Wisconsin - State Election Officials to Investigate despite Prosser's "frivilous" charge.

[Scuba]

http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/120373999.html

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Madison —State elections officials said Thursday they won't step away from their review of a county clerk's handling of the recent Supreme Court election despite of a call for that by one of the candidates.


"With respect to the public statements about our impartiality, it is the statutory responsibility of this agency to conduct these investigations. We are authorized to employ outside investigators, but they work under our direction," Kennedy said in a statement.

Board spokesman Reid Magney said it would be up to the board to decide whether to hire an outside investigator. Most of the board's work on investigations is secret.

Kloppenburg said Wednesday that an investigation of the Waukesha County clerk was necessary and that something must be done so "real change" comes to the county's election practices and procedures.

It remains to be seen whether Kloppenburg's campaign will seek a more labor-intensive hand recount as it has signaled it might. To receive such a recount, the campaign would have to demonstrate that a hand recount would be more accurate, state elections officials have said.

A campaign aide to Kloppenburg could not be immediately reached for comment on that possibility Thursday morning.
Prosser campaign manager Brian Nemoir said Thursday that a machine recount would be both more timely and more accurate than counting done by people since machines are better at counting large numbers of ballots quickly.

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What will this reveal? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Pab Sungenis]

1. I think the "14,000 rediscovered votes" incident

is enough evidence to question computer counts, and ask for a hand count.

[librechik]

2. yes, "close enough" is not good enough for our elections for heaven's sake

especially if electronic machines were in use. We need to hand count to check
the machine count, duh