Wisconsin County That 'Found' Lost Votes Apparently Has Major Voting Irregularities For Years...

Failures

from the well,-look-at-that dept

Mon, Apr 18th 2011 10:53am — Mike Masnick

You may recall a little over a week ago we wrote about the Wisconsin county that magically found 14,000 votes in a recent (highly contested) election, after the very partisan County Clerk -- who had just been questioned for questionable methods of collecting election data -- said that she had "failed to save the results" in her original report. While this followup story is now about a week old, someone just sent it over to us. Apparently that particular county, Waukesha County, has a rather stunning history of voting irregularities, including having an astounding and totally unprecedented 97.63% voter turnout rate in 2004:

Apparently in 2004 the polls in Waukesha were teeming with voters as the Waukesha County Clerk's office showed a 97.63% turn out. No, that's not a typo. 97.63%

http://www.waukeshacounty.gov/...

Of the 236,642 registered voters in Waukesha on Nov 2, 2004 apparently 231,031 of them came out in a hint of rain and drizzle and did their civic duty.

Just to put this in perspective, Australia has compulsory (mandatory) voting and their turnout is 95%.

And it's not just voter turnout that's suspiciously high. Voter registrations are unprecedented as well:

In the 8 months leading into the 2004 Presidential Election there was a marginal 1.3% increase in the rolls netting about 3000 additional new voters. However in the 3 months after the election, which showed an anomalous 97.63% turn out, suddenly the rolls surged to the tune of almost 50,000 new voters and upped the rolls 20%. I suppose that's one way to even out a suspiciously high turn out.

Furthermore, remember that first number I told you to hang on to? The 283,820 eligible voters in the county of Waukesha in July of 2004? This new surge in the voter rolls has now pushed total voter registration in Waukesha County to 99.5% of elegible voters being registered to vote by February of 2005.

99.5% of eligible voters registered? Wow.

But, let's not stop there. The blogger who did this research also dug up the official election results data from the 2006 election in Waukesha County, and noticed that some of the elections appeared to have more votes than ballots were cast by a fairly large number:

In the race for Governor/Lieutenant Governor there were a total of 176,112 votes cast. For Attorney General there were a total of 174,047 votes cast. And for Secretary of State there were a total 170,440 votes cast.

So, look at the 3rd line of the top of that report...Total Ballots Cast: 156,804. So based on those numbers 20,000 extra votes were cast in the election that weren't actually accounted for in the ballots cast.

To say the least, these numbers are pretty troubling if you believe in the integrity of democratic elections.

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The eejit (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 9:55am

And we thought voter fraud was the demeasne of Hamid Karzai and Saddam Hussein..
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Chris Rhodes (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 10:24am

Meh
Pffft, that's nothing. Saddam Hussein got 100% of the vote when he was in office!

Amateurs.
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- Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 1:05pm
  
  Re: Meh
  If I run for elections I'll get 500 percent of the votes.
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Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:04am

Yep this county needs a careful recount.

Anyone know what kind of voting machines they use?
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- Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:17am
  
  Re:
  Optical Scan Ballots.
  
  Voter marks a ballot and then puts it into an optical scan machine. So in theory, all the ballots should be still available for recounting.
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- Dark Helmet (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:17am
  
  Re:
  No, but I have spent a fair amount of time in Waukesha County, and I used to deal with people there on a bi-annual basis (played/coached volleyball and the largest juniors tournement in the Midwest occurs there).
  
  I promise you that these numbers are bullshit. Waukesha is no more or less educated, motivated or politically minded than any other county in Wisconsin. Basically....they kinda sorta care but not really. You've got a few right wing nutbars and left wing dumbasses to go along with what is mostly a community of blue-collar folks and farmers. Hell, I remember the people that worked there telling me the Center Court Sports complex where the tourney was held is one of the largest buldings in Waukesha.
  
  Rural towns like that do NOT get near 100% voter turnout....
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  - Christopher (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:07pm
    
    Re: Re:
    Agreed. My rural town has about 80% of the voting age adults registered and that is only because you are automatically registered when you go for a driver's license.
    
    Even then, only about 60% at most of the registered voters vote at any one time.
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    - The Devil's Coachman (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 3:37pm
      
      Re: Re: Re:
      In New Jersey, that would be a new record!
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- r roborovsky, 18 Apr 2011 @ 1:01pm
  
  Re: REcount
  This county needs more than a recount and examination of their voting machines, information like this leads one to suspect fraud at a higher level than right at the polls.
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That Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:13am

I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt when this initially broke. I thought there might be irregularities but rather than just accuse her of doing x to get y, both sides needed to look into it and settle it so there could be none of the finger pointing afterwards.

