A clerk in conservative Waukesha County claims to have discovered more than 7,000 votes for David Prosser, which if true would reverse the recent election results. (Waukesha is one of the three “dark red” counties in the southeast corner of Wisconsin.)
Karoli at Crooks and Liars calls bullshit, saying the “new” numbers were reported before. Chris Bowers reports for Daily Kos that this same clerk has a history of suspicious behavior. See also Andy Kroll at Mother Jones.
Let’s face it, the USA has become a banana republic. I’d trust election results in Guatemala or Bangladesh before I’d trust them in the USA.
I hear Prosser is assembling a team of high power recount specialist hired guns. If they could work their magic getting that idiot Bush into the White House, then they shouldn’t have any problems getting Prosser what he’s paying for.
According to this diary, that 7500 figure is no accident. Below a difference of .5% in vote totals, the state pays for the recount. Beyond that amount – and 7500 pushes it beyond .5% – Kloppenberg would have to come up with the money for a recount. If you’re going to commit fraud like this, do it big enough so the trail vanishes, is the theory. Another diary about the clerk who just happened to find the votes and her extremely partisan and secretive ways.
Well, you know, if you can’t win elections fairly, CHEAT, BABY, CHEAT!!!
And you know how for years, when there were questionable elections in other countries, we used to send Jimmy Carter and a team as moderators?
Well, they won’t accept Carter because – he’s a Democrat!
Our recent questionable elections – just off the top of my head:
-2000 – Bush in FL. SCOTUS decision.
Disenfranchising voters in FL and other states.
Questions about electronic voting machines and flipping.
-2002 – See disengranchising above.
Questions about electronic voting machines and flipping.
-2004 – Bush in OH, NM, and counties in a number of states.
Electronic voting machines in many states flipped #’s in the above.
Allocation of voting machines – Not enough machines in urban areas, too many in rural areas.
Disenfranchising voters in FL and other states.
Voter caging in many states.
-2006 – See disengranchising above.
Questions about electronic voting machines and flipping.
-2008 – Maybe a moot point, Obama had too big a lead and any cheating would have stuck out like a sore thumb.
But, I’m sure they did it in places, just for practice because electronic voting machines in many states flipped.
Disenfranchising voters conitnues in many states, most noticably with voter ID requirements.
-2010 – At this point, who knows?
Oh, and AMAZINGLY, none (or virtually none) of these mishaps benefitted Democrats. What’re da odds?!?!?!
If our election process is indeed broken, and it sure looks like it is, then we are now the worlds best armed Third World Nation.
Or, h/t to Candide, “The Worlds Most Powerful Banana Republic!”
PS: I wonder what the population of that county actually is, and how many people are registered. That’s the thing to watch for to tell us, or to concretize, whether it was truly fraud.
THIS STINKS!!!
“the world’s most powerful banana republic.”
Worse than that.We sell weapons that kill large numbers of people to “questionable” regimes. Our biggest exports. The military eats up over 50% of our tax dollars, is the biggest polluter and fuel user on the planet.
We love war, and without war, we’d go crazy and bankrupt.
About 1/3rd of the population is either stupid or crazy or a combination of both.
Listening to a radio show yesterday with call ins voicing opinions about Obama’s place of birth has convinced me.
The “owners” keep the peasants fighting over stuff that doesn’t really matter as they loot the treasury.
The “owners†keep the peasants fighting over stuff that doesn’t really matter as they loot the treasury.
Bingo. And I do like “the world’s most powerful banana republic”.
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Barbara?
Dear whatever your name is – which is anything but “Al Franken.” Ok, I’ll call you Stupid.
Dear Stupid,
Did you know THAT CAPITAL LETTERS MEANS THAT YOU”RE SCREAMING AND SHOUTING???!!!
Do you KNOW WHO ELSE SCREAMED AND SHOUTED ALL OF THE TIME, STUPID?
HITLER!
That’s who!
Also ignorant people who don’t have anything to say. Since I don’t think you’re Hitler, I’ll put you in this category.
Also, STUPID,
Al won in a recount – fair and square. No clerk pulled 7,000 votes out of her ass, and didn’t tell the board of elections for 29 hours – but in that time period found time to contact rightie radio talkers and bloggers. Your Coleman boy kept it going for months because his effort was being subsidized by the Koch Brothers, and their ignorant, angry puppets like you. They wanted the Democrats to be one more vote shy in the Senate. There, btw, STUPID, are your thugs – on the Republican side – and not just in MN, but in WI. Also OH, PA, ME, the South…
Also, too, STUPID,
If I’m not mistaken, and I know I’m not, because I’M NOT AN IGNORANT SCREAMING ANGRY IMBECILE, Bush had a fully compliant REPUBLICAN House and Senate to help him put his job, economy, and country killing budgets and tax cuts.
I’d tell you go do something anatomically impossible to yourself, but I’m afraid if you did understand what I was getting at, you’d hurt yourself.
So, I’ll leave that to your Mamma. She’ll do what she does best. Or, is it your Daddy?
Never mind, I’m not that interested in how you became such a twisted and tortured soul.
Now, GO YELL SOMEWHERE ELSE, STUPID!!!
Oh, yeah, almost forgot, Stupid:
THE REAL AL FRANKEN WON!
GETOVERIT!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!
ASSHOLE!!!