Wisconsin's "Dog-and-Pony Show" Faith-Based Supreme Court Election "Recount"

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http://www.truth-out.org/wisconsins-dog-and-pony-show-faith-based-supreme-court-election-recount/1306085374

Sunday 22 May 2011
by: Brad Friedman, The BRAD BLOG

For weeks, we've been reporting on the mess seen in the statewide "recount" of Wisconsin's very close and very contentious April 5th Supreme Court election between Republican incumbent Justice David Prosser and his challenger, Asst. Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg.

As The BRAD BLOG obtained evidence of new irregularities this week --- to add to previously reported revelations of, among other irregularities, ballot bags discovered "wide open" with mismatched or missing serial numbers as well asballots discovered completely unsecured, all in violation of the secure chain of custody, and other similar messes and mistallies across the state --- we wanted to find out if the state's chief election agency, the Government Accountability Board (G.A.B.), was able to confirm that the ballots counted during the "recount" were actually the ones cast on Election Day. And, if so, how they could confirm that.

To date, with about 25,000 "recounted" votes still to be canvassed from the now infamous Waukesha County, some 2,690 votes have been discovered during the "recount" to have been originally mistallied. That's according to the G.A.B.'s own figures, and includes hundreds of thousands of ballots which were simply re-tallied rather than counted by hand during the "recount," on the same computers which tallied them --- either correctly or incorrectly --- on Election Night.

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On Friday of last week, Barbara With, one of Kloppenburg's volunteer observers at the "recount" in Waukesha County, was startled to watch poll tapes being counted --- in this case, so-called "Voter Verified Paper Audit Trails" (VVPATs) printed out by Sequoia AVC Edge touch-screen machines from the City of Pewaukee --- even though the dates on them read March 30, 2011, a full seven days prior to the April 5th election.

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A great update on the 'recount' in Wisconsin. Oh my.

[elocs]

1. As long as being "startled" is all the comes from this, Republicans are not worried.

If these irregularities and anomalies are allowed to slide by again it is no surprise why Republicans can believe that can steal elections with impugnity.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

3. You Said It. +++++++++ -nt

[Quantess]

2. What a joke.

K & R

[Blue Owl]

4. This is the most laughable GOP "victory" yet

Too bad it's not so funny for 99% of Wisconsin.