Seeing this new information, I think she is either incredibly stupid or incredibly corrupt. It is bad enough we have companies pouring money in to get political payback afterwards, but to find what looks like, sounds like, walks like corruption this rampant is disturbing.

I do think the people need to step up, winning side or loosing side, and demand better. This type of scandal should be the wakeup call and we should find all of the problems in this office and use them as the what not to do guidelines.

Has our political system rotted from the top down to the lowest levels now?
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- The Devil's Coachman (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 3:38pm
  
  Re:
  Actually, it seems to have rotted from the middle out.
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Steven (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:14am

And it only took 6 years for somebody to say '97.6... wait, WHAT!?'
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- Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:15pm
  
  Re:
  Yeah, that was my reaction. It took a random blogger (who says she's never posted on the site before) to find this?
  
  Sure makes those millions of dollars spent so that Wolf Blitzer can appear to be floating in space amongst holographic election results look like a good investment. Really, none of the "professional" journalists ever noticed?
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Mike, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:15am

I think this source is somewhat wrong
This blog post by Nate Silver from a few days ago does a pretty good job looking at the statistics for the most recent election.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/vote-counting-error-in-wisconsin-points-to-i ncompetence-not-conspiracy/
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- DCX2, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:42am
  
  Re: I think this source is somewhat wrong
  All that Nate Silver's analysis demonstrates is that the 2011 voting results post-recanvassing are consistent with 2010 results. It doesn't say anything about whether that county has consistently returned skewed results. According to the article above, this county has had voting irregularities since at least 2004.
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- Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:23pm
  
  Re: I think this source is somewhat wrong
  I read 538 and Nate has great numbers.
  
  There's one problem. That post assumed that 2010 numbers were not fraudulent as well. If the 2011 election results were consistent with 2010, but 2010 was tampered with, hmmm, then it sure makes sense that 2011 was tampered with as well.
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John Doe, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:18am

The real problem isn't the fraud...
The real problem isn't the fraudulent voting, it is the fact that nothing will be done to those who forged the votes. Since nothing ever seems to be done to the people who are responsible for this kind of thing, there isn't actually any reason for people not to do it. Why not fake the votes for your candidate if there are no consequences. Heck, for sharing a few songs you can be charged in excess of $600,000, but steal an election and nobody cares.
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- Christopher (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:08pm
  
  Re: The real problem isn't the fraud...
  That is because it is very hard to absolutely prove (or beyond a reasonable doubt prove) that a person is connected with the vote tampering/forging.
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  - ComputerAddict (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:15pm
    
    Re: Re: The real problem isn't the fraud...
    Ahh Apparently I missed the memo on easily connecting IP Addresses to people. I still keep accusing printers of filesharing...
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Malibu Cusser (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:19am

Rest in pieces
I wonder how many Sabitch's voted in those elections?
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James Carmichael, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:20am

I'm very curious as to whether there was a bias in the results towards one party rather than another? In other words, what were the *results* of the 97%-turnout vote? Was it leaning pro-Democrat or pro-Rebublican, or neutral, or maybe a hilariously named write-in got all the extra votes?

I'm not accusing either party of cheating, but after finding out such numbers, you can't help but investigate further and find out if there was any obvious signs of corruption...
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- James Carmichael, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:24am
  
  Re:
  Sorry, I didn't read the link until now. The Republicans got twice as many votes as the democrats, though that may just be because Wisconsin really likes Bush/Cheney.
  
  DEMOCRATIC (DEM) 30,322 votes (26.86%)
  REPUBLICAN (REP) 82,311 votes (72.92%)
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  - Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:11pm
    
    Re: Re:
    Wisconsin has actually voted democrat for POTUS since 1988.
    
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_election_results_by_state
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    - sidewinder, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:23pm
      
      voted democrat for POTUS
      Everywhere except Waukesha County, apparently.
      
      But, hey, this just shows that we need ID Cards to be able to vote. Because "everyone" knows that it's the "poor" & the "colored" that engage in VOTER FRAUD & not respectable white people (read "Republicans").
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      - James Carmichael, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:43pm
        
        Re: voted democrat for POTUS
        Even if they issue ID Cards, they can still add a few thousand votes on top, or find another way to cheat the system. Only way to make it bulletproof is to have votes not be secret, but I brought this up in another post last week and started a shitstorm about how people would be too scared to vote.
        
