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BradBlog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 11:27 PM
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WI G.A.B. Failed to Review Minutes From Waukesha 'Recount' Before Certifying Sup. Court Election
Source: BRAD BLOG



EXCLUSIVE: WI State Election Board Failed to Review Minutes From Waukesha County 'Recount' Before Certifying Supreme Court Election Results
Mountains of irregularities, more than 800 official exhibits, and objections by candidate's attorneys never examined by top state election authority before razor-thin results for 10-year seat on state's high court certified as 'correct'...

Last Monday, May 23rd, Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board (G.A.B.), the state's top election agency, officially certified the controversial results of the extraordinarily close April 5th statewide Supreme Court election and its subsequent "recount".

However, as The BRAD BLOG has learned, the agency certified those results without reviewing hundreds of official exhibits documenting wholesale ballot irregularities, on-the-record objections from the attorneys of the candidate who filed for the "recount", and thousands of pages of official transcripts and minutes documenting the entire "recount" process from the election's most controversial county.

Even more alarming, the agency doesn't even yet have a copy of the hundreds, if not thousands of pages which make up the official minutes documenting the nearly month-long "recount" from Waukesha County --- the last of the state's 72 counties to complete their count, and by far the most controversial county following the late discovery there of some 14,000 votes not included in the county's original Election Night results.

Indeed, the G.A.B. admits, they may not even have those minutes for another two weeks, despite the already-issued certification of the election results, and despite the fact that the statutory deadline for a candidate to file a challenge to those certified results in court is tomorrow (Tuesday).

The official minutes from most of the other 71 counties, as documented during the "recount" of the razor-thin, highly contentious election for a 10-year term on the state's high court between incumbent Republican Justice David Prosser and his independent challenger Asst. Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg, have been posted on the G.A.B.'s website for some time, with the 71st, Milwaukee County, finally posted late last week.

With Kloppenburg set to announce her decision on whether to seek a judicial review tomorrow, Waukesha's lengthy and detailed minutes are not posted for public review with all of the others, despite massive and alarming irregularities discovered during the "recount" process there over the past month (see here, here, and here for just a few of many examples), because the G.A.B. has not been given them by the county, as state officials conceded during phone conversations late last week...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8545


Read more: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8545
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postulater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 11:52 PM
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1. Looks like one more reason for Kloppenburg to contest the outcome.
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BradBlog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 12:25 AM
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5. She will announce decision tomorrow (Tuesday). Now's a good time to make noise w/ this! (n/t)
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wordpix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 07:38 AM
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27. Go for it, Kloppenburg! This is outrageous & they can't get away with it
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SoapBox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 12:11 AM
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2. How the hell can this be?
...it stinks...it smells...it certainly appears rotten to the core.

And they certified the guy?!?

Sheesh...hope she files to contest. Of course, if and when it ever got to the Supreme Court, we know what the FiveActivistJudges would do.
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BradBlog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 01:16 AM
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6. Its Wisconsin. (n/t)
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 03:22 AM
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16. Not as bad as Ohio....nt
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eowyn_of_rohan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 08:00 AM
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30. Well at one time that was true. Not now!
Our GAB is as bad as Blackwell.
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road2000 Donating Member (995 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:50 AM
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43. It would be interesting if it got to SCOTUS,
which has already made clear that Bush v. Gore can not be used as precedent.

... But I'm sure they'd manage to find a way around that.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 06:33 PM
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51. 4 activist judges (i.e. crooks) on the WI SC.
Prosser will not recuse himself--anybody wanna bet?
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 12:20 AM
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3. We're up shit's creek.
But, at least, with folks like you...we have a paddle.

Thanks, Brad.

Wilms

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BradBlog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 12:24 AM
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4. Wait that means...
...Okay. I'll be the paddle. But someone's gonna pay for this!

Thanks, Wilms.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:05 AM
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32. I hope you're right, honey. I've seen people walk away from this
sort of thing too often to have real hope but she seems stand up. I hope she does.

Thank you, Brad. You do us all a great service.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 01:24 AM
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7. This the GAB we were told to have faith in?
Because I am not feeling particularly faithful.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 01:41 AM
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8. Deleted message
Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.
 
murielm99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 02:17 AM
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10. Thanks for reposting that.
We can draw our own conclusions about the post and its replies.
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 02:26 AM
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14. See comment #13. n/t
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 02:25 AM
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13. You know darn well that OP had to do w/ the Brookfield numbers on election nite, not the recount.
Shame on you! :)

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BradBlog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 02:29 AM
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15. FYI...
FYI... I was among the first to report very early on about the election night results published independently from the city of Brookfield.

