You Won't Believe What Just Happened In Wisconsin

[Purveyor]

By Andrew Leonard

An extraordinary development in the Wisconsin state Supreme Court election: The county clerk for conservative Waukesha County has reported that she neglected to include 14,000 votes from the town of Brookfield in the totals she sent to the Associated Press Tuesday night. The new numbers reportedly give conservative incumbent David Prosser a net gain of 7,582 additional votes, decisively swinging the race in his favor. At a press conference Thursday afternoon, the Waukesha county clerk, a Republican, reported that the votes for Brookfield had not been "saved in the computer."

Further complicating the story, the clerk in question, Kathy Nickolaus, a former computer specialist, received flak last summer for her idiosyncratic approach to collecting and maintaining election data. And in 2002, during a criminal investigation into illegal campaigning on state time," while running for the office of Waukesha county clerk, Nickolaus was granted immunity from prosecution, for reasons that are unclear at this writing.

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[krispos42]

1. This whole thing is screaming "INVESTIGATION"

I'm sick of this shit. We've been doing this for goddamn 229 year now!!!

:grr:

[vroomvroom]

2. If there is ever an election error why is it always in favor of Republicans? nt

[intheflow]

3. It's an amazing coincidence! n/t

[KaryninMiami]

4. Because they control the machines that we vote on and they count the votes

That's what happens when we vote on electronic machines manufactured by and serviced by companies with a political agenda. Perhaps once day America will wake up to the truth - but clearly it's not going to happen in this race. Until we can verify our elections, this will continue to happen and as long as we keep using those machines created by partisan corporations that do not allow anyone but their own service people to verify the votes, without a landslide, we will always loose.

[tavalon]

5. Ah, de ja vu!

Here we go again! Will our candidate fold like Kerry did or might we have a little accountability?

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Has anyone initiated a lawsuit yet?