Why Don't Republican Election Officials Ever Make "Errors" That Help Democrats?

[kpete]

TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT



When a GOP election official cites

"Human error," it seems that

The "error" --- for some reason ---

Never helps the Democrat.


http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12592

[shraby]

1. Not only that, but how many times has anyone seen a

Democrat making errors in the count?

[Mojeoux]

7. Too right that

Damn.

[Drale]

8. This is the they do it to argument

Remember after Gabby Giffords was attacked, all the right wingers saying that the left uses violent rhetoric as well? How many leaders on the left have been killed by right wing nuts vs how many leaders on the right have been killed by left wing nuts.

[rhett o rick]

2. I am going to have to think about that question? Hmmm. nm

[GKirk]

3. If it wasn't an error...

...did it help the GOP?

It obviously needs to be investigated.

How many ways can this play out?

If it was a purposeful mistake but in the end
it was the correct tabulation of votes, what would be the point?
It would only make the clerk look stupid.

If it was fabrication of votes shouldn't that be easy to tell?

[KittyWampus]

4. hmmmmmm.

[PeaceNikki]

5. The Waukesha County Clerk generating all of this discussion did a few years back

In the form of pre-marked ballots in the Democrats favor, I believe.

Well... correction. It was in printed in newspapers like that, not ACTUAL ballots sent to wards...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x856789

As reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,

Sample ballots printed for Waukesha County executive special election give voted unintended advice: who to vote for. Published in several newspapers this week (October 14th,2005) sample ballots promoting Tuesday’s contest between James Dwyer and Dan Vrakas include a mark signaling a vote for Dwyer.

The red-faced county clerk Kathy Nickolaus said, the gaffe occurred when her office sent some newspapers the same sample ballots that had been marked to test the voting machines. “It was human error” she said…. The tainted sample ballots are being published in newspapers in Brookfield, Menomonee Falls, Mukwanago and Sussex. Along with both candidates’ names and detailed instruction on how to complete a ballot, there it is — a hand drawn solid line designating a vote for Dwyer.

[buddysmellgood]

6. County clerks should all be CPAs. Think how embarrassed they would be to make mistakes like this.

[GKirk]

9. And all senators should be lawyers...

...maybe not.

[bemildred]

10. Is this a trick question? nt

[kenny blankenship]

11. There's nothing untoward or fishy: Democrats as a group are just very "accident prone"

when Republicans are doing the counting.

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. When every mistake you make favors you and your party, statistically

speaking, it's impossible. Bias is driving the bad judgment and that means you're crooked.

[ddeclue]

13. Why does FixedNew$ never "mistakenly" identify a Democrat in a scandal as a Republican?

[GeorgeGist]

14. How else will Obama win in 2012.

[Yo_Mama]

15. Well, actually, if you're thinking about WI

That's what Nickolaus' error did. Temporarily.