There’s 4 days left in the statutory deadline, though the Government Accountability Board will file a request in a Dane County court on Monday for an extension on behalf of Dane and Waukesha Counties. Dane County has requested a one-day extension, and at least as of Thursday afternoon, Waukesha County had not given an estimated end date.
With 2,862 reporting units (79.46%) and 1,124,236 votes (just under 75%) recounted and reviewed as of 6 pm Thursday, David Prosser’s lead dropped by 220 votes from the pre-recount 7,316-vote lead to 7,096 votes. With a further 12 reporting units reporting results to the GAB but not having their numbers reviewed, 64 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties have now finished their portions of the recount.
Despite a continued hyper-challenge strategy employed by the Kloppenburg campaign, Waukesha County managed to finish recounting votes in 10 of the 24 wards in the city of Brookfield today (unfortunately, after the GAB released its 6 pm vote update), which brings that county’s completion total to just over 17% of the wards and close to 23% of the votes. The first of many challenges on the day began before the first bags of ballots were opened, as the overstuffed bags had begun to rip open from handling. The 6 plastic bags, from the first 3 wards and tied closed with a single red security tie, contained approximately 2,000 ballots. Lisa Sink at Brookfield Patch has an exhaustive multimediia report, including pictures of both the bags and several people dropping in to protect their votes, and video of the board of canvassers’ discussion and ultimate acceptance of the ballots.
A second early challenge, also dismissed by the canvassing board, involved the use of excess blank absentee ballots to compensate for the depletion of regular ballots on election day in Brookfield’s Ward 1. The funny thing is, up until today, I hadn’t heard, or at least I don’t remember hearing, of Brookfield running out of ballots, though I did hear of other, outstate locales running out.
and of course the hyper-challenge strategy is only laying the groundwork for their court challenge to follow. WHich they will delay filing for until the last possible day. I won’t be suprised is they ask for :
Try to have all of Brookfield disenfranchised ( throw all the votes out )
Try to get a ‘do-over’ election in Brookfield, or
Try to get the entire election invalidated, ask for a ‘special SC election do-over’ to coincide maybe with the upcoming recall election day.
It won’t suprise me if this goes all the way to SCOTUS.
They’ll lose, but they know that. It’s fodder / red meat for the base they’re after, they want to scream ‘Looky looky ! Florida 2000 all over !’ EVen though what actually happened in Florida 2000 is that SCOTUS *PREVENTED* the Florida SC from retroactively changing the rules of an election after the election.
Kleptoburg and her fellow Dem fascists are deranged lying treasonous criminals who should be jailed at their own expense for about ten years, at least as dangeous to our republic in their own way as OBL.
This entire drama which began with an attempt to rein in unchecked public sector unions and their overpaid members reminds me of a chess game. Unfortunately it’s a chess game where the other side can ask their mommy—courts—to change the rules mid-game.
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I wonder how much Kleptoburg paid to steal those few hundred votes from Prosser. Hopefully even her allies can see from this her delusional infantile narcissism makes her unfit for any kind of responsible office, public or otherwise, certainly unfit to hold a law license, though that’s true of many with black robed delusions of godhood (e.g. Tony Kennedy of the Sopranos-COTUS).
Egg Meister – thanks again for your continuing work on the spreadsheet. Beats hell out of taking that GAB original and cleaning it up enough each day to derive simple totals.
I read the GAB as showing Kloppy + 400 net right now, with 80 % in. I would not offer that number as verified work product if I were doing it for my employer, that input data is too dirty.
May your yolks always be firm !
I know, that was a bad yolk …..