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3. Recounts
Thu Jun 7, 2012, 11:21 AM
Jun 2012

I think they are done by hand count in Wisconsin, thankfully.

I do not trust voting machines. Our small county here in Wisconsin got "free" voting machines this year.

According to this article:

Forty-six Wisconsin counties and 3,000 voting machines are being controlled by a two-person company operating out of a strip mall in Minnesota

http://wcmcoop.com/members/meet-command-central-the-people-in-charge-of-wisconsin-voting-machines/

Tonight, I was just randomly looking at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel voting results map. I thought it was a bit of a coincidence that three adjoining lakeshore counties--Sheboygan, Manitowoc, and Kewaunee---all had the exact same percentage (64%-34% Walker) while on the western side of the state, three adjoining counties--Burnett, Polk, and St. Croix--all the very similar percentages (60-61% Walker to 39% Barrett). Maybe I'm reaching...

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/152346265.html

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