That said, if you haven't read my reporting on this story since then, you may wish to check it out. The story linked in the OP is a good place to start.
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Cieran_WI Donating Member (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 01:47 AM
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9. Brad, may I repost this on Daily Kos?
I don't see this story on there, as of yet.
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BradBlog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 02:24 AM
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12. Absolutely, Ceiran
I don't write over there. So, yes, please post!! Make noise!!
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tinwi Donating Member (47 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 04:33 AM
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17. good idea I do not see this story anywhere but FB
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 02:21 AM
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11. Someone should ask for U.N. election observers
in the future. Nothing says "Third World" quite like a democratic nation that seems incapable of holding an honest election.
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RedRoses323 Donating Member (175 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 05:20 AM
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19. +1
:kick:
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glinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 06:32 PM
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50. Agree 100%
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avebury Donating Member (455 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 05:20 AM
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18. K&R
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sulphurdunn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 05:37 AM
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20. Kloppenburg was screwed
the minute she agreed to play the recount game rather than demand a state and federal fraud investigation of the late returns from Waukesha County.
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 06:00 AM
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21. You can help Today!!!
Edited on Tue May-31-11 06:26 AM by Scuba
May 31st is a huge chance for Wisconsin to take a major step in taking back our state.

There are three events converging that, if all happen, We the People can make a difference!! This trifecta of opportunity is a gift from the heavens! BUT WE NEED YOU TO HELP! PLEASE PASS THE WORD! WE THE PEOPLE CAN DO THIS!

1. Email Joanne Kloppenburg and tell her to file suit to investigate further the election fraud found at the recount. This will temporarily stop Prosser from being judge and force an investigation.
campaign@kloppenburgforjustice.com

See some of our evidence:https://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&¬e_id=101501...

Or read her complaint:https://www.facebook.com/note.php?created&¬e_id=1015...

2. CALL Dane County District Attorney Ismael R. Ozanne on Tuesday May 31 and URGE him file suit for Segway Jeremy Ryan's Open Meetings violation. (608) 266-4211 This will stop the voter suppression bill from becoming law for 20 days, which will give us more time to education and demand what is rightfully ours!

3. File a complaint with the GAB about the election fraud we found. Look here for the template letter and send to GAB and your legislators and 1000 of your closets friends to education them.


https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150190696331403


In the subject line: MESSAGE TO THE BOARD

CC
kevin.kennedy@wi.gov
richard.bohringer@wi.gov
jonathan.becker@wi.gov
dennis.morvak@wi.gov
tracey.porter@wi.gov
cindy.kreckow@wi.gov
nathan.judnic@wi.gov

4. SEND TO EVERYONE AND ANYONE YOU THINK WILL HELP US GET THE WORD OUT!
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Ed Suspicious Donating Member (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 06:19 AM
Response to Reply #21
22. All of your facebook links got trunkated and aren't working. n/t
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 06:26 AM
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23. Fixed, thanks.
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 06:55 AM
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24. If us non Wisconsinites call Dane Co. DA
and file a complaint with the GAB, will our words carry any weight? After all, theoretically, we have nothing to do with Wisconsin state politics and that is what this is, although it certainly has national implications. I ask because one of my best friends ever lives up there and has been very involved with this campaign to set things straight and I would like to help out, even if it's minimal. Peace to you and good luck to you and all Wiconsinites.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 07:15 AM
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25. Laws are only for democrats and the working poor to obey in this
new BushCo "reality" created by outlaws, for outlaws.
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Yon_Yonson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 07:29 AM
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26. Nothing and I repeat nothing surprises me about the GAB
The GAB clowns are nothing more than NEOCON political hacks and they should all be sacked! I just hope that JoAnn Kloppenburg challenges the recount decision.

I shall be filling a complaint.
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wordpix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 07:40 AM
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28. I gathered that after reading about their utter failure to do their jobs. They should be questioned
by a grand jury
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Yon_Yonson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 07:33 AM
Response to Reply #28
54. Grand Jury sounds like a plan to me
Who has to make the first move on such a course of action?
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fasttense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 07:58 AM
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29. What a joke.
Not so much a recount as a junta asserting their control to rig any election they want. If this is happening in WI, where else is it happening? I would think a Democratic President would be real concerned about rigged elections and fake ballot counting and re-counting. How does he expect to win any election in a state that rigs and corrupts its election counts?
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blackspade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 08:35 AM
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31. The nasty whiff of corruption lingers in the air on this one!
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bertman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:28 AM
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33. Thank you for your vigilance and reporting on this issue, Brad. REC. nt
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sybylla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:30 AM
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34. GAB CORRUPTION: MY EYE WITNESS ACCOUNT AND COMPLAINT to the GAB BOARD
The following is from a post by Barbara With made on Facebook of her entire complaint...
http://www.facebook.com/notes/barbara-with/gab-corruption-my-eye-witness-account-and-complaint-to-the-gab-board/10150190013301403



...My first experience was observing Milwaukee County. In the City and South Suburbs of Milwaukee, all materials from each ward were processed together by the same poll workers. I could observe every step and see all the evidence first hand: envelopes, poll books, matched seals, matched absentees, matched envelopes, etc. The majority of what I saw matched, the recount ran smoothly, disputes were small and the poll workers and observers solved the problems together, and for the most part, all workers all followed one basic process.

