Things started to move along in Waukesha County the past couple days, even though the tracking spreadsheet may not necessarily reflect that. After the canvassing board and their tabulators moved to a larger room in the Waukesha County Courthouse, they began to set a decent pace despite a continued barrage of challenges, making their way through roughly 8,000 ballots per day.
As for the results thus far, through the end of business yesterday, the Government Accountability Board reported late this morning results from 3,461 of the 3,602 reporting units (the 3,408 units in the other 71 counties as certified), along with another 4 reporting units (all in Waukesha County) still under review. David Prosser’s unofficial statewide lead stood at 6,984 votes, a reduction of 332 votes from his pre-recount 7,316-vote lead.
That included 44,848 votes recounted and reviewed, out of an original 125.070, in Waukesha County, plus another approximate 3,700 reported to the GAB but not yet reviewed, from 53 of 192 reporting units. That does not include the approximately 25% of the city of Waukesha’s nearly-16,000 votes that have been recounted thus far; as the city counted its absentee ballots in a central location, the canvassing board is waiting until the entire city is recounted to report the results. In Waukesha County, Prosser gained a net 25 votes on his pre-recount lead.
Kyle Maichle e-mailed me this report this morning from the Courthouse (editor’s note; it was sent before yet another ballot bag challenge from the Kloppenburg campaign, this time for a “small hole” in the town of Merton):
First, the City of Waukesha has been counted since yesterday. According to their City Clerk I spoke with, they are being counted in no particular order. As of this morning they have already counted 15 out of the 60-plus reporting units there.
There have been no ballot bag challenges documented since May 5th in the official minutes.
As of this morning, they are counting the Towns of Lisbon and Oconomowoc in addition to Waukesha-City. Yesterday, the Towns of Ottawa and Mukwonago were completed.
How they are running today’s recount is that one half of tables is for the City of Waukesha while the other set is for other municipalities.
Sadly, given that the challenges continue apace, and given the arrival of a multitude of Kloppenburg volunteers at the Waukesha County courthouse this afternoon, it does not appear that the Kloppenburg campaign will be taking the advice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board of not challenging the results of the recount in court.
WTF do the Kloppites actually think a judge is going to do ?
Throw out the votes of the entire town of Brookfield ? The county of Waukesha ? Selected bags of ballots ?
Order a ‘do-over’ election in just that city ? Just that county ? The entire state ? All based on ‘the possible appearance of possible fraud’, with zero proof of ACTUAL fraud ?
Or is it really just all about keeping the temperature up for the recalls, and 2012 ?
So they can run around shouting ‘Look at the injustice inherent in the system !’ ?
There’s some lovely muck over here …..
There are some “creative” reserve Lawgivers-In-Black Shirley Abrahamson can choose, so they’ll toss at least as many votes as necessary to hand Kloppenburg the “win” at the state level. There’s far too much money being spent just to keep the temperatures up.
Well, it would have to come up from Appeals level in Klop’s favor, the W-SC won’t have enough to overturn it there.
Then there’s always the US-SC. I hope.
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Where were all the challenges to ballot bags with holes, broken seals, no initials that were seen in Dane and Milwaukee Counties?? Oh, that’s right, Kloppelganger WON in those counties!