Prosser gains 7,500 votes in Waukesha County

[brentspeak]

Source: Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel

Updated: April 7, 2011 5:11 p.m.

Madison - In a political bombshell, the clerk in a Republican stronghold is set to release new vote totals giving 7,500 votes in the state Supreme Court race back toward Justice David Prosser, swinging the race significantly in his favor.

The Waukesha County clerk's office has told state elections officials that they will be adjusting the vote totals to give incumbent David Prosser more than 7,000 new votes, said Mike Haas, staff attorney for the state Government Accountability Board.

"Waukesha will be adjusting their vote totals by 14,000," Haas said the Accountability Board was told.

The numbers will add some 11,000 votes for Prosser and some 3,000 for Kloppenburg, he said.

Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/119410124.html

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Oh, sure...

[tabatha]

1. Yeah, right, I so believe that .

[monmouth]

9. If she's a repub, why did she hold out on these repub votes? Doesn't

make sense. Had these votes been for Klop I could understand at least the hold back.

[tabatha]

12. If she's a repub, these votes were there as a backup

in case it was close. I would like to see a through investigation and the contents of that computer open to all to review.

[midnight]

76. Yes she is..."a highly partisan Republican"

Nickolaus, a highly partisan Republican who formerly worked in the Republican Assembly caucus, has been under fire for insisting on keeping voting records in her own personal computer rather than using a more sophisticated system most of the rest of Wisconsin uses.

Who brings us the news? Not a legitimate media outlet, but Christian Schneider, an operative of the right-wing Wisconsin Public Research Institute. The first "breaking news" came from the National Review Online. How did he get the news?

Nickolaus said in a news conference tonight that "human error" was responsible for her failure to include City of Brookfield totals in the vote counts she reported for Waukesha County on election night.

"It was human error ... which I apologize for ... which is common," she said somewhat haltingly.

Nickolaus had come under fire last summer for her plans on how to handle election data:http:

//uppitywis.org/blogarticle/waukesha-republican-county-clerk-finds-7381-more-prosser-votes-h

[golfguru]

138. Are'nt most county clerks partisan one way or other?

[Doctor_J]

112. If they were for Klop they never would have been "found"

Time to wake up, monmouth

[pacalo]

14. Must be one of those "opportunities" Prosser's guy spoke about after all the votes were in.

[buddysmellgood]

2. That smells like bullshit

[Downwinder]

37. Rotting cheese.

[lonestarnot]

122. Shatty shit!

[Rex]

3. Again, we watch the otherside cheat, lie and steal.

Guess the destruction of America ain't so important. :(

[Mistwell]

38. Those who Supported the Frankin Votes Agree with Repubs on This One

Come on guys, Nate Silver is showing that the new result looks correct. Same guy who said Frankin winning the Senate seat looked correct. We cannot change our principals based on whether or not it happens to go our way for a given issue. This looks legit. How can we have credibility going forward if we ignore legit voting issues purely because it happens to go against us?

[Rex]

48. That is nice, but it is still wrong and you know it.

Why are you defending voter fraud?

[Kalun D]

51. BULLSHIP

""This looks legit.""

BULL FFFFING SHIP

from CrooksandLiars.com

It seems that Kathy Nickolaus has a history with regard to questionable election practices:

The issue came to a head when Nickolaus removed the election results collection and tallying system from the county computer network this spring and installed it on standalone personal computers in her office. She has said they are backed up with redundant systems.

http://crooksandliars.com/breaking-news/conservative-waukesha-county-clerk-f

[Rex]

64. So, she is a proven criminal...great.

Just, great.

[Kalun D]

53. TOTAL BULLSHIP

With Franken there was no one all the sudden gaining 7000 votes

when are we going to hit the streets with the torches and pitchforks?

this travesty has gone on long enough

[mvd]

72. I encourage all of Wisconsin to get out in the streets to protest

Enough is enough. How often do 7,000 votes just turn up, after the fact? Kloppenburg better ask they get thrown out due to fraud.

[neoralme]

79. That's what needs to happen but it won't. But you can call

Bernie Sanders.

