Wisconsin elections board officially orders recount
Source: Rockford Register Star
MILWAUKEE A recount request filed by state Sen. Van Wanggaard was approved Monday by Wisconsin election officials, who ordered Racine County officials to begin reviewing all of the nearly 72,000 ballots cast starting Wednesday.
Wanggaard requested a recount last week, three days after an official canvass showed him trailing Democratic challenger John Lehman by 834 votes. The margin represented 1.2 percent of the 71,868 ballots cast.
Democrats had called on the Republican incumbent to concede, saying a recount would only waste taxpayer money and delay the inevitable. But Wanggaards campaign said it was concerned about reports of voting
irregularities and wanted to ensure the outcome was accurate.
The result of the recount could be significant for several reasons.
Read more: http://www.rrstar.com/updates/x681118932/Wisconsin-elections-board-officially-orders-recount
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,370 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)The state senate is not scheduled to be in session until next year. So they're not getting anything done anyway.
The Republicans care because it would be harder to win the seat in November if their candidate had been recalled - there isn't any sort of legal barrier, but presumably "was successfully recalled" is not something a candidate wants on their resume.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,370 posts)As long as they aren't trying to eat up his term al la Franken.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)But some places don't have ballots to recount, they only have top secret machines controlled by RepubliCONS and foreign corporations. How will they count those or does this district have no machines?
I suspect the fix was in but somehow the rigged election just didn't give the RepubliCON enough votes.
Too bad Dems don't have the guts to recount.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)I mean machines that record votes only electronically, without a paper audit tape?
valerief
(53,235 posts)And we know how impossible it is to reprint paper to fit your needs.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)I guess no system that preserves voter anonymity could ever satisfy you.
BTW the electronic systems I've used allowed me to see the printed paper records of my votes.
Baitball Blogger
(46,787 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)We will see what the results are.
Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)Does that give us ground to call the other elections into question due to tampering?
Ghost of Huey Long
(322 posts)We really need a statewide hand recount, and someone independent watching the ballots until then.
postulater
(5,075 posts)No one will look at an individual ballot to count them.
My village uses Insight scanners. The clerk told me that they are tested twice before the election. And that's it. After the voting, only the total count of ballots on the machine is expected to match the number of ballots given out. The assumption is that the marks were counted correctly because of the two prior audits.
hue
(4,949 posts)hue
(4,949 posts)scroll down to view voting equipment by municipality. Racine is on pg. 121.
If we wanted a recount of the paper ballots that were fed into the scanners/counters a judge would have to order it I think.
Here is a link to a pic & description of Command Central: http://wcmcoop.com/members/meet-command-central-the-people-in-charge-of-wisconsin-voting-machines/
http://gab.wi.gov/elections-voting/voting-equipment/voting-equipment-use
hue
(4,949 posts)There is quite a history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting#Documented_problems
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Like about 1,000, with a 900+ vote advantage for the R?