Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
I'm just looking at the AP county by county, which has had some errors tonight, but my best take on Wisconsin is that this might end up a near tie. Could be just 200 vote margin. Prosser is ahead by 1650 or so votes with 97% in. But there are a cluster of precincts out in Democratic Eau Claire and Milwaukee counties, so the Prosser lead will likely close and it is possible Kloppenburg will pull a few hundred votes ahead. There is some Prosser vote still out as well, hopefully a decent amount in GOP leaning Marathon country. Though my guess is not enough to stop Prosser's lead from closing at least a little. Just not sure what parts of Marathon county are out and what the loose Milwaukee precincts are. Best case is Prosser pushes up toward 2000+ votes.
So the Wisconsin battle continues, most likely to a recount. See you on the courthouse steps. Get your bullhorns ready.
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Jun '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
Was SEIU involved in gathering or tabulating the vote count? If there's a recount will they be conducting the recount as they did in the attorney general's race in California?
Dec '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
I am really sick to death of this pattern.
They get the race close with lies, wait to report the last of their precincts until after their opponent has posted theirs (so they can stuff if needs be), and then force a recount where they always magically find enough ballots to win by a slim margin.
It happens so often that the sequence of events might as well be written in a damned play book.
What do we do friends, when elections don't matter any more?
'Cause we are quickly approaching that point.
You watch. He'll end the day up by 500 or so, and then by the end of the recount (where they "find" ballots hither and yon), the liberal gal will be up my a similar amount. The liberal Sec State will then certify the election recount results lickity split, and Bob's your uncle (AKA, the libs win and the taxpayers get hosed again).
They lie, they cheat, and they steal, no matter what it is they're actually doing.
Aug '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
A recount. Great.
Coleman in Minnesota, Gregoire in Washington....
Republicans have a pathetic track record in the corrupted recount game. It's amazing how they sit on their hands as the Democrats miraculously seem to find missing 'misplaced' boxes of ballots in the strangest places and how those 'found' ballots shift the election result in defiance of probability and statistics.
Democrats play for blood, rules and laws be damned. Why is so hard to the GOP to learn this lesson?
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
How honest is the electoral operation in Wisconsin?
Aug '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
For over ten years, Americans have been split down the middle. Remember Bush-Gore? The razor-thin margins in Florida? The spineless inability of the American people to form a clear majority is the root cause of our ills, and it invites corruption. It's easy then to turn an election with a few hundred votes.
May '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
Too bad the GOP in Wisconsin didn't take the opportunity to ram through "Voter ID" when the Senate Democrats tool a walk. They will rue letting that crisis go to waste.
May '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
Recall the Milwaukee Democrats who slashed tires to thwart Republican get-out-the-vote efforts in 2004.
Nov '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
My personal experience is that Milwaukee elections were riddled with fraud at the ground level. I can't imagine that it gets any better at the macro, statewide level.
Sep '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
It would have been held up by some leftist judge, same as the budget repair bill. And even if it had passed smoothly without legal challenges, the implementation would take several months before they could "go live" in an actual election.
Sep '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
We don't have voter ID, and you're allowed to register on the same day you vote. Just bring a piece of mail with an address from the district, and have an SEIU goon "vouch" for you and go mark your ballot for Kloppenburg.
John Fund has written extensively on the corruption of our elections.
Jul '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
The fact that these election shenanigans go on again and again without outcry shows as a nation we fundamentally do not take elections seriously. Until we get serious about them and outraged at electoral fraud, it's going to keep happening like a broken record. It's embarrassing to see some parts of the US with electoral processes that make Third World elections appear clean and transparent by comparison.
May '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
A Hot Air commenter (shamelessly ripped off for my FB status): "Get stuffing those ballot boxes, lizard people! Make like Laverne and Shirley on the Blatz assembly line."
But really, Mike, even if we lose the recount, this was the high water mark for the union vote in Wisconsin, and therefore the nation. They were energized, organized and the rest of the voters were sleepy.
And the best they could manage was almost a tie, if they cheat a little. Remind me never to be scared of unions again. They are finished.
Sep '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
5 wards left to count and miraculously the AP has Kloppenburg now leading by 369 votes.
Nov '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
With 99.7% of the vote in (10 precincts still out) Klopper is only 140 votes ahead. I bet they are searching car trunks, chicken coops, and rest room stalls for additional votes to give her a more comfortable margin. And this is a judicial election.
Now 447 for Klop with 5 still out.
Lead shrinks to 311 with the same 5 precincts still out. One is Prosser precinct (Jefferson county), the other 4 are Milwaukee which went 57% for Klop (so far).
Klop lead down to 240 and Jefferson County is not in yet. Two Milwaukee precincts still out.
The answer to Professor Rahe’s question is that there are Democrats in Wisconsin so it’s not an honest process. It’s not honest anywhere there are Democrats and the election is close. They will always find ways to create enough votes to get them over the top. The only time they can’t cheat is when Republicans win by a large margin. Puts Republicans at a bit of a disadvantage.
Edited on Apr 6, 2011 at 8:39amAug '10
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Alas, this will be headed to the courts. How can the Wisconsin Supreme Court deal with it, beyond the obvious recusal?
Nov '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
Ann Althouse says:
...I think a Kloppenburg victory will be a disaster. Her supporters and her opponents expect her to vote to undo the legislation of the Republican majority that won decisively in the November election. If she proceeds to decide cases that way, people — including her supporters — won't believe that her vote was properly judicial, and the decision against the legislation will look like the court abused its power. How then will the court retain its prestige? If the people do not believe that the court is a court, then we will not have a workable system of separated powers in our state government.
Althouse also is suspicious of those precincts that are so late in getting their report in. Were they waiting to see how many votes they needed to find?
Edited on Apr 6, 2011 at 8:41amNov '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
All but one precinct in Jefferson County has now reported with Klop ahead by 235. Jefferson is a Prosser district where so far he got 58% of the vote. Hope?
Edited on Apr 6, 2011 at 10:03amMay '10
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I repeat. When the national party is effectively AWOL, the unions always win the GOTV.
I strongly disagreed with the national party's priorities here and its wrong-headed (in my view) assessment of the strategic significance of this vote. The only comfort I see is that that the fact that this wasn't a runaway may help to reassure the wavering GOP senators that they can re-vote and not be killed.
But I am tired of the national party always assuming that the only important issue out here in flyover world is raising money for the presidential campaigns.
Sep '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
TeeJaw: All but one precinct in Jefferson County has now reported with Klop ahead by 235. Jefferson is a Prosser district where so far he got 58% of the vote. Hope? · Apr 6 at 10:02am
Edited on Apr 06 at 10:03 am
I just researched the vote from that district (Lake Mills) from 2010.
Walker won 1,228 to 1,140.
Sep '10
Re: Get Ready for a Recount in Wisconsin
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TeeJaw: All but one precinct in Jefferson County has now reported with Klop ahead by 235. Jefferson is a Prosser district where so far he got 58% of the vote. Hope? · Apr 6 at 10:02am
Edited on Apr 06 at 10:03 am
I just researched the vote from that district (Lake Mills) from 2010.
Walker won 1,228 to 1,140.
· Apr 6 at 10:25am
And I just realized the results from the primary are also available. Keep in mind this primary election took place before $3+ million of union money was carpet bombed across the state.
Lake Mills primary results:
Prosser: 241
Kloppenburg: 91
Two other liberals: 63