[mvd]

90. Unfortunately the younger generation has been desensitized for this kind of thing

Probably due to the worsening of education for the masses, which the Repukes want. Can't have people knowing what's going on. I hope the Boomers don't have to do everything again. They are getting old now.

[neoralme]

132. Me too. I'm Boomer One. Born the first day of the boomer

generation, which was February 20, 1946.

[Newsjock]

Back into the streets

Utter bullshit.

[TroglodyteScholar]

4. Very convenient. n/t

[robcon]

5. smells

n/t

[msongs]

6. the Democratic Party USA INC does not give a crap about vote fraud, why should we?

since 2000 not much has come from our elected "leaders" on this issue when they had the chances to do something. sorry bout that lol

[aquart]

18. This is not vote fraud. It's election fraud.

[KeepItReal]

52. +1

eom

[movonne]

34. We should care because if the repugs get their way we all will be

eating out of dumpsters...

[Mistwell]

7. It's the same old computer they complained about before the election though

I think it's illogical to automatically dismiss this as cheating. This is the same old computer warned about prior to the election (the only outlier computer among the state election counting machines). If the stupid thing failed to report a city (which is what looks like happened), then we should want them to count it. Counting all the votes cast is, in my opinion, more important than winning. It would be cheating to NOT count those votes.

See:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/264209/breaking-computer-error-could-give-prosser-7381-more-votes-victory-christian-schneider

This is the same computer that was disputed back in August of 2010:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/100595954.html

[monmouth]

10. Prosser stated that numbers would change. He knows....n/t

[ejpoeta]

13. why are they using this computer if it is so unreliable!

[highplainsdem]

15. According to what I just read, her computer wasn't secure and she could have tampered with data:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x837843

And they knew that last year.

The County auditors said it was eminently possible -- including historical precedent -- for Nickolaus or a rogue employee to tamper with data. Why? Nickolaus insists on controlling password access and has unilaterally decided to move sensitive files, like election results, onto her personal computer.

[The Magistrate]

19. That Is exactly What She Did, Sir: this is Criminal Fraud, and Cries Out For Jail Time

[villager]

116. It will be allowed by our Democratic "leaders," and anyone not out on the street

Ever dollar spent in Wisconsin further "signs off" on this election fraud...

[golfguru]

139. Have you studied this matter in greater depth than Nate Silver?

Nate Silver agrees with the percentage votes from Waukesha county
to each candidate based on historical data. If you indeed have more
knowledge than 538's Nate Silver, I would love to see your data.

[suffragette]

140. You, sir, nailed it.

+1,000,000

[aquart]

31. And she is a PROGRAMMER.

Which is just a wee bit of a problem for me here.

[Mistwell]

33. But It's Always Been a Republican-Voting Town

Oh come on guys, that town always goes Republican. There is no statistical difference between this vote count and prior years. There is no evidence of tampering. We should default to counting votes. That's the principal of our party, even if it goes against a short term goal.

[monmouth]

42. Second time you've defended this..Whassup?..n/t

[Rex]

44. Sorry, but no one is buying what you are selling.

How do we know she didn't tamper with the votes? Someone needs to find out why it took all night for someone to notice an entire city was missing! How often does that happen again? And on a 'leaky' PC...that has a PROGRAMMER at the wheel?

Goodluck convincing people it is not fraud.

[ArcticFox]

62. That's the wrong comparison

What's the difference between the %age in favor of Prosser in these "new" votes and the %age in favor of Prosser in the rest of the votes in the county or precinct?

[mvd]

89. Plus, a lower turnout wouldn't be any red flag to me, since..

Democrats should have been more energized in this election anyway.

[midnight]

86. I'm not a computer programmer , are you? If you are, could you tell me

what the signs are for tampering, and who said there were no signs of tampering?

[eowyn_of_rohan]

127. "Always Goes Republican"

so that's an easy district to pad the votes. Nobody will squawk because it is Solid Red. And they make sure we all believe it.

