Wisconsin election vote fraud investigation

[Riot]

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/loc...cc4c03286.html

The state's investigation into vote irregularities in Waukesha County will stretch back at least five years, the head of the Government Accountability Board said Thursday.

Questions over vote totals in Waukesha have lingered over the past week after County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced she failed to report more than 14,000 votes from the city of Brookfield in initial vote totals.

Note: Nickolaus had the election certified by the other party vote counters that afternoon, before she held her 5:30pm press conference announcing she found 14,000 votes.

In many cases, the number of votes totaled more than the number of ballots cast.

The results for the 2006 attorney general's race, for example, show 174,047 votes for either Democrat Kathleen Falk, Republican J.B. Van Hollen or write-in candidates, a total that is 17,243 votes higher than the total ballots cast recorded elsewhere in the results.

Vote early, vote often!

[timmgirvan]

DEMS get caught AGAIN!!!

[Riot]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

DEMS get caught AGAIN!!!

What is that supposed to mean? She's Republican, used to work under/with Prosser, and has already in her political history received immunity in exchange for testifying in a multiple felony conviction case.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by Riot

What is that supposed to mean? She's Republican, used to work under/with Prosser, and has already in her political history received immunity in exchange for testifying in a multiple felony conviction case.

just wanted to get your input

[nebrady]

Oh by the way riot its official prosser wins. Its in the paper so get over it! Oh and by the way a democrat watched her recount the votes in waukesha. So she wasn't trying to cheat she just missed votes it happens. Its gotten so ridiculous in madison that some people want to have an alternative brat fest this memorial day because Johnsonville who donates over 200,00 to the brat fest gave money to walkers campaign. What a joke and even the madison paper had an editorial saying that its getting out of hand. Congrat on prosser winning maybe this state can stay out of the news for awhile.

[dellinger63]

They should have a alternative brat fest. Serve soy brats and white wine rather than Johnsonville’s and beer. The uproar coming from Madison is predominantly the voice of students, many of whom are from out of state, and don't have a clue about the real world much less the State of Wisconsin. As soon as they go home for summer break the capital will go to sleep.

As far as the woman from Waukesha is concerned, she should be fired immediately and needs to reimburse the county for any expenses incurred fixing her mistakes. Doesn’t matter whether she is a republican or democrat she can’t do her job. Maybe returning carts in a grocery store parking lot is more her speed as long as she isn’t required to count the carts.

[Riot]

Four recall petitions have now been filed against Republican state Senators in Wisconsin: Dan Kapanke (April 1), Randy Hopper (April 7), Luther Olsen (April 18), and Sheila Harsdorf (April 19, today).

The petitions will likely all be challenged by the Senators against whom they were filed, but given that the petitions all exceeded 140% of the minimum amount required and were closely examined before being submitted, all the challenges will fail.

www.dailykos.com

I don't know if any recalls have been successfully collected against any Democratic Senators as promised. Wiphan? Do you know of any?

[dellinger63]

This moron declared victory election night with her up just over 200 votes. Now being down more than 7,300 votes, more than a month later she wants a recount? LOL

GFY! Wisconsin can't afford such nonsense.

http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/lates...ewide-recount/

[wiphan]

Originally Posted by Riot

www.dailykos.com

I don't know if any recalls have been successfully collected against any Democratic Senators as promised. Wiphan? Do you know of any?

Yes

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepo...120328284.html

Hansen, Holperin and Wirch

[wiphan]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

This moron declared victory election night with her up just over 200 votes. Now being down more than 7,300 votes, more than a month later she wants a recount? LOL

GFY! Wisconsin can't afford such nonsense.

http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/lates...ewide-recount/

Estimate cost of the recount is between $3-3.5 million dollars of local govts funds to pay for the recount. In WI history the largest change of votes in response to a recount was 489 votes. Kloppenburg lost by 7,316 votes. This will definitely help the budget

[wiphan]

Originally Posted by Riot

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/loc...cc4c03286.html



Note: Nickolaus had the election certified by the other party vote counters that afternoon, before she held her 5:30pm press conference announcing she found 14,000 votes.



Vote early, vote often!

The left is just mad because they didn't know how many votes they needed to cheat and win the election. They thought they had it. Nobody likes a sore loser, especially one that costs us $ Also note I don't think Nickolaus had certified the votes before the mistake was found. They were reported to the AP, but not certified I believe

[Riot]

Originally Posted by wiphan

Yes

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepo...120328284.html

Hansen, Holperin and Wirch

We'll see if they do get them in today. The Republicans have filed no recall petitions so far, and they have only until Tuesday to file. Another source says they only have enough signatures so far for Hansen and Holperin.

And there's this unflattering new investigation about one Republican signature gatherer:

The Wisconsin Democratic Party is planning to file a complaint to the state Government Accountability Board alleging that a Republican signature-gatherer offered alcoholic beverages to a group of women to get them to sign a recall petition against a Democratic state senator.

Although that's not illegal in Wisconsin, it is strongly discouraged and, Democrats argue, evidence that Republicans don't really have enough grassroots support for their recall campaigns.

Reid Magney, a spokesman for the GAB -- which oversees the state's campaign finance, elections, ethics and lobbying laws -- said offering drinks in return for signatures doesn't actually appear to be illegal.

"Our attorneys have been unable to find anything in state law that would prohibit offering drinks or anything for signing a petition," Magney said, though he added that they "strongly encourage people not to do so because it taints the process."

