WI Election...If it goes to the Supreme Court w/ Prosser...does he have to recuse himself?

[Snoutport]

What if all of this goes to the Supreme Court? If Prosser steps aside for the case it is a split court. If he stayed on...well...he wouldn't do that would he?

What is the next step if the case is split?

[AngryAmish]

1. no

Has he made any statements about the case?

[buddysmellgood]

2. He would have to recuse as would Gableman who campaigned actively for Prosser.

[Imajika]

3. What case?

Why are people assuming there is a "case"?

The votes from Brookfield either exist or they don't, correct?

They will finish the canvass and recount the votes, if the recount matches the certified totals that is pretty much it.

Do people want to exclude Brookfield voters or something?

There is going to be a recount and we will know if the certified totals are correct once it is done, until then I think it is ridiculous to claim voter/election fraud or suggest that there is a "case".

[elocs]

4. A tally on a computer is not the same as physical paper ballots that can be touched and recounted.

So either the actual ballots exist or they don't. If there is no paper trail to back up that tally, then it's just numbers.

[Imajika]

7. But there IS a paper trail..

And Brookfield's votes WERE reported to the media on election night.

http://brookfield-wi.patch.com/articles/brookfield-gives-prosser-nearly-11k-votes

Due to gross negligence or utter incompetence, Nickolaus did not include these votes in the overall totals originally reported out - but the votes DO exist. Brookfield residents DID vote and there is a record of those votes and a paper trail.

It will not be hard to recount everything and double check, and my understanding is there IS a paper trail in Wisconsin.

[elocs]

8. Wisconsin law requires a paper trail and a tally on a computer means nothing without the paper trail

to back it up. That's the whole point of having a paper trail.

[Imajika]

9. Yes, and we have a paper trail to go check...

So we verify the vote totals from Brookfield and elsewhere. If those totals are what are being reported in the final canvass, then there isn't much more that can be done.

You can't exclude Brookfield because some incompetent county clerk didn't included that city's totals in to the originally reported count.

[damntexdem]

5. Hey, when there are lawyers involved, there's a case.

I'd be surprised if it doesn't end up in court one way or another.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

6. Pretty sure I read that he has the OPTION to recuse himself

- how dumb is that?? I'll dig and see if I can find it

[Snoutport]

10. Wouldn't that just take the cake if he somehow got to judge his own election

And if there is a way, I'd guess they would try to ram it through.