[sofa king]

8. Close enough to steal. Told ya.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

128. All day people have been bitching whenever anyone suggested that

I told them too. Bet we wont get any credit though ;)

[demwing]

134. OK you get the credit

what now?

[eowyn_of_rohan]

144. I don't care about credit - Just don't see why we received crap for it yesterday

It isnt as if e-voting fraud is not a major problem in our country. We should be able to discuss this issue here without having our ideas slammed.

btw- did you notice the wink-smile icon? It means I am being facetious. I dont give a rat's ass about getting credit, just dont appreciate being insulted for bringing up the issue of potential election fraud

[demwing]

147. Did I insult you? No, I just want to turn the conversation

You want credit, great you get it. You just want to be free from insult, I absolutely agree.

But my point is this - let's move past the past, and focus on what can be done now.

Do you have any suggestions?

[eowyn_of_rohan]

148. I've registered with the recount team

I'm moving forward. And as I said, "credit" is a moot point.

[demwing]

150. Twice you've said so

but you brought up the remark about not getting any credit, not me

[eowyn_of_rohan]

149. By the way. What are YOU doing?

[demwing]

151. All I can - and since I live in FLA that's probably limited to donating $$$

to help pay for the recount.

I did sign up as a volunteer, but I don't know how the hell that's going to work..

[totodeinhere]

11. It looks like another election stolen by GOP thugs.

And who can be surprised? I know I am not.

And this is why I am cautious about all of the optimistic predictions coming out of DU about the 2012 election that do not take the stolen election factor into account.

[SnakeEyes]

16. Nate Silver says statistically it looks legit.

@fivethirtyeight The numbers being floated about missing votes in Brookfield seem reasonable. Would be ~11% of Waukesha vote, same as in Prez election in 08.

@fivethirtyeight Before missing votes were found, Waukesha's turnout had been 7.5% of WI's. Versus 7.8% in Pres '08, 8.7% in Gov '10, 8.7% in Feb. election.

@fivethirtyeight So I don't think there's any conspiracy here ... Waukesha's vote total had been slightly lower than you might expect.

Either way, it will be very easy to prove if an entire city was missing in the vote tally, especially since WI requires a paper trail.

[The Magistrate]

22. That Just Means The Criminals Concocted Their Fraud Competently, Sir, Nothing More

[SnakeEyes]

If an entire city is missing

it's going to pretty easy to prove. WI has paper trails too.

[mvd]

88. Good news. Let's see those paper trails if they have nothing to hide.

Nate has slowly become more corporate-friendly anyway.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

129. You have to have a court order to hand-recount the Optical Scan ballots

I wonder how hard it is to get a court order to do that. That is the only way we'll see the paper trail. Without a court order Optiscans are put through the ES&S tabulator again for the recount - and again counted via Diebold/ES&S software.

[DuaneBidoux]

25. After watching Nate for a number of years I have really come to trust him.

This may be legit, which doesn't mean it still isn't a real blow to the gut.

I was always amazed at how closely he called how the recount on Franken went. Even when Franken was behind he called it for Franken with several hundred votes and it ended up going that way very closely to what he called.

Any voter total coming in lower than the prior recent elections has to be suspect because the turnout was indeed incredible.

[Psephos]

126. Your post speaks for me as well. n/t

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[The Magistrate]

17. Ms. Nicholas Is Engaged In Planned Fraud, Sir, And Should Be Tried And Jailed

Pour encourager les autres....

[highplainsdem]

20. +1,000,000

[mvd]

91. Hi, Magistrate!

You aren't one to always believe in conspiracies, so you saying this is telling indeed. :hi:

[iwishiwas]

21. I feel like I have been hit with a hammer right now.

[Iris]

23. you're not the only one.

:(

[pacalo]

24. Kathy Nicholas (sp?), the county clerk, has been involved in shady election results in the past.

See highplaindem's OP: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x837843

[garthranzz]

26. Like we didn't know this was coming...

2000, 2004 - any close, volatile or politically important election WILL BE STOLEN until the rot is exposed to sunlight and the criminals made opprobium.