        But I mean, if you could go and look at the vote record, you could verify that:
        1) Your vote was counted
        2) Dead or 'fake' people didn't vote
        3) Nobody voted twice
        
        In other words, something this this would never happen. But hey, privacy trumps everything apparently. That and freedom, whatever it means.
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      - Transbot9, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:55pm
        
        Re: voted democrat for POTUS
        But then UW students wouldn't be able to vote four times! Like they need to do that with Madison already having a tendency to lean towards liberal progressive.
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- John Doe, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:26am
  
  Obvious sign of corruption?
  The obvious sign of corruption is the 97% voter turnout rate. :)
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  - James Carmichael, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:38am
    
    Re: Obvious sign of corruption?
    Bush bought his presidency*
    
    *Not intended to be a factual statement. Or is it...
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    - DCX2, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:43am
      
      Re: Re: Obvious sign of corruption?
      He didn't *buy* the Presidency. He was elected President by the Supreme Court.
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      - John Doe, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:45am
        
        Re: Re: Re: Obvious sign of corruption?
        IIRC, and I may not, all the recounting that was done long after the election favored Bush my a slim margin. Also, the ballot was confusing and it was created by Democrats.
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        Jal, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:05pm
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Obvious sign of corruption?
        There was a mandatory recount triggered by Bush ahead in Florida by about 2k votes. Then by, if I recall correctly, 527.
        
        Which was the whole point, and why the Brooks Brothers riot worked.
        
        Bush was elected fair and square, 5-4, with an assist from Kathline Harris.
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        James Carmichael, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:07pm
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Obvious sign of corruption?
        "Bush was elected fair and square" assuming this case of voting corruption is the only one in the country, which would be hard to believe.
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        John Doe, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:21pm
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Obvious sign of corruption?
        What corruption, the Democrats created the ballot and then tried to get the counting in their favor.
        
        Also, lets not forget the extreme liberal organization called ACORN that is setup entirely for voter fraud by the Democrats.
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        sidewinder, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:26pm
        
        P-shaw, I sez!
        see above
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        DCX2, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:50pm
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Obvious sign of corruption?
        Ah yes, the ACORN that James O'Keefe did one of his undercover video stings on.
        
        The...faked...severely edited...undercover video sting.
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        Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 2:03pm
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Obvious sign of corruption?
        @John Doe
        
        It may be time to do a little more reading about the Bush/Cheney election. Follow-up counting and analysis in Ohio has basically shown that the entire state election was a fraud and Bush did not actually win Ohio.
        
        Also, I know who much Republicans hate ACORN but please keep in mind, even if all they did was commit fraud, it would still be voter registration fraud, which wouldn't actually change the outcome of elections.
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        rooben (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 2:58pm
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Obvious sign of corruption?
        you know that ACORN doesn't exist, right? It was killed they lost federal funding, due to that guy making the fake video. Congress overreacted and killed funding, and ACORN collapsed.
        
        And I love how getting poor, inner-city, and other American Citizens involved with voting for their own benefit is considered voter fraud, because they primarily don't vote for the Republican Party; but things like this, well everyone should just sit down, shut up, its in the past we just all need to move on and accept the a&& screwing.
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        DCX2, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:59pm
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Obvious sign of corruption?
        Oh yes, the butterfly ballot, I forgot all about that.
        
        I don't understand why you point out that "the ballot was created by Democrats". It sounds like you're trying to suggest that Bush would have won by more had the evil Democrats not messed with the ballot.
        
        But, if you actually look at the butterfly ballot, it's pretty obvious that a lot of people are accidentally going to select Buchanan instead of Gore. About 6000 people, actually.
        
        By the way, I stand by my statement that SCOTUS elected Bush. They stepped in and ended the recount instead of letting it finish.
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        John Doe, 18 Apr 2011 @ 1:04pm
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Obvious sign of corruption?
        I point it out only because the Democrats are still crying that the election was "stolen". Had a Republican created the ballot we would never hear the end of it.
        
        I believe that Bush won that election and there was no foul play by either party.
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        Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 2:12pm
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Obvious sign of corruption?
        See above. There was obviously foul play by someone in Ohio but no one had the guts to call it.
        
        It was only the second time in history that they voted on a Congressional objection to an entire State's electoral delegation in U.S. history. Of course it got no traction because no one wants to acknowledge that the election process can be that corrupt.
        
        Not the most unbiased source but you can find dozens of others:
        
        http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/17/harvey_wasserman_on_new_ohio_voting
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    - Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:37pm
      
      Re: Re: Obvious sign of corruption?
      I think WI voted for Kerry that year...
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Lance Elms, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:35am

About Nate Silver's piece. It was interesting but you should read the comments, especially the newest comments. Many of the readers pointed to a number of ways that fraud could have been committed that would not have shown up in Silver's analysis of the numbers. Perhaps one of the most compelling comments addressed long-term vote tampering.

