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Thursday, April 7, 2011 1:20 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote: WAUKESHA, Wis. — A conservative-leaning Wisconsin county on Thursday corrected its count and gave 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 the votes weren't reported to The Associated Press on Tuesday due to "human error." "This is not a case of extra votes or extra ballots being found," she said. "This is human error, which I apologize for." 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.
Thursday, April 7, 2011 4:24 PM
KANEMAN
Friday, April 8, 2011 2:32 AM
Friday, April 8, 2011 3:16 PM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:Chris Abele - a 44-year-old philanthropist and political neophyte - handily defeated state Rep. Jeff Stone (R-Greendale) at the polls Tuesday to become the next Milwaukee County executive. Abele had 61% of the vote to 39% for Stone
Quote:Wisconsin Democrats have amassed enough support to force the first recall election of a Republican state senator who voted for a law that reduces public sector union powers, an organizer said on Friday. More than 20,000 residents from Republican state Senator Dan Kapanke's district around La Crosse, Wisconsin, signed petitions seeking a recall election, said Pat Scheller, who organized the committee. "There certainly has been a great groundswell of involvement and commitment," Scheller said in a telephone interview. "A lot of people are very passionate about this." A Kapanke representative could not be reached for comment.
Quote:Wisconsin Democrats said they have gathered enough signatures to recall a Republican senator because of his vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s bill that cuts most collective bargaining rights for state employees. Organizers on Thursday turned in more than the 15,629 signatures needed to start the recall for Fond du Lac Sen. Randy Hopper. They presented the Government Accountability Board with over 22,500 signatures to trigger a recall election. Hopper now joins a short list of senators with a realistic chance of losing a recall election.
Quote: Wisconsin Democrats collected nearly 22,561 signatures in their effort to recall Sen. Dan Kapanke. That's nearly 7,000 more than they needed to launch a recall, and insurance against efforts by Kapanke's lawyers to challenge and potentially throw out some of the collected signatures. In a sign of buyer's remorse among Wisconsin voters, the time it took gather enough signatures to recall Kapanke was the fastest in Wisconsin history. The next Wisconsin senator to face a recall effort is Republican Randy Hopper. In the Hopper recall effort, Sargent writes, progressives have collected almost 24,000 signatures—150 percent of the necessary 15,629 signatures, a staggering feat that comes scarcely a month after the Wisconsin Senate first passed Republican Governor Scott Walker's controversial anti-union bill.
Friday, April 8, 2011 3:28 PM
Quote:The clerk in a heavily Republican county reversed the election for a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice when she announced that she'd failed to hit "save" on her computer when reporting votes, and so had 14,315 extra ballots yet to be counted. Those votes went heavily in favor of Republican Justice David Prosser, putting him ahead of union-backed challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg by 7,582 votes after trailing her by only 204. Prosser hailed the new votes, but Kloppenburg supporters cried foul, pointing out that the clerk, Kathy Nickolaus, had worked in the Assembly Republican caucus when Prosser served as the Assembly speaker.
Friday, April 8, 2011 4:03 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Friday, April 8, 2011 4:10 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Give credit to the corporate party GOP folks. They've learned a few lessons since stealing Florida, in 2000 and Ohio in 2004. It's far easier to ' find' a bunch of votes, mysteriously entered into a standalone computer not hooked up to the voting system used by the rest of the state, and hope no one notices them, than it is to legitimately win an election.
Friday, April 8, 2011 4:30 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Give credit to the extreme far LEft wing moveon.org folks. They've learned a few lessons since trying to steal Florida, in 2000 and Washington in 2006. It's far easier to ' find' a bunch of votes, .... Fixed that for ya.
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Give credit to the extreme far LEft wing moveon.org folks. They've learned a few lessons since trying to steal Florida, in 2000 and Washington in 2006. It's far easier to ' find' a bunch of votes, ....
Friday, April 8, 2011 4:44 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Give credit to the extreme far LEft wing moveon.org folks. They've learned a few lessons since stealing Florida, in 2000 and Washington in 2006. It's far easier to ' find' a bunch of votes, .... Fixed that for ya. Fixed your false fix for ya.
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Give credit to the extreme far LEft wing moveon.org folks. They've learned a few lessons since stealing Florida, in 2000 and Washington in 2006. It's far easier to ' find' a bunch of votes, .... Fixed that for ya.
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Give credit to the extreme far LEft wing moveon.org folks. They've learned a few lessons since stealing Florida, in 2000 and Washington in 2006. It's far easier to ' find' a bunch of votes, ....
Friday, April 8, 2011 4:49 PM
Friday, April 8, 2011 5:08 PM
Friday, April 8, 2011 5:10 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2011/04/wisconsin_election_officials_t.html More scrutiny for those "found" votes.
Saturday, April 9, 2011 6:37 AM
Quote:After the first results were sent she said the county requested a second set of data because they wanted results tabulated in a certain format with fewer columns.
Quote:Nickolaus explained that when she got Brookfield's results the second time in the correct format, she failed to save it. So when she totaled the results for the unofficial final report Tuesday, Brookfield's total was not included and she didn't realize it. She discovered the error Wednesday when she transferred her data to a state computer program for the canvassers' review.
Quote:she failed to save on her computer and then report 14,315 votes in the city of Brookfield, omitting them entirely in an unofficial total she released after Tuesday's election.
Saturday, April 9, 2011 6:45 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: The fail is yours. Lick it up.
Quote:Give credit to the extreme far LEft wing moveon.org folks. They've learned a few lessons since stealing Florida, in 2000 and Washington in 2006. It's far easier to ' find' a bunch of votes, ....
Saturday, April 9, 2011 9:20 AM
Saturday, April 9, 2011 12:53 PM
Sunday, April 10, 2011 6:59 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: Oh, gawd (wipes tear); your mentality sometimes absolutely slays me!
Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:46 AM
JEWELSTAITEFAN
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Yeah, and the TEA party is losing support, huh? Crassic. Give credit to the worker's party folks. They've learned a few lessons since trying to steal Florida, in 2000. It's far easier to ' set aside' a bunch of votes, and hope no one finds them, than it is to phony up a stack of butterfly ballots. " I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
Saturday, April 16, 2011 5:12 PM
Quote:Originally posted by jewelstaitefan: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Yeah, and the TEA party is losing support, huh? Crassic. Give credit to the worker's party folks. They've learned a few lessons since trying to steal Florida, in 2000. It's far easier to ' set aside' a bunch of votes, and hope no one finds them, than it is to phony up a stack of butterfly ballots. " I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
Sunday, April 17, 2011 8:08 AM
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