[CanonRay]

27. This cannot stand.

[slackmaster]

28. That rug really tied the room together, and they peed on it.

:argh:

[CanonRay]

29. Holder needs to get the FBI in there NOW

[Le Taz Hot]

108. He's way too busy

busting medical marijuana growers in California and Wyoming to worry about some trivial election-tampering scheme.

[onethatcares]

30. but ACORN was busted in Nevada and fined 5000.00

they're just trying to even the score:sarcasm:

jesuswept, what has happened to our country? how can a supervisor of elections hold back votes or not tabulate a count until after the election

is close to being decided.

[Blaq Dem]

Professional con men. That's what they are. EVIL BASTARDS!!!

They can't help themselves.

[Blue Owl]

32. Well then, let's have us a little investigation then

and look a little deeper into our GOP-manufactured voting equipment, shall we?

[Blaq Dem]

39. It won't happened. Democrats are too weak-kneed. Remember Al Gore? John Kerry?

They let republiKKKlans get away with lying, cheating, and stealing.

[neoralme]

46. Exactly.

[xchrom]

35. And from a computer and offial that's been

'problematic
' in the past?

Right.

[KansDem]

36. Wait! Let me see if I understand this...

The polls closed 48 hours ago and the tally verified. Now they're saying they "found" 7,500 more in the computer? Why weren't these included in the original count?

If they expect us to believe this, I've got a palm tree in Madison to sell them...

[thelordofhell]

63. They "found" about 14,000 votes

The difference is around 7,500 in favor of Prosser

:argh:

[neoralme]

40. There is no way this was not going to happen, and there is no way

the happening will not stand. The Rethuglicans are simply playing a different game. They will do "anything" to win. Gee, guess we'll have to contact Bernie Sanders....

[JournalistKev87]

41. I literally want to throw my laptop out the window!

Seriously, this is some fucking bullshit! This country is truly and utterly ass backwards.

If this is the preview for 2012, we are FUCKED! I seriously see no way out of this shithole we are in.

I hope Wisconsinites take to the street if this election is stolen.

SZXDFHBJUI87Y6TGFYNKJ8I97YGHJ897YGFTOLP8I90GFTYHJBNK890GFTYHBJNKOLP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Matariki]

43. Oh, what a fucking surprise.

not.

[onehandle]

45. If this holds, it's just more reason for Democrats to get off their asses in the recalls and in 2012

Dammit.

[LawnKorn]

47. The Republicans are stealing this election even while we watch

The Republicans have not even brought out the Koch funded lawyers yet.

[Matariki]

49. So. Fucking. Sick. of this Shit.

Really. They couldn't be any more obvious and no one ever stops them.

[DuaneBidoux]

50. This might not be entirely a bad thing. This is the second super thugish act (after the quick vote)

If it becomes even remotely apparent that this bitch has stolen the election then the Republicans are simply finished in that state for 30 years at least. They are, over and over, showing their true colors in ways that can only surely push independents to Dems for decades to come.

If this stands I predict a few more Saturday rallies like we had recently and a new even more intense momentum for the Dems.

[Owl]

54. Corruption....

[Faygo Kid]

55. With these new GOP thug governors, you can multiply Ohio in 2004 many times over in 2012

Unless they are recalled. And what are the odds of that, given the kind of thing they have pulled off here.

No doubt Walker will promote her to a plum administration position. Katherine Harris, anyone?

[KeepItReal]

56. File suit! Subpoena that equipment!

Have some forensic PC technicians look at that system and find out of there is any history of files being updated.

[Kalun D]

57. Same Story at Crooks and Liars

http://crooksandliars.com/breaking-news/conservative-waukesha-county-clerk-f

The only thing I'm wondering is why the Dems did absolutely ZERO about vote reform when they held both houses of congress

[villager]

117. Their bosses wouldn't allow them to. It was never about "democracy"

n/t

[last_texas_dem]

58. Anyone know the voting situation in Waukesha County?

Is there any paper trail to use to verify what went down should we have a recount? Or do we just have to trust the word of some shady, partisan county official that she goofed but everything's cool now?