"Part of what Nate does as an election forecaster is to look at the past performance of the districts he analyzes. If vote fraud has been occurring in those districts on a regular basis then his method will blindly include that vote fraud in his prediction of the election outcome. In short, the vote fraud is a regular element of that district�s results and thus Nate factors it into his projection, as part of his regression. Nate doesn�t even have to be aware of the vote fraud for his method to work.

But if vote fraud is a regular feature of a district�s voting pattern, then presuming that vote fraud can be detected by an abnormal result is a flawed premise."

A state or federal examination of what has been going on in Waukesha county is a no brainer.
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- James Carmichael, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:40am
  
  Re:
  "A state or federal examination of what has been going on in Waukesha county is a no brainer."
  
  Fifty bucks there's not going to be any serious investigation. I'm starting to confuse the US with Nigeria...
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  - Stuart, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:59pm
    
    Re: Re:
    If the Democrats can swing it. There will be an investigation. Just enough of one to turn the tide their direction. But I grantee that nothing more will come of it.
    Neither the Dems nor the Pubs want us to know for sure that we do not count.
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  - ethorad (profile), 20 Apr 2011 @ 12:55am
    
    Re: Re:
    Hi GOOD freind
    
    I am riting to you as a PRESIDENT of the US. I would like to asks your HELP in moving some funds out of the country.
    
    I have $50MILLION to transfer. If you are able to help by providing my with your bank details I will pay you $2MILLION DOLLARS
    
    Thankyou
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Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:38am

This reminds me of all them dead people and convicts who voted for Stuart Smally in MN.
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Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:43am

Solution is simple...
You do what's done in every banana-republic where elections are rigged - sack everybody involved, invalidate the results, and bring in the Canadian armed forces to monitor the polling.

The person responsible (electoral officer) should also be tried for treason. Either they were complicit, or so grossly incompetent that they need to be punished for it.
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- Suzanne Lainson (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 4:29pm
  
  Re: Solution is simple...
  It does seem to be headed this way.
  
  Gov. Scott Walker Reportedly Planning Financial Martial Law In Wisconsin - Rick Ungar - The Policy Page - Forbes: "Walker�s plan would resemble-if not directly mirror- the legislation signed into law by Gov. Snyder of Michigan which gives Snyder extraordinary powers to take over municipalities when he determines them to be in financial trouble, further permitting him to actually fire locally elected public officials when he deems it desirable."
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  - Christopher (profile), 19 Apr 2011 @ 12:59am
    
    Re: Re: Solution is simple...
    Totally against the separation of powers and if he tries this, he is going to end up in federal, state, etc. court over this and with a stiff jail sentence.
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weneedhelp (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:47am

Need change? vote a few times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95fr0PVhZVw
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarian, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:55am

Free Beer?
I lived in the cheesehead state for 23 years, and can say with all honesty that if free beer was offered after proof of having voted, then 99.5% is reachable. Go Badgers!
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- Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:35pm
  
  Re: Free Beer?
  That would result in voter fraud...by me, all day! It'd be a new state mandated holiday!
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- Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:46pm
  
  Re: Free Beer?
  No Need for free beer, just make the neighborhood bar the polling place.
  You can roll for your vote.
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  - Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 1:07pm
    
    Re: Re: Free Beer?
    You're obviously not from WI. We drink all our beer at home in front of the TV.
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    - The Devil's Coachman (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 3:42pm
      
      Re: Re: Re: Free Beer?
      And quite a large quantity, it appears.
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- Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:46pm
  
  Re: Free Beer?
  No Need for free beer, just make the neighborhood bar the polling place.
  You can roll for your vote.
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ChurchHatesTucker (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:01pm

Not just that
To say the least, these numbers are pretty troubling if you believe in the integrity of democratic elections.

And they're equally troubling if you don't believe in the integrity of democratic elections. You get amateurs being obvious about it, and pretty soon people will start looking at all the numbers.
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Haapi, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:12pm

Vocabulary -- Election vs. Voter fraud
Let's keep our vocabulary straight -- the issue is Election Fraud, not Voter Fraud. Election Fraud happens after the voting is over, and that's what should be investigated in WI.

