WI Capital Times calls for Federal probe, full recount required in high court race

[WI_DEM]

Suppose the Democratic governor of Illinois had proposed radical changes in how the state operates, and suppose anger over those proposed changes inspired a popular uprising that filled the streets of every city, village and town in the state with protests. Then, suppose there was an election that would decide whether allies of the governor controlled the state’s highest court. Suppose the results of that election showed that an independent candidate who would not be in the governor’s pocket narrowly won that election.

Then, suppose it was announced by a Democratic election official in Chicago that she had found 14,000 votes in a machine-controlled ward that overwhelmingly favored the candidate aligned with the Democratic governor. And suppose the Democratic official who “found” the needed ballots for the candidate favored by the Democratic governor had previously been accused of removing election data from official computers and hiding the information on a personal computer, that the official’s actions had been censured even by fellow Democrats and that her secretive and erratic activities had been the subject of an official audit demanded by the leadership of the Cook County Board.

Now suppose that the number of additional votes tabulated for the governor’s candidate was precisely the number needed to prevent the independent candidate from demanding an official recount.

Would even the most naive Illinoisan simply accept at face value that the new count was “legitimate” or that the governor’s candidate should suddenly be presumed to have been “elected”? Not likely...
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http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/article_be206ecd-4b8d-571a-9fa2-cb4e5bf8e668.html

[Ian David]

1. Prosser Up by 7500+ After 'Database Error' Discovered by Controversial Clerk in Republican Waukesha

Prosser Up by 7500+ After 'Database Error' Discovered by Controversial Clerk in Republican Waukesha
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=842059&mesg_id=842059

[PearliePoo2]

2. Something is REALLY "Stinky" in Wisconsin.....

and it's NOT their delicious cheese.
K&R

[eowyn_of_rohan]

5. Have you tried our Limburger?

It comes in a lead case. :)

[PearliePoo2]

6. "It comes in a lead case."

:rofl:
YES....I've eaten LOTS of Limburger....love the taste...the SMELL..not so much!

WARNING: The consumption of Limburger Cheese should be done in the privacy of your own home by consenting adults. :9

[eowyn_of_rohan]

10. LOL agreed! (what you said at the end)

I love the taste too but not the smell.
Enjoy it with a good Wisconsin ale.
cheers! :)

[Tom Rinaldo]

3. Federal Probe. Exactly.

The integrity of our election system requires that course of action. The suspension of disbelief needed to blindly accept the story given by that Republican clerk defies the rules of fiction let alone fact. While it is premature to be certain that laws have been broken, it is ridiculous to assert that none have been. This is precisely what investigations are for, and is must be independent. The willingness of citizens in a democracy to accdept a loss for their candidate only holds up if their is basic trust in the system that determins who won and who lost.

The literal basis of a democratic system now demands that there be an investigation to determin if there is fire along with all of the lung clogging smoke suddenly blanketing this election.

[fasttense]

4. And the timing was perfect.

Any sooner and the right amount of votes to add would not be known. Any later and they would be counting signatures instead of spread sheets and tapes.

[robinlynne]

12. Besides counting sigantures. SIgnatures have to be checked. There are more tricks

in elections than the obvious ones. (Saying this from experience.not guessing.)

[Blue Meany]

7. Add to this that the clerk was a GOP operative who

advocated for voter id, had "lost" ballots in the 2006 election, was criticized by election officials for the lack of voting security in 2008 and used to work for Prosser, at which time she escaped prosecution by agreeing to testify about illegal political activities in the legislature.

[zbdent]

8. Here's the discussion killer ... If the clerk did everything correct and nothing was wrong ...

then why would they fight an investigation into wrongdoing???

[lutefisk]

9. That is a damn good editorial!

:kick:

[ChiciB1]

11. Anybody Know How To Post A Poll On Who Wins This One?? Don't Know How

to do it myself, but since I live in Florida I KNOW how I'd be voting. They're gonna STEAL this one too!
Do I wish with all my heart that I'm wrong? You betcha, but they have us ALL by the balls and won't even flinch, just ram this through and be done with it!

This IS America after all, home of the Brave and the Free! Yep, Democracy at it's BEST, just love it doncha?