[savannah43]

99. The latter.

A fixed election! I am weak with surprise!~

[eilen]

59. If this is legitamate,

what does this say about Wisconsin and, in general the US?

Does this mean there is truly a majority that agrees with Walker, the Tea Party and Ryan? Is it time for me to emigrate?

[Freddie Stubbs]

69. It means that we are pretty much divided

[mvd]

75. Scarily divided

But we will prevail because we're in the right and people eventually have to see that. Let's just hope Repukes don't wreck things for hundreds of years or there isn't another civil war first. I'm a peaceful person and want 60s style protests instead, but if the corporations turn the country fascist, we have to have our country back.

[ArcticFox]

60. Is this consistent with the rest of the votes in that county?

11000/14000 is 78.5% in favor of Prosser. What was the %age in favor of Prosser for the previously-reported votes? Is any deviation statistically significant?

Come on, there must be some statisticians on here. What's the analysis?

[TxVietVet]

61. Waukesha is a conservanazi stronghold.

Anyone wanna bet they rigged this one?

[harun]

142. Yup, I know the area.

[AsahinaKimi]

65. OH LOOK!!!

I found 14,000 votes tucked under my front car seat!! I must have forgotten them, My bad!!!!

Yeah, right...:argh:

[sarcasmo]

66. Looks like another stolen election by Billionaires.

[Akoto]

67. This would be why I didn't start celebrating last night.

It ain't over until the recounts are over, be they fraudulent or otherwise, particularly in a race that was this close.

[tpsbmam]

68. She keeps election results on her personal PC and that's fucking legal? WTF!

How the hell is this even legal? Why the hell does this woman get away with it? This is totally insane. Here are some snippets -- there's a lot more at http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8456

As Schneider notes in the NRO piece, Waukesha's County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus had indeed come under scrutiny for her election procedures in the past. As The BRAD BLOG flagged back in August of 2010, it was discovered that Nickolaus keeps election results on her personal PC in her office, and only on her personal PC.

Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus' decision to go it alone in how she collects and maintains election results has some county officials raising a red flag about the integrity of the system.

Nickolaus said she decided to take the election data collection and storage system off the county's computer network - and keep it on stand-alone personal computers accessible only in her office - for security reasons.

"What it gave me was good security of the elections from start to finish, without the ability of someone unauthorized to be involved," she said.

This stinks to high heaven. I can't even believe this is allowed to go on. One woman has complete control over election results on HER personal PC. No oversight, no observer from the other side, nothing. Just this POS and her PC. Election integrity? What a fucking joke! This must be stopped IMMEDIATELY. And there should be a thorough investigation, including going through the votes from that district with a fine-toothed comb.

[Kolesar]

141. truly horrible...eom

[Ilsa]

70. Let's face it: if they can get away with this shit, democracy is OVER. nt

[eowyn_of_rohan]

130. It already WAS over. We hoped to get it back

[Botany]

71. You mean the county that went 73% for Prosser .....

.... misplaced the amount of votes = to just about 20 precincts?

or about 9% of the total vote.




What a surprise. I have worked poll watching and election protection since 2004 .....
this is impossible to "just happen." At the end of the day all polls turn their votes,
electronic data, poll logs, and voter machine seal #s to the county BOE and from there
the data goes into a computer / compiler and the totals should be cross checked to the # of
voters who voted. They have flush toilets and computers in Wisconsin .... this is just
about 100% impossible to happen by random chance.

Bullshit ..... people should be in jail for this kind of fraud.

[mvd]

74. Couple that with Prosser's statement about "finding" votes, and..

this could be one brazen theft attempted. Kloppenburg has to have people investigating this immediately. Send them to Waukesha tonight!

[neoralme]

77. The Rethuglicans are too strong and are not afraid of using any

tactic necessary. They will steal this vote and whatever they want in 2012. There is no one to fight fire with fire with them.

