Federal probe, full recount required in high court race (WI)....

[iwishiwas]

YES< get that personal computer NOW.

Why did she wait so long to announce the error?



http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/article_be206ecd-4b8d-571a-9fa2-cb4e5bf8e668.html

Scandal in Fitzwalkerstan: Federal probe, full recount required in high court race

Scandal in Fitzwalkerstan: Federal probe, full recount required in high court race
Cap Times editorial madison.com | (56) Comments | Posted: Friday, April 8, 2011 11:45 am



...............Nickolaus claims that it was “human error” that caused her to “lose” the Brookfield results on her personal computer where she had secreted away the data. Yet, she apparently knew of the “mistake” for 29 hours before reporting it and then handed the information off to conservative bloggers and talk-radio personalities.

But what is most important to note are the numbers. With Walker’s candidate, Justice David Prosser, essentially tied with his independence-and-integrity challenger, Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg, it was all but certain that a recount would be required. And the final unofficial count, as tabulated Wednesday afternoon, put Kloppenburg ahead by several hundred votes, giving the challenger an advantage going into the count.

Then, two days after the election, Nickolaus found the 7,582 votes needed to put Prosser outside the zone of a state-funded official recount.

Former Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager says the developments require inquiry and explanation. She’s right.
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That’s appropriate. But these requests do not go far enough.
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The circumstance lends legitimacy to the call by the advocacy group Citizen Action of Wisconsin for “an immediate federal investigation and immediate impoundment of all computer equipment, ballots, and other relevant evidence needed to verify a fair vote count in Waukesha County.” Citizen Action says this investigation should include an accounting of all communications by “Kathy Nickolaus and anyone in the Waukesha clerk’s office with all outside actors, and all interested parties to the election dispute.”

It also demands a full recount, no matter what the ultimate margin of victory or defeat. Whether David Prosser or JoAnne Kloppenburg is elected, the only way that the high court will retain even a shred of credibility is if every ballot is recounted, every tabulation is reviewed and every citizen is certain that this election was legitimate.

[monmouth]

1. Thanks for a most informative post. Glad they're staying on top of this...n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Damn right.

I'm heartened to see that a Federal probe will happen.

Recommended.

[GKirk]

3. Is that what the link said?

I was getting the impression that was the writer's opinion that a recount was required.
Which is obvious but far from a done deal at this point.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. I found this link in LBN:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4806515

[mistertrickster]

4. Holy Crapoly . . . this is so obviously election fraud,

"it's not even good nonsense."

[blm]

5. EVERY machine needs to be secured NOW, and not just Waukesha. It's naive to think that ONLY Waukesha

was tampered with - the GOP zealots already proved they'll do anything to steal elections.

[JDPriestly]

6. The most suspicious thing is the change in voting results in Milwaukee County

Waukesha is not really such a problem in my view.

[murielm99]

7. It has to be investigated.

I think this is just a dry run for the state senate recall elections. If they can get away with this, they can steal those elections, too, and keep the repuke senators in office.

I wondered why Walker and his evil little minions had been so quiet over the last few days. This is what they were hatching.

They need to subpoena everyone's phone records, too. I wonder who that woman spoke to in the days and hours leading up to the "found" ballots.

[Blue Owl]

8. Look at that fucking Walker administration

Is there an honest or even remotely ethical soul anywhere in the whole crooked gang?

[Mnemosyne]

9. K&R for truth. n/t