Consider this:

The Dane County Clerk's Office holds a press conference on Thursday to announce that the vote tally for a city had been omitted from the unofficial total released on Tuesday night.

The corrected tally includes 14,315 votes - 10,859 more votes for JoAnne Kloppenburg and 3,456 more votes for Justice David Prosser. Republicans involved in the canvassing vouch for the integrity of the process and the count.

It would be a dramatic turn of events. No question about it.

How would the Left react?

They wouldn't cry, "Call in the Feds."



They'd say, "This is what democracy looks like" and dance in the streets and bring out the drums.

They certainly wouldn't be calling for a federal investigation.

Kloppenburg would probably hold another press conference and yap about being "ecstatic."

Michael Moore, of course, would be singing the praises of the Dane County voters.

Instead, because the discovery of the vote tally error and the corrected total hurts union puppet Kloppenburg, Moore is throwing a fit.

He's calling on Obama to impound the ballots.



Moore and the band of Leftist lemmings are completely disregarding reality.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

"Wisconsin voters as well as the Kloppenburg (campaign) deserve a full explanation of how and why these 14,000 votes from an entire city were missed. To that end, we will be filing open records requests for all relevant documentation related to the reporting of election results in Waukesha County, as well as to the discovery and reporting of the errors announced by the county," Kloppenburg campaign manager Melissa Mulliken said in a statement.

Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) raised the possibility of an independent investigation over the recovery of the votes.

"This is a serious breach of election procedure," he said. "We're going to look further. She waited 24 hours to work this. And she waited until after she verified the results, making it that much more difficult to challenge and verify the results."

But at the news conference with Nickolaus, Ramona Kitzinger, the Democrat on the Waukesha County Board of Canvassers, said: "We went over everything and made sure all the numbers jibed up and they did. Those numbers jibed up, and we're satisfied they're correct."

As a Democrat, she said, "I'm not going to stand here and tell you something that's not true."

Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas, who sat in on Nickolaus' news conference, said voters can be confident in the results because "all the votes are in that office. If anyone wants to look at them and verify, they can."

Kristine Schmidt, the clerk in the city of Brookfield, said in a separate interview that she shared the results with the news media on election night.

She said she also sent the results twice to the county. After the first results were sent she said the county requested a second set of data because they wanted results tabulated in a certain format with fewer columns.

"We sent it to the county and called the county to make sure they got it," Schmidt said.

There should be a record that Brookfield's results were shared with the news media on election night. That should put this notion to rest that votes were "found."

Unfortunately, admitting that would require a sense of honor on the part of Kloppenburg and the Left. That's what's missing. That's what needs to be "found."

The fact that Dan Vrakas is inviting scrutiny should quell outrage on the Left, but it won't. They don't lose well. Tantrums are part of the routine.

Let the lawyers swoop in and examine the ballots. We don't have hanging chads and butterfly ballots here. Investigate. No problem.

However, there's no reason to involve the feds in our state election. I resent Moore's suggestion that the Obama administration should impound the ballots. This is not a national election. It's purely Wisconsin, our Supreme Court.

Then there's Ramona Kitzinger, a Democrat. Is she a liar? Michael Moore and the unhinged Leftists are completely disregarding her comments. She's an inconvenient player in this.

It's to be expected that Moore and company are flipping out. It was inevitable that they would smear Kathy Nickolaus. (I guess they'll have to smear Kitzinger, too.)

I just hope all the crazed rhetoric doesn't translate into Katherine Windels-style threats, or worse.

I'm sure Kathy Nickolaus is truly sorry. Why would she invite all the criticism and ridicule she's receiving? Does anyone really think she's enjoying this nightmare?

Certainly, it's a personal embarrassment. The poor woman must be a mess.

Given the current political climate and the thuggery exhibited by the unions and their minions, if I were Nickolaus, I'd be fearing for my safety.

What we absolutely must have in Wisconsin is confidence in our elections.

Human error will always be a possibility. Usually, it's not on such a grand scale as in this case, but mistakes happen. Mistakes were made in other counties as well.

What we can do is make it more difficult to commit voter fraud in Wisconsin. We need to have voter photo ID.

