Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

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Wisconsin sure is rivaling Illinois with spending time in court ...

Wisconsin court race won't be certified without vote probe
(2011-04-08
(Reuters) - By James B. Kelleher

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The agency overseeing Wisconsin elections will not certify results of Tuesday's state Supreme Court race until it concludes a probe into how a county clerk misplaced and then found some 14,000 votes that upended the contest.

Michael Haas, Government Accountability Board staff attorney, told Reuters on Friday the watchdog agency was looking into vote tabulation errors in Republican-leaning Waukesha County which gave the conservative incumbent a net gain of more than 7,000 votes -- a lead his union-backed challenger seems unlikely to surmount.

"We're going to do a review of the procedures and the records in Waukesha before we certify the statewide results," Haas said.

"It's not that we necessarily expect to find anything criminal. But we want to make sure the public has confidence in the results,"

Unofficial returns in the statewide race had given the challenger, JoAnne Kloppenburg, a narrow 204 vote statewide lead over David Prosser, a former Republican legislator.

But late Thursday, the top vote counter in Waukesha County, said votes she had failed to report in earlier totals resulted in a net gain of 7,582 votes for Prosser in the county

More at http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wk...out.vote.probe.

If only it hadn't taken 2 days to come up with the uncounted votes.

If only that voting irregularity wasn't announced on conservative blogs before the press conference was held to inform the public.

If only the Waukesha clerk hadn't worked for Prosser and been a Republican activist in the past.

If only you didn't have to hit "save" in Microsoft Access as the clerk alleged was the cause of the problem (there's autosave)

If only the number of "forgot to count them" votes didn't just exactly and magically put Prosser over the state-funded recount win margin.

If only the Waukesha clerk hadn't already in the past had a history of felony political involvement, having received immunity in exchange for testifying, in a previous lawsuit resulting in prison terms for everyone else involved.

I'm sure some are saying, if only it was a Democrat that did the above!

On the positive side, due to Wisconsin election laws, there should be a paper trail, so the Waukesha vote count should be easily verifiable.

Wisconsin politics is fun!