[elocs]

73. If Republicans are so omnipotent, why bother to even vote at all.

Why not save the effort and give up now since Republicans are so all-powerful and cannot be stopped? :shrug:

[Imajika]

78. According to what I am reading the Democratic member of the canvass board....

....concurs with the new numbers.

http://elections.wispolitics.com/2011/04/waukesha-county-clerk-apologizes-for.html

From the article:

The wild swing in Prosser's favor immediately raised concerns among Dems, who pointed out Nickolaus is a former staffer for the Assembly Republican Caucus who was granted immunity in the investigation into allegations of illegal campaign activities on state time.

Ramona Kitzinger, the Democratic member of the county board of canvass, defended the process. She agreed with Nickolaus that the board "went over everything and made sure that all the numbers jived up, and they did."

"I'm the Democratic vice chair of Waukesha County, so I'm not going to stand here and tell you something that's not true," Kitzinger said.

[mvd]

84. Anyone can say anything under threats

There still needs to be a full investigation.

[RedCloud]

115. Can anyone confirm Kitzinger is not a repub plant as often happens?

They pose as democrats only to allow election fraud.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

131. Ah yes, like Madame Butterfly Ballot - Christine LePore

Yes - I worry about Ramona, too. She might not be as brazen but she may just not be that on top of things. That kind can be valuable to them too.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

145. Aaaaack!! that's THERESA - THERESA LePore

i should have remembered that.

[iwishiwas]

80. Wisconsin corrects vote count, gives incumbent Supreme Count Justice David Prosser big lead

Source: Post cresent




Wisconsin corrects vote count, gives incumbent Supreme Count Justice David Prosser big lead
JoAnne Kloppenburg now faces 7,500-vote deficit
6:05 PM, Apr. 7, 2011 |
88 Comments

Written by
The Associated Press


WAUKESHA — A conservative-leaning Wisconsin county is correcting its count and giving an unofficial 7,500-vote lead to the incumbent in the hotly contested state Supreme Court race seen as a referendum on Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s divisive union rights law.

Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said Thursday that the votes weren’t reported to The Associated Press on Tuesday due to “human error.”

Before the announcement, it was assumed 68-year-old conservative Justice David Prosser’s race against liberal assistant state attorney general JoAnne Kloppenburg was headed for a recount.

But Prosser’s lead is likely to stand if the new numbers hold up through canvassing in all of Wisconsin’s 72 counties................


Read more: http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20110407/APC0101/110407121/Prosser-takes-big-lead-recounts-could-flip-Supreme-Court-race?odyssey=mod|lateststories

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This has to be the most devastating news for all of us who -just a few short hours ago were elated.

[pnwmom]

81. It's actually not a big lead, it just seems that way compared

to where we were.

Considering that Kloppenburg was virtually unknown 6 months ago, she did extremely well.

[iwishiwas]

103. Yes, I agree but it is not the same as a WIN. Just not the same no

matter how you work the words.

[demwing]

135. Sorry, coming in 2nd in a field of 2 doesn't make me feel better

This race was so fucking important - winning was EVERYTHING.

[Vinnie From Indy]

82. Again, I would like to hear from the Democrat on the canvass board for that county

Is she objecting? Would she even know if she was getting suckered by the GOP? So many questions!

[Imajika]

85. She is not objecting from what I just read...

Kitzinger, the Democratic member of the canvass, concurred with the new numbers.

[mvd]

87. Wouldn't take just her word for it

There can be traitors on our side. It seems really, really weird that the error would be discovered just now.

[brentspeak]

95. An elderly woman who did not seem the sort to know much about the complex technical issues involved

With all due respect, Ms. Kitzinger didn't strike the viewer as one who would know a whole lot about legacy hardware and proprietary database software. Hard to say how also how much she could assert herself during a canvassing effort led by the aggressive and much younger GOP county clerk whose claim to fame was giving the stiff-arm to the public when asked to make her canvassing procedures more transparent.

[mvd]

98. Good point

:thumbsup:

[DumpDavisHogg]

119. This is why the protests MUST continue

Now the Madison protesters have something else to protest, and they should. The protests should continue until Prosser is booted out.

[slackmaster]

143. No final, official result has been published yet. Anyone who is "devastated" or "elated"...

...has reacted prematurely to non-certified and therefore legally and historically irrelevant information.