Based on the above recording, Wisconsin Democratic Party spokesman Graeme Zielinski confirmed that the party may still file a complaint with the GAB challenging a possible Wirch recall petition on ethical grounds.

The Dems have already filed twice the signatures needed to recall four GOP Senators, but only have until May 2 to get enough signatures for anyone else.

Somewhere I read they were going to try and hold all the recall elections on the same date (rather than one at a time, as they come in).

Even though a recall election is forced, there still has to be another candidate to run, and the other candidate has to win against the incumbent being recalled.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by wiphan

The left is just mad because they didn't know how many votes they needed to cheat and win the election. They thought they had it.

If you are going to make accusations of fraud, I suggest you back them up or be dismissed as a crank.

For example, like fact of the Republican county clerk Nickolaus suddenly appearing with 7,000 votes, triggering an investigation by the independent Government Accountability Board, and an expensive recount.

And yes, Nickolaus did have the Democratic members of the election council certify her results that afternoon, then she held her press conference announcing she didn't count 7,000 votes.

And the first reports of the "found" votes were not by the AP, but strangely, were in right wing blogs in late afternoon before her press conference.

Nobody likes a sore loser, especially one that costs us $

You mean like Nickolaus coming up with the sudden votes forcing a recount because the public can't trust her (and her past political legal problems, and the fact she worked for Prosser) and now doubts the election results?

Or Prosser holding not one but two press conferences to announce his win, then also announcing at his second
I won!" pressor this week that he would attempt to legally block the recount? (even though the win margin is small enough to trigger a state-funded auto recount?)

Meanwhile, Walkers union-busting bill is on hold while it moves through the legal challenges. Seems Wisconsin has elected some expensive representatives. Three months in office, and already what they've done is tied up in courts with legal challenges, and costing the citizens hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

We'll see if they do get them in today. The Republicans have filed no recall petitions so far, and they have only until Tuesday to file. Another source says they only have enough signatures so far for Hansen and Holperin..

A conservative group has filed the first petition to recall a Democratic Wisconsin senator over his stance on Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargaining law.

The committee to recall Dave Hansen of Green Bay has more than the 14,000 signatures needed to trigger a recall election. Election officials have 31 days to review the signatures, unless a court grants an extension.

Groups attempting to recall Democratic Sens. Jim Holperin of Conover and Robert Wirch of Pleasant Prairie also are expected to file recall petitions on Thursday. Democrats already have filed petitions to recall four Republican senators. Both parties are targeting senators for their support or opposition to a bill that would strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights.

http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/lates...ecall-wis-dem/

[Riot]

Looks like the Republicans filed their first three today (Holperin, Wirch, Hansen) while the Dems added a fifth (Darling) to Olsen, Hopper, Kapanke, Harsdorf.

http://gab.wi.gov/

http://gab.wi.gov/elections-voting/recall

The Dems would need to defeat 3 of those to flip the Senate to Democratic control.

[Riot]

Republican efforts to recall Dems. Taylor, Risser and Coggs have failed.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_16c6983c-6f93-11e0-a81b-001cc4c002e0.html?nstrack=sid:420910|met:102|cat:3 165555|order:2

A recall effort targeting two Democratic state senators has fallen short at the deadline.

Organizers had until Monday afternoon to turn in petitions to recall Sen. Lena Taylor of Milwaukee and Sen. Fred Risser of Madison. But the organizers failed to meet the deadline.

Election officials are currently reviewing petitions already turned in against five GOP senators and three Democratic senators. The senators are being targeted for their votes for or against a divisive bill that curtails collective bargaining rights for most public employees.

Organizers targeting Democratic Sen. Spencer Coggs of Milwaukee have until Tuesday to file a recall petition.

[dellinger63]

as a sidebar those Dr.'s writing the fake notes were punished. I have no problem with that but do with "The statement didn't identify the doctors, citing public employee records laws, and said "the school will not comment on individual cases."

'We' as in 'taxpayers' pay them and WTF is public employees records laws? Good Grief! Let's see who the f'ups were.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/loc...cc4c03286.html

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

as a sidebar those Dr.'s writing the fake notes were punished. I have no problem with that but do with "The statement didn't identify the doctors, citing public employee records laws, and said "the school will not comment on individual cases."

'We' as in 'taxpayers' pay them and WTF is public employees records laws? Good Grief! Let's see who the f'ups were.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/loc...cc4c03286.html

I don't see how the Board will end up being able to do anything - they would have to be able to actively disprove a valid doctor-patient relationship exists.

It's just a witch hunt.

[dellinger63]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Grocers Association is warning its members to be on the lookout for opponents of Gov. Scott Walker who are planning to deface some products in grocery stores on May 1.

Walker opponents have urged consumers to boycott companies that have donated to the governor's campaign. The Journal Sentinel says there's a current effort to expand the boycott nationally by placing stickers on products in grocery stores. Among the targeted products are Johnsonville brats, AngelSoft toilet paper, Sargento cheese and Coors beer.

The grocers group has created a sign for stores to post alerting people that placing stickers on products in stores is illegal.

http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/lates...lker-stickers/

Got half my shopping list done! Prefer Miller Lite but Colorado here I come.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

I don't see how the Board will end up being able to do anything - they would have to be able to actively disprove a valid doctor-patient relationship exists.

It's just a witch hunt.

and I want the witches identities. You know since they are 'public employees'.