On arrival at Waukesha, I found exactly the opposite: All elements of the ward were pulled apart; some people had the poll books; others had the ballots. No one table of poll workers or observers ever saw all the elements of one county in one place. When they brought bags to the tables with mismatched seals and large gaping holes big enough to put ballots through, we had to take someone's word for the fact that this gross abuse of the handling of our votes was being recorded, and whomever was responsible for this horrific neglect for their safety would eventually be held accountable. But by pulling apart all the element of the districts, they made it impossible, as an observer, to corroborate anything from any district, as we had in the city of Milwaukee.

In the south suburbs and city of Milwaukee, we all sat together at tables, two poll workers and two observers. In Waukesha, they had blue lines on the floor you couldn't cross if you didn't have the right tags, and there were yellow barricades between the observers and poll workers, making it harder for observers to see. Only the head clerks were allowed to put all the elements of the ward together. I do not know still if any of all the evidence of fraud even got entered into the records from Waukesha. (As of this writing May 31, Waukesha still has not posted it's minutes.) The process of how to do the recount changed every day. I never once saw a ballot bag resealed and renumbered. Ballots were thrown into bins and taken away to, somewhere? I never knew where they went or if they ever all got resealed, but what I saw observing how they were treating my vote made me literally nauseous every day.

At the time, my impression was that this was why Waukesha was taking so long. Waukesha’s processes seemed purposefully confusing and created circumstances that could hide any fraud....



also posted in the Wisconsin forum: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=186x34051
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socialist_n_TN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:51 AM
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35. Sincere good luck to all you Wisconsintes
in this matter, but I'm not sure what good anything will do. It looks like the PTBs have made up thier minds that Prosser won this race and to hell with any other outcome. Of course, this is also going to cast a fog of suspicion over any statewide RECALL election (Walker next year) and, in my mind, I'd be suspicious even about the senatorial recall elections, ESPECIALLY in areas where there's a Republican county authority.



For future reference, I hope people remember this when there's a choice between more militant options (general and wildcat strikes) and reformist politics, otherwise known as elections. BOTH could have been done, but when "cooler heads" prevail and all the eggs are in the recall basket, NOTHING winds up changing.
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BetterThanNoSN Donating Member (122 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:59 AM
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36. uh huh...
you can bet that state agency(GAB)is republican run. these douches will certify one of their own with little regard for election fairness or discrepancies.
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:06 AM
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37. Thank you Brad for keeping us informed of this VERY important issue.
:toast:
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:06 AM
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38. Thank you Brad for keeping us informed of this VERY important issue.
:toast:
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pleah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:06 AM
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39. K&R
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:22 AM
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40. K&r. Thanks for covering this. This is how they took our nation. And people just don't seem to
want to see.
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Zambero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:27 AM
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41. Utter contempt for the election process
Whatever happened to transparency and accountability? Heads need to roll over this.
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:40 AM
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42. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, BradBlog.
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Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 11:04 AM
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44. K&R
Prosser can take his tainted "victory" to hell with him.
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Courtesy Flush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 11:16 AM
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45. The most shocking part of the story is
that Wisconsin HAS a Government Accountability Board!
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 11:59 AM
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46. Looks to me the GAB board members need to be removed.
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emlev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 03:30 PM
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47. Still relevant even in light of Kloppenburg's decision not to go to court n/t
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druidity33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 05:47 PM
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48. My impression was
that despite the irregularities, the margin would still have been well over 10,000 votes in Prosser's favor... so why is it a razor thin victory? Personally, i think there should be an entirely new election as this one was fucked from the start, but assuming we're willing to include those 14,000 "missing" votes, how could Kloppenburg have possibly won?


:shrug:


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GeorgeGist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 06:01 PM
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49. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance ...
baffle them with bullshit.
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farscape Donating Member (12 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 06:54 PM
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52. Our fault
Had all the Liberals/Dems voted we wouldn't be having this discussion. SO many still sat home. Inthis America, there is zero excuse for Liberals not voting. 80% is just not good enough. If you are dead, then crawl out of the grave and vote.
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bertman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:27 PM
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53. Given all of these violations and 'irregularities' why in hell did Kloppenburg concede?
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Yon_Yonson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 07:37 AM
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55. I was a Kloppenburg volunteer and it is a mystery to me!
If it had been up to me I would have dragged this process out till the Wisconsin cows came home! Too many unanswered questions and I think the devil is in the details.
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bertman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 01:22 PM
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56. I agree Yon_Yonson. Something doesn't add up.
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