Voter fraud involves illegal voters and illegal votes, and conservatives always have their knickers in a twist about it (Voter ID, etc.). Rarely proven beyond onesy-twosy occurrences. N.B. "Mickey Mouse" never voted, even if registered by ACORN, and Coleman never even TRIED to push voter fraud as an issue in MN.
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Wulfman (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:32pm

Uhhh mike
The election was certified by DEMOCRATS. Where is the injustice here ? I am sure you NEVER made a spread sheet error in your life.
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- DCX2, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:48pm
  
  Re: Uhhh mike
  Microsoft Office products auto-save. They also prompt you with a modal dialog box that cannot be ignored if you try to close without saving. And if your computer shuts down due to a power outage, the next time you start Access, it will show you the auto-save and ask if you want to restore it.
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  - Transbot9, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:58pm
    
    Re: Re: Uhhh mike
    Only if you have it set up correctly. My faith in people and technology is not very high, especially after working tech support.
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Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:34pm

2004? what about 2011 supreme court race...

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/waukesha-clerk-announces-votes-for-prosser-im- thankful-that-this-error-was-caught-early.php
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gojomo (profile), 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:40pm

This highlights one of the reasons a national popular vote (rather than the electoral college) could create more, rather than fewer, problematic situations like Bush/Gore 2000.

By the median voter theorem, the two parties will adjust themselves so that most elections tend towards a 50-50 split. A nationwide popular vote makes a few thousand votes *anywhere* potentially result-changing. Both parties have regions where their partisans dominate; both parties have some ethically-challenged-if-its-for-the-cause rank-and-file, especially at the local levels where there's less focused media attention.

So, sneaking in a small number of votes to run up the victory totals in the most partisan, least-mentally-balanced strongholds could more easily swing the whole election. It means that instead of having to watch a few swing states very closely � states that by definition have healthy organizations on both sides � every single partisan outpost needs to be suspect.

In a close election, everyplace becomes Florida/Palm Beach County (or Waukesha County), simultaneously.
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Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 12:43pm

That's just conservative logic
It's only voter fraud if poor people and minorities do it.
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Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 1:04pm

Politicians and their corporate sponsors don't need to buy elections, they can just outright rig them. Democracy? I laugh at your democracy.
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Gill Bates, 18 Apr 2011 @ 1:19pm

ME smells a fish...
a dead fish.

Better check that counties voters against the obituaries.
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Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 1:37pm

The state of Florida sent documents to New York citing New York Residents who were registered to vote in Florida (snowbirds)

That data showed that NY residents were voting in both New York and Florida.

Think anyone cared about it?
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Anonymous Coward, 18 Apr 2011 @ 3:53pm

Being from the Milwaukee area, I'm not at all surprised, except by the fact that they did so basically nothing to cover up or reconcile the numbers. I Know when Baby Bush was running the first time in 2000, it wasn't uncommon to hear about people voting for Gore 16 times or more. Voter fraud up there is outrageous, though, I can't say for sure if anywhere else is better or worse...
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Conservative Mark, 18 Apr 2011 @ 4:24pm

Vote Fraud and Election Stealing
it seems to me this county and county clerk should be part of a Federal criminal investigation now. So the question is, why isn't she? Do people in Wisconsin not value their votes?
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Bob in Zion, 18 Apr 2011 @ 6:07pm

Vote in Waukesha County
Not sure about the turn out numbers. However, in 2004 and 2006 (and 2008,2010, and 2011) the some of the numbers don't match because a few of the larger communities chose to buy a different voting system than most of the other communities. So many times the numbers the media got were missing places like New Berlin's votes, because their system wouldn't talk to anyone elses.
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Frost, 18 Apr 2011 @ 11:05pm

Only a fool believes...
Only a jackass would believe in such a thing as the integrity of Democracy. In fact, only a fool believes that Democracy is anything but "choose which dictator you like for the next four years from these two corporate-owned candidates we've pre-selected for you".

There is no such thing as an actual Democracy. That's just window dressing over a world that's run by the people with money...
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The eejit (profile), 19 Apr 2011 @ 12:45am

"Democracy is for ancient Greeks."
-Herr Starr, Preacher
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J. SMith, 16 May 2011 @ 1:51pm

The math looks fine to me
New count gives Prosser lead after Waukesha County inputting error
Apr 8, 2011 ... The new totals showed Prosser with 92263 votes in Waukesha County, while
Kloppenburg had 32758. County totals previously showed Prosser with ...

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Only ~125,xxx votes cast in Waukesha county. Roughly 50%. turnout.
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Sarah, 4 Nov 2020 @ 7:57am

The county clerk demonstrated just how easy it is to defraud the voters by failing to 'log' or 'save' or whatever on her laptop. There should not be that level of easy to manipulate human interaction in the hands of 1 person.
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