[iwishiwas]

83. Wisconsin corrects vote count, gives incumbent Supreme Count Justice David Prosser big lead

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[ElsewheresDaughter]

92. Denmark is starting to stink,,,this is definitely shenanigans

[Botany]

93. Sorry to rant but this is impossible .... easy to prove

They better damn well have the same # of applications for absentee ballots
and signatures in the poll logs (what you sign before you vote) = to the amount
of votes shown.

[ArcticFox]

94. Statistically significant difference from other votes in county

(Edited to account for the post not recognizing spaces)

According to http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/article_6386782e-614f-11e0-97e5-001cc4c002e0.html?mode=story, the vote totals in Waukesha County are as follows (percentage calculations are mine):

Prosser(P) Kloppenburg(K) Total(T)

As of yesterday: P=29332 K=81255 T=110587
%age P=26.52 K=73.48 T=100

"New" votes today: P=3426 K=11008 T=14434
P=23.74 K=76.26 T=100

Total as of today: P=32758 K=92263 T=125021
(yesterday + new) P=26.20 K=73.80 T=100


Notice that the new votes are skewed about 2.5% more in favor of Prosser than either the previous votes or tne total including the new votes. Using the significance calculator #3 found at http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/polls/calcs.html, it shows the probability of this difference occurring by chance to be less than one in 10,000 (p<0.0001).

For reference, scientific studies generally use a probability value of .05, or one in twenty probability of the result occurring by chance, when determining whether results are statistically significant.

Unless there is something DRASTICALLY different about the City of Brookfield as compared to the other cities in the County of Waukesha, the skew of results reported from this city so heavily in favor of Prosser is not a chance occurrence.

I'm relying on an internet calculator and a knowledge of statistics I acquired over ten years ago, but I think this is certainly in the right ballpark. Love to see this done by a real statistician, but until one shows otherwise, I think there needs to be a serious investigation.

[gristy]

102. You've got your K's and P's reversed

[jsamuel]

124. all that means is that there is a reason why it was different from the rest of the county

the answer could be as simple as, more people there liked one side or the other

[wisteria]

96. And, we are suppose to believe this is not being manipulated and rigged ?

I have never heard of anything this blatantly crooked. And, it is frighten to think that certain forces are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals.
I don't believe that a voting system could get it so wrong originally and it makes you question whether past and future elections can be counted on as being reliable.
This absolutely disgusting that rigged elections like this are happening in America.

[YvonneCa]

121. Not me. Not after 2000 and 2004. Something really...

...needs to be done about this.

My earlier post:

Okay Dems. NOW is the time to debate the integrity of our...
Edited on Thu Apr-07-11 04:56 PM by YvonneCa
...election system. The stakes are high in Wisconsin...but they'll be even higher in 2012. Better to have the debate around a non-presidential crisis.

Don't you think?

First the debate...then improve the system. We know how to make it work fairly.

[Ilsa]

97. So, can another county come up with 8,000 votes for his opponent? Seems like an easy trick! nt

[shellgame26]

100. BULLfuckingSHIT

[Stuart G]

101. I have never heard of such an error in over 50 years of following politics..

Not 10,000 lost votes...nope..I wonder if anyone else has..???

[slackmaster]

120. Just one that I can think of, Stuart G, and it wasn't during my lifetime

[CBHagman]

104. Read the whole article, folks!

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/119410124.html

"I'm thankful that this error was caught early in the process. This is not a case of extra ballots being found. This is human error which I apologize for, which is common," Nickolaus said, her voice wavering as she spoke to reporters.

(SNIP)

Nickolaus said the problem had nothing to do with her election system, which has been criticized as outdated. Her election operation was the subject of a county audit last year after complaints were leveled that she was not cooperative with information technology specialists who wanted to check the system's integrity and backup.

The audit concluded that while the clerk's system generally complies with state and federal guidelines and accuracy of election totals was not at issue, Nickolaus should improve security and backup procedures.

