Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced today that she made a computer error that failed to account for more than 14,000 votes that were cast in the City of Brookfield Tuesday night, and if the votes are allowed to stand, they could give Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser a victory over challenger Joanne Kloppenburg.
With the new votes counted, Prosser would pick up a net gain of 7,582 votes over Kloppenburg, who led after the initial ballot count by a mere 204-vote margin after more than 1.7 million votes were cast in the state.
Nickolaus conducted a press conference today to announce that 14,315 votes were not counted in the strongly conservative county.
Nickolaus said the error was discovered today.
She said the Brookfield vote total was “imported into the database, but was inadvertently not saved.”
Nickolaus said, “I noticed the discrepancy during the canvass. The purpose of the canvass is to catch these kinds of errors. This is human error, which I apologize for, which is common in this process.”
She said the new totals reflect a voter turnout rate of 47 percent in Waukesha County.
How do you make a "mistake" on 14,000 votes in a 30,000 voter county? Who paid who to "take the fall"?
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Was there any doubt whatsoever that the state would "find" the votes it needed to keep the incumbent in office?
My fear is that the message this will send to Wisconsin's (and Ohio's) union workers is, "Don't bother; the GOP will find a way to win, whether they have the votes or not."
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