The Rovian strategy for the Kloppenburg/Prosser race in Wisconsin

[pnwmom]

1. Take one previously discredited, highly suspicious Republican operative
2. Arrange for her to make a "harmless," temporary, but shocking mistake
3. Listen to the Dems scream about voter fraud
4. Have Prosser graciously suggest that the county's votes be recounted by hand
5. Watch them recount Waukesha County votes and find them perfectly in order
6. Completely discredit the Dems who are concerned about election fraud
7. Destroy all the ballots in other counties before anyone asks to look at them.

[slackmaster]

1. That's about the size of it, and a lot of people took it hook, line, and sinker

:nuke:

[patrice]

2. very possible.

[Blue Meany]

3. That occured to me too, but they should have kept John Fund

from screaming about "voter fraud" when it looked like Prosser would lose. Now the Dems can use his argument (too many votes just for the Supreme Court) to argue for counting ballots in other areas (seems to have been true across the state).

[buddysmellgood]

4. The candidate will need to ask for a statewide recount

[Jackpine Radical]

5. You might have a look at this thread…

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x872933



OK, it's election night & you can see the vote coming in unGodly close. You execute the Chaos plan: You scuttle the 14,000 votes from the city of Brookfield. Then 2 days later you "rediscover" those votes. Bedlam ensues, just as you counted on happening. Investigatins follow, all centering on what happened in Brookfield.

Ah, but Brookfield is a diversion. Examination of the situation will not change the vote. But you have all the attention in the state focused on one spot.

Meanwhile, whatever electoral chicanery took place, happened far from Brookfield and nobody is going to look there once they have satisfied themselves that the Brookfield count was more or less accurate.

WHAT other electoral chicanery? Beats the hell out of me, but when I see the magician waving a scarf in the air with one hand, I immediately want to know what he's doing with the other hand.

[pnwmom]

6. I guess our paranoia has run along similar tracks.

:hi:

[Jackpine Radical]

7. No matter how paranoid you get,

you can't keep up.

(OK, I sorta stole that from Lilly Tomlin.)

[LisaL]

8. Kloppenberg has a right to request state-wide recount.

Prosser doesn't have to agree to it.
She might have to pay for it, if the margin is too large, but if she requests it, it will be carried out.