(WI) Waukesha County clerk Nickolaus plans to use more secure ballot bags

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Waukesha County clerk Nickolaus plans to use more secure ballot bags



By Laurel Walker of the Journal Sentinel

July 12, 2011 1:18 p.m. |(36) Comments

Waukesha - ..................

She said the bags are made of tougher plastic and are comparable to bags used by banks, with an adhesive tape closing that would reveal signs of tampering. Ballots from individual polling places are bagged after they're counted on election night and stored either at municipal halls or with the county clerk until results are final and uncontested.

During the statewide recount this spring, in which Justice David Prosser's win over Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg was affirmed by a 7,004-vote margin, poorly sealed ballot bags were a common problem. Some saw the gaps as evidence of potential tampering; others said it only showed that poll workers had difficulty cinching overstuffed bags with plastic straps.

Nickolaus said with the new bags, "the poll worker doesn't have to try and work a plastic seal around the bag."

Nickolaus showed off the sample bag at last week's annual convention of county clerks in Rusk County and many responded favorably, she said..........................

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She should put her head in the bag and be ashamed of her incompetence.

have provided for you....

How's that supposed to help? This was election fraud, not voter fraud. o_O Still assuming it's voter fraud.

Repugs and their Elite sponsors have done nothing but stolen elections from

one end of the country to the other -- not to mention the Supreme Court ---

Alan Grayson was talking today about the gerrymandring in Florida -- but Repugs

do this only for the fun of it -- right?


Rememeber Don Siegelman -- ? Even as much as they have corrupt politics on their

side in Alabama -- Don Siegelman was still a huge threat to them!!


On and on, on and ON ... You know the song -- !!

.... have everything rigged to their satisfaction! Guaranteed to fail at the appropriate time when they need another 14K votes!

they are opened by unauthorized people, or at the wrong time, they have purple explosions.

Just imagine of all the purple-faced repubs running around!

Of course the bags are not the problem. We are not stupid.