Posted on 06/15/2012 10:09:40 AM PDT by Hunton Peck
Wisconsin state GOP. Sen. Van Wanggaard asked elections officials Friday for a recount in his recall race, the outcome of which will decide the majority party in the state Senate.
An official canvass this week showed the Racine Republican trailing his Democratic challenger by 834 votes, or 1.2 percent.
Democrats had called on Wanggaard to concede, saying a recount would only delay their inevitable and waste taxpayer money. But Wanggaard's campaign said it was concerned about possible reports of voting irregularities, and said it wanted to ensure the outcome was accurate.
Given how many votes were cast in the election and the margin separating the candidates, the recount will cost Wanggaard $5 for each of the 137 wards, or $685. Taxpayers will be on the hook for any remainder of the recount bill.
The state Senate currently has 16 Democrats and 16 Republicans. The winner of Wanggaard's race will give his party majority control.
If the recount reverses the outcome, the loss by Democrat John Lehman would...
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Kudoes to Wanggaard, but...
The Dhimmicrats will manufacture more votes (they’ll need a buffer, you see) and Wanggaard will lose by more than 800+. I predict some where north of 1100.
Challenging a rat party demon is NEVER a waste of tax payer money... NEVER!
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I should think he might have a good chance of reversing the results IF the recount isn’t totally dominated by crooked Dem judges and other operatives.
I wonder if his district included any of the polling stations where those union guys bussed a truck full of senility victims from one poll to another? Or how many votes came from Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, not to mention zombies.
Wisconsin Senator asks for recount in election dispute
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A recount will mean that the Republicans hold control over the Senate for at least another month, even if Wanggaard eventiually loses. The legislature is out of session for now, but the Governor could call them back in special session if he wants to.
Or folks bused in from Michigan; was that story ever either debunked or corroborated? Some guy called in to a radio show saying he was on a bus going to WI to vote.
Kudos to the Repubs on this one. They should drag it out and make it as unpleasant as possible. Challenge every vote and raise holy hell. Keep the Wisconsin senate tied up in knots. It’s time to take off the gloves!
What’s more, the whole recall was a waste of taxpayer money, brought about entirely by the Dems themselves, and Wanggaard will be charged for the cost of the recount, but NOW they want to whine about it?
He also needs to ask about the validity of the voters who who, whether they are who they said they are.
The Rats are suspected of cheating in Wisconsin. I remember someone found many pre-authorized voting applications at a Community college a few days after the election in this area. The applications were already signed by the registar. Some were blank, so partially filled out.
He won’t win, but that’s really not the issue. Now all the the voting illegalities that occurred down in Racine will have to be covered and discussed while the recount goes on.
Listening to Sykes this AM the amount of fraud and the complete lack of subtlety about it was so egregious during the recall that it will hopefully embarrass the GAB (doubtful) and spur Van Hollen to get the Voter ID back in front of the WSSC.
“Democrats called on Wanggaard to concede, saying a recount would waste taxpayer money.”
Since when have democrats been concerned about wasting TP money?
When its pulled from their own pockets.
If that’s the story about the ones found behind a Racine community center yesterday, I doubt there’ll be any more on it until the sheriff’s investigation is complete. Whether that will amount to anything more than returning the ballotts — and the story — to the dumpster, is an open question.
The problem is that one of the ways they cheated was to have a poll worker enter the absentee ballots into the computer. Now there is no way to differentiate those votes from the legit votes. Once again the Demonrats steel an election.
If the shoe was on the other foot, the Democrats would challenge the result from here till doomsday. You’d never hear the end of it.
From another thread it sounds likely they will find fraud. If so, I’d like to see some folks do jail time.
Not anymore. The game has changed. He should fight the bastards for every single vote. Even if he loses, he should make 'em sweat bullets.
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