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.”
Doctor Feelgood to DU for thorazine injection, stat!
I agree. This BS has gone on long enough.....I give you al franken.
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I think we need to get rid of announcing unofficial results, and just have one announcement with the final tally once the State makes it official. Then it would be impossible to determine how many votes need to be manufactured.
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I don’t think announcing unofficial results can be prevented. Besides, it was the idiot leftist candidate who made things worse by prematurely declaring victory within hours after she was shown with a razor thin 200 vote lead.
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Fortunately we still hold a 5-4 advantage with the SCOTUS, Kennedy has helped us once, hopefully twice.
And I might name my first daughter Waukesha if this is a harbinger of great things to come.
Why not? That's how most countries do it.
Actually, we are not even "playing" yet. This is just the routine procedure for submitting the first official count. Nothing out of the ordinary about correcting sloppy numbers originally given to the demanding news media.
Can a Volt hold that many?
Funny - the radio news on election day, when the socialist was leading Prosser, claimed this victory was a outright condemnation of Governor Walker.
I wonder if we hear anything again on this, if the 7,000 votes turn out to be true.
GREAT!
Sir Rah - Joined 4/7/2011
Professor Madison is that you?
Fox running with it now!
Libs on KOS and DU are going absolutely homicidal over this. On DU, they are calling for riots.
“LOL! I guess the dems will be working all night and discovering ballots in the trunks of cars.....”
Not even Wisconsin Democrats can exhume 7,000+ dead voters this late in the game.
Kloppy and her leftist goons much be in a funk. LOL!
No, 11,000+ votes were found, 7,000+ votes were for Prosser which fits with Brookfield’s demographics.
Ha ha, you lost! Get used to it because 2012 is going to be much worse for you. Can’t wait!
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