I wonder how many fraudulent Kloppenburg votes were cast in this race. Dozens? Hundreds? More?

Let's check every single same-day registration voter. Verify them. Investigate them.

Wisconsin has to stop being a haven for voter fraud.

Then maybe Michael Moore and the union bosses will take their hysterics and thuggery elsewhere.

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UPDATE, April 12, 2011: Victor Weers calls for Kathy Nickolaus to resign.
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Everyone makes mistakes. EVERYONE.

Most mistakes are relatively private. They certainly don't require a press conference. Others happen on a huge stage.

Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus had to acknowledge a big, big mistake.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

David Prosser gained 7,582 votes in Waukesha County, after a major counting error of Brookfield results was detected, County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced in a stunning development this afternoon.

Nickolaus says the reason for the big change is that data transmitted from the City of Brookfield was imported but that she failed to save those results to the database. Brookfield cast 14,315 votes on April 5 -- 10,859 of those votes went to Prosser and 3,456 went to JoAnne Kloppenburg.

"The purpose of the canvass is to catch these kind of mistakes," Nickolaus said. She called it human error that is "common in this process." "I apologize," Nickolaus said.

What can you say about Nickolaus' mistake?

It was an error that was caught and corrected. That's the purpose of the canvassing process.

It's important to note that Ramona Kitzinger, the Democrat observer and Democrat vice chair of Waukesha county, had no objections whatsoever.

Ramona Kitzinger, the Democratic member of the county board of canvass, defended the process. She agreed with Nickolaus that the board "went over everything and made sure that all the numbers jived up, and they did."

"I'm the Democratic vice chair of Waukesha County, so I'm not going to stand here and tell you something that's not true," Kitzinger said.

Kudos to Kitzinger for doing the right thing and being honest rather than playing politics.
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UPDATE, April 11, 2011: I retract the kudos to Kitzinger.

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This is big. Enormous!

From Christian Schneider:

BREAKING: Computer Error Could Give Prosser 7,381 More Votes, Victory

After Tuesday night’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election, a computer error in heavily Republican Waukesha County failed to send election results for the entire City of Brookfield to the Associated Press. The error, revealed today, would give incumbent Supreme Court Justice David Prosser a net 7,381 votes against his challenger, attorney Joanne Kloppenburg. On Wednesday, Kloppenburg declared victory after the AP reported she finished the election with a 204-vote lead, out of nearly 1.5 million votes cast.

On election night, AP results showed a turnout of 110,000 voters in Waukesha County — well short of the 180,000 voters that turned out last November, and 42 percent of the county’s total turnout. By comparison, nearly 90 percent of Dane County voters who cast a ballot in November turned out to vote for Kloppenburg.

Prior to the election, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus was heavily criticized for her decision to keep the county results on an antiquated personal computer, rather than upgrade to a new data system being utilized statewide. Nickolaus cited security concerns for keeping the data herself — yet when she reported the data, it did not include the City of Brookfield, whose residents cast nearly 14,000 votes.

...“Waukesha County officials have announced a press conference for 5:30 CST.”

So when do we hear that a bag with 10,000+ ballots for Kloppenburg was found in a Dane County poll worker's garage?

Wisconsin state senator Chris Larson is already spinning:

Heard rumor the Waukesha County Clerk was also the tech point person for Republican caucus during the scandals 10 years ago. #wiunion

Naturally.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

In a political bombshell, the clerk in a Republican stronghold is set to release new vote totals giving 7,500 votes in the state Supreme Court race back toward Justice David Prosser, swinging the race significantly in his favor.

The Waukesha County clerk's office has told state elections officials that they will be adjusting the vote totals to give incumbent David Prosser more than 7,000 new votes, said Mike Haas, staff attorney for the state Government Accountability Board.

"Waukesha will be adjusting their vote totals by 14,000," Haas said the Accountability Board was told.

The numbers will add some 11,000 votes for Prosser and some 3,000 for Kloppenburg, he said.

The new numbers may provide some clarity to a race that had appeared to be headed toward the first statewide recount in two decades and provided a new surprise for a state that had already faced two months of chaotic politics.

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