Dems pick up another GOP seat in Wisconsin; voted 59% for Trump

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | January 16, 2018 | Patrick Marley

[St. Louis Conservative]

MADISON - Democrats snagged a GOP-leaning state Senate seat in western Wisconsin on Tuesday, buoying progressive hopes that they could ride a wave of victory this fall.

[11th_VA]

The Republican outspent the RAT by almost $100K ($270K to $180K). RATs have killed GOP brand - moderates won’t support them. Tax cuts may help, we’ll see ...

[neverevergiveup]

What was the Republican turnout in that district during the Presidential election?

[OttawaFreeper]

Agreed. People often forget that Moore had a history of performing badly in state wide elections and I can see how along with that, he likely gave that not particularly good optic when he took the last weekend of the campaign off to go to a college football game and then gave that interview to a 12 year old girl and then rode his horse to the polling booth.

[SoFloFreeper]

LS tells us DemonRats had 33% turnout. Republicans had 12%.

[mewzilla]

Um, guys, it’s a state senate seat.

Feh.

[neverevergiveup]

“And that’s what the midterms are all about. Whoever turns out wins.”

This could be a blessing in disguise if it sobers and motivates the Republican base - and if it lights a fire under the administration to campaign hard for Republican candidates in the midterms.

[neverevergiveup]

“And that’s what the midterms are all about. Whoever turns out wins.”

This could be a blessing in disguise if it sobers and motivates the Republican base - and if it lights a fire under the administration to campaign hard for Republican candidates in the midterms.

[St. Louis Conservative]

It’s definitely not one. Dems have won several deep red districts in Oklahoma, Georgia, and VA. Even the races they lost (Montana and GA-06 and KS-04) they vastly outperformed their traditional numbers.

[Yosemitest]

DemocRATS will NEVER leave elections in the hands of the voters again, after Trump won !

STEALING ELECTIONS WITH COMPUTERS and Technology Cybercrimes, watch Bloomberg's Digital Defense November 3, 2016 (19:40).

To better understand "THE MASTER KEY" to stealing elections with computers, watch:

Fraction Magic - Detailed Vote Rigging Demonstration ( 24:40 )
Bev Harris
Published on Oct 31, 2016

I'LL NEVER TRUST ANOTHER COMPUTER COUNTED ELECTION AGAIN !

Election Fraud Against Moore Confirmed, Shills BTFO ( 24:29 )

Things have changed!

Bennie Smith, a Memphis computer programmer, discovered HOW this is done through a

" ... a GEMS tabulator—for Global Election Management System—which is a personal computer installed with Diebold software that sits in a windowless room in the county’s election headquarters.
The tabulator is the brains of the system.
It monitors the voting machines, sorts out which machines have delivered data and which haven’t, and tallies the results.
As voting machines check in and their votes are included in the official count, each machine’s status turns green on the GEMS master panel.
A red light means the upload has failed.

At the end of Memphis’s election night in October 2015, there was no indication from the technician running Shelby County’s GEMS tabulator that any voting machine hadn’t checked in or that any votes had gone missing, according to election commission e-mails obtained by Bloomberg Businessweek.
Yet as county technicians followed up on the evidence from Smith’s poll-tape photo, they discovered more votes that never made it into the election night count, all from precincts with large concentrations of black voters. ... "

Diebold Election Systems changed its name in 2006 to Premier Election Solutions.
Bloomberg's article titled How to Protect Against Election Day Hacking gives more proof of this by Memphis computer programmer Bennie Smith.

"... The method Smith used to catch the problem should be a playbook for any candidate, party or concerned citizen worried about the accurate tallying of their votes:
Smith snapped some pictures of printed voting tallies (known as poll tapes) at a high-turnout polling location and then compared the results there to the electronic tabulations.
This is a very good, if labor-intensive, way to check to ensure that votes are being counted correctly.

Smith has created a proof-of-concept program called Fraction Magic, showing how corrupt officials could tamper with GEMS to manipulate election outcomes.

[Alberta's Child]

It's really that simple, isn't it?

Two things I would add here:

1. The GOP seriously damaged their credibility as a political party when they were unable to repeal ObamaCare after promising to do it for seven 'effing years. This is why you get 12% GOP turnout in a Wisconsin election like you saw yesterday.

2. I'll feel more confident once we get into mid-2018 and President Trump is a vocal presence on the campaign trail in support of GOP candidates.

[gleeaikin]

Extrapolation is also be being made from the Virginia and Alabama elections. Not to mention that 30 GOP members of Congress have said they will not run for reelection in 2018.

[gleeaikin]

” they discovered more votes that never made it into the election night count, all from precincts with large concentrations of black voters. ... “

A few years ago I was told that Diebold was a very conservative company and therefor their machines might skew elections toward the right

[greeneyes]

Hard to say with out knowing more about the candidates, and what the issues will be.

If the Dems succeed in making their people mad enough at DJT, they might be motivated to come out. I also read yesterday that 3 elections had democrat counties that were ruled invalid due to election fraud-Virginia.

All you can do is try to inform low info voters of the “real” truth of what is going on, since the TV and Radio news is non-stop propaganda/brainwashing.

[St. Louis Conservative]

Yep. And several of these are long serving, committee chairs like Bob Goodlatte, Darrell Issa, Ed Royce, etc. Unfortunateky they occupy marginal seats that can easily go Dem.

[mdmathis6]

GOP took three other special elections yesterday...so cheer up snowflake!

[mdmathis6]

The GOP took the other special election in Wisconsin(there were 2 you know) plus two others in the nation..the GOP took 3 out of 4 yesterday....so chin up! The news source was not telling the whole story!

[mdmathis6]

There were 4 special elections yesterday...the GOP won 3 of them! Some blue wave..../s

[Yosemitest]

My brother works for a security company that maintains and updates bank vaults, money drop tubes, cash machines, and fire alarms, similar to Diebold.
He has to constantly update computer programing for those security systems.
The problem with anything man-made, is that it can be corrupted by man, and with computers, it can be corrupted a lot faster.

Watch those videos I provided links to.
Click on that book and check it out.

People with far more expertise than me have discovered this corruption and have already won one court case in Memphis, PROVING that it's in the system, and it IS being used to STEAL elections.

[pgkdan]

More evidence of a blue wave. Is there any way to avoid a Dem takeover at this point?

Nonsense. One race. My guess is that this election had a lot more to do with state issues and the two candidates than President Trump.

[JudyinCanada]

There’s a problem. If dems show up no matter what and pubs show up ONLY if their candidate is 100% what they want, lots of trouble ahead. I know it’s a dilemma...you want to force the party to seek out and run good candidates, but geez Louise, you can’t hand them seats.