Although it was not among the audit recommendations, Nickolaus' decision to no longer report municipal election results separately on election night, as many other county clerks do, has raised questions. Nor does she show in the running totals throughout election night what proportion of the voting units are included in the tallies.

:grr:

[freshwest]

105. :(

[electricD]

106. I remember in '04

when a WHOLE county in Ohio that supposedly ALWAYS went democratic had their votes completely thrown out for whatever reason.

Rumor was, at the time, that it was enough votes to get Kerry the electoral votes he needed.

[reformist2]

107. This sure strengthens my faith in the myth that every vote counts.

I wonder how many times my vote was lost or miscounted over the years...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

109. If the Wisconsin Dems don't get a oourt order to secure the voting machines NOW

and then demand that the code be checked, they have neither smarts nor guts.

[RedCloud]

110. She failed to look the camera in the eye.

You could almost see the Koch puppet strings being pulled.

[Doctor_J]

111. Recall elections will be stolen the same way

Time for something to burn, or expect the same sort of crap in the recall elections.

[reformist2]

113. I hate to suggest it, but could there have been competitive vote fraud on both sides last night .

I have no proof, but it would explain why the total stayed so close to 50% all night.

Probably the only legitimate votes counted are the 14,000 suddenly "discovered" tonight!

[Name removed]

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[slackmaster]

118. I believe the simplest, therefore most likely explanation, is human error

With an understandable emotional reaction from people who prematurely celebrated a victory that didn't really happen.

[tahrir]

125. you forgot the sarcasm tag

fyi

[demwing]

154. I understand that this is what you believe

but what evidence do you have to support that belief?

Why is "the simplest, therefore most likely explanation" human error? Why isn't it fraud?

[DBoon]

123. What pumpkin did they pull those votes from?

nt

[alp227]

133. I live in California, another state with elected Supreme Court justices

and this election drama makes me consider being against elected judiciaries, as I voted for county and state judges last election.

[Zambero]

137. The miracle of votes and fishes

And suddenly the personal data files opened and there were many more votes, thousands and thousands of them, coincidentally from the largest conservative county in the state. Also coincidentally just enough votes for the good Justice to preclude a recount. Smells very fishy!

[Zorra]

146. They'll never find the fraud, if there actually was fraud.

There is a slim chance that this was not fraud.

It is possible that this whole scenario was orchestrated for another purpose. Somebody might have even been so shallow and stupid that they wanted to get a 15 minutes of fame and become a RW hero. Or stupidly figured that that she/they could stymie the resolve of labor and progressives in fighting for their rights. etc.

In any case, it remains a fact that until we have a completely transparent standardized national voting process free of electronic devices, wealthy private interests will use their coin to find "virtually" untraceable ways to manipulate vote counts to suit their needs.

Please don't shoot the messenger here, but it will be a huge waste of time and money to try to find the fraud, except that it needs to be done solely on principle.

Waukesha County government is hard core right wing. Wisconsin state government is owned by wealthy private right wing interests. The Wisconsin Supreme Court is owned by wealthy private right wing interests.

Therefore, the legal obstructions alone that will be presented by the wealthy private interests that are invested in controlling the judiciary will be formidable if not insurmountable.

The bottom line is, whoever designed the system by which this (probable) fraud was perpetrated already figured out all the angles.

The only way they could possibly get caught is if a primary election official in Waukesha or an accomplice involved in the chain of custody 'fesses up, and the wealthy private interests that control the legislature and judiciary will never let them get within a 100 miles of an impartial prosecutor.

Scott Walker woke up the sleeping giant. Waukesha County just spit in the giant's face.

They have one totally pissed off, fully awake giant on their hands now, and now the giant is going crush them.

[marasinghe]

152. somewhat on a tangent -

i come from a country which has a GNP that's pocket change to bill gates; but even in such a poor country, if there were problems with an election, instead of bullshit recounts & lawsuits, they simply re-held the election in any particular town, village, or locality, which had doubtful results.

maybe this is too simple; but, WTF is so sacred with the system here, that we can't do the rational thing & have fresh elections in doubtful circumstances?

[defendandprotect]

153. Only way the right can win is via stolen elections --