were still outstanding.
I understand. But if common-sense voter laws were put into place, instead of the loosey-goosey mess that rules in most areas, much of the fraud could be averted. For example, Leftists absolutely screech bloody murder whenever a state enacts a voter I.D. law.
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