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Thursday, April 7, 2011
Wisconsin Supreme Court: Everyone Is Going To Be Pissed
When you have a news organization who runs on deadlines make political calls of elections, you are not always going to have a perfect record and you get burned. This has been played out in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election as the AP yesterday said that JoAnne Kloppenberg won the election by about 200 votes. She immediately claimed victory and said she had a mandate, all from what the AP said. Well, today, it turns out the actual vote counters are coming up with a different total than the AP. About 8000 votes, it turns out. From jsonline: David Prosser gained about 7,582 votes in Waukesha County because of a counting error, Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced this afternoon. Canvassers around the state were updating their totals Thursday, with Prosser and JoAnne Kloppenburg each making gains. Waukesha County's board of canvassers just met in the county courthouse in Waukesha. It was earlier reported that David Prosser picked up 200 votes in New Berlin after a clerical error was discovered, according to Pat Karcher, a member of the board of canvassers in Waukesha County. Karcher spoke during a break in the canvassers meeting. The error occurred in Ward 12, where a vote for Prosser was reported as 37 but the tape revealed 237 votes for Prosser. http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/119424759.html How you make a 8000 vote mistake, I have no idea. But I guess that happens. It also makes you wonder about other elections in the State of Wisconsin. I guess the liberals are going to go berserk, riot in Madison and yell about how an election was stolen. Well, maybe 2 out of 3. I kind of feel sorry for them, but that is what happens when you rely on the media to do the jobs of people who were elected and hired to do this kind of work.
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Dan, ever read FreeRepublic? Over there, they were following the election with rapt interest. I couldn't even keep up with the number of posts. It went well past 2500 posts by the time it was done.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, they posted nearly every precinct update, crowing whenever Prosser was ahead, kvetching whenever Kloppenberg was. WELL before it was over, they were crying "voter fraud." Over and over again. Today, after the thousands of votes were "found," I went there and they're all laughing, and back-slapping, and sighing in relief. NONE of them is saying it could be voter fraud, curiously.
But if this had gone the other way? It would be the lead story on FOX "News" and you know it: "8000 Democrat votes found in Wisconsin. . .but were they STOLEN??? Next up on FOX!"
In the past, few elections were decided by such narrow margins. Getting the count close was good enough. Those days are gone now and the election officials need to do a very accurate job of counting votes and reporting them. Otherwise we lose confidence in the process and that hurts all of us.
ReplyDeleteJamie, i understandf your position and I really don't blamre liberals for being pissed. If the reverse was true, I'd be pissed as well. But I am also mature enough to look at all the evidence.
ReplyDeleteI even understand that liberals blaming Walker for fraud.
But I come back to the very basic thing: The Democrat of the County involved said, and is sticking to her story, that this was a legitimate mistake.
If she was throwing a fit, yes and said there was foul play, then there would be some questions, but that is not the case.
And God bless the Democrat involved is truly a hero. I am sure her democratic "friends" are saying she is a Judas and is probably receiving nasty phone calls and maybe threats, all for being honest.
And to anon, you very correct
I'm not going to claim it was fraud, because I have no idea. But it does turn out that the Republican lady in charge of the particular election where the votes were lost? She's had "errors" like this in the past, something like four or five different elections with big errors under her watch. I think she needs a new vocation.
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