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    Maybe they thought they were auditioning for a new comedy show? Their ignorance and arrogance was showing while taking it out on those who face challenges every day. If they have a beef with the governor, let them take it out on the governor and not those who were being honored.

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    Watch Wisconsin: Recall Day
    Updated; 1st 2nd GOP win

    Michelle Malkin • August 9, 2011 11:23 AM


    Just a reminder: Today’s the day the big-spending public employee unions hope to oust 6 GOP Wisconsin state senators — not for any corruption, malfeasance, or criminal actions, but for making the tough decisions and supporting the fiscally responsible measures spearheaded by GOP Gov. Scott Walker.

    Tea Party activists across the country stood with Walker. Don’t forget to stand with the legislators who stood with Walker and stood against Big Labor. Much more than state GOP control of the legislature is at stake. It’s a critical chance to reject the unions’ punitive “payback” against politicians who have the audacity to rein in bloated budgets and government pensions.

    The targeted six are:

    Senator Robert Cowles (R)

    Senator Alberta Darling (R)

    Senator Sheila Harsdorf (R)

    Senator Randy Hopper (R)

    Senator Dan Kapanke (R)

    Senator Luther Olsen (R)

    As I mentioned last week, turnout turnout turnout is everything on this lazy day of August.

    I’ll update throughout the day. If you are a Wisconsinite, be sure to give us your polling place report.

    The invaluable MacIver Institute compiled a graphic on the Left’s out-of-state spending in the recall races (click through on the link for full size): http://michellemalkin.cachefly.net/m...ZZ2801F193.jpg




    Update 10 p.m. (DP): The Washington Post has a live blog running with a bit of info. There are reports of long lines which could have pushed voting past the scheduled closing times in some places.

    Don’t expect the early or premature calling of any races from the media. Remember some of the “Kloppenburg wins” headlines from not long ago? That might keep some of them waiting a little longer before reporting winners. Or maybe not.


    The latest: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ON5I_blog.html

    9:55 P.M. : An hour after polls closed, Republicans lead in all but one race — the 32nd district, where Democrats were most heavily favored. About 50 percent of precincts have reported in two districts: the 2nd and the 10th. In the 8th and the 18th — two of the most closely watched races — results are very slow to come in.

    Update 10:18 P.M. (MM) : AP has just declared GOP Senate incumbent Robert Cowles the winner in his race.

    Update 10:28 p.m. (DP): The AP has called the 10th district for Republican Sheila Harsdorf over Democrat Shelly Moore.

    http://michellemalkin.com/2011/08/09...in-recall-day/

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    What I don’t understand is why there are not a bunch of “run for the border” dems up for recall.

    Because, either the dems in question have solid support in their districts, or the responsible voters in them will wait for the real, scheduled elections, and not waste time and taxpayer money with contrived “recall” elections.
    My understanding is that there are Dems subject to a recall election later this month or next month.

    As to McCain/Feingold, does the federal law come into play in a state election NOT involving a federal office? I’m thinking not but I may be wrong.

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    I guess that we’re going to find out just how smart, or stupid, the people of Wisconsin are today and tomorrow or next week whenever they vote on recalling the Democraps who skipped town with their tail between their legs.

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    As a Badger Stater (whose State Senator is not up for recall) but has access to the media markets of four districts that do), let me share with what I know:

    1) This election will hinge on turnout. If conservative voters turn out, the Republicans will maintain their advantage. If the balance of the State Senate changes Repubs/conservatives will have no one to blame but themselves. We can only afford (literally) a change of two seats.

    2) Three Democrat State Senators will be up for recall elections next week don’t ask why–the State Elections Board decreed it so). Even if the balance of power would shift tonight, it could shift back next week.

    3)If you’ve got Badger State relatives in these districts, give them a call and remind them to vote. There’s about an hour and a quarter left at this writing to get to the polls.

    4) Keep us in your prayers. We are in the epicenter of the good fight. We can’t retreat now.

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    Six state Republican senators in Wisconsin face recall next week on August 9 for standing with fiscal reformer GOP Gov. Scott Walker in his fight against Big Labor.

    Progressives have been pouring national money into the recall races while bashing conservative groups for doing the same.

    Frontline Wisconsin is leading the defense of the Wisconsin GOP 6. http://www.frontlinewisconsin.com/#Home

    Grassroots ?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=BBKr7owv604

    Tea Party activists on the ground and bloggers on the right are spreading the word to support the GOP targets.

    These are the 6 GOP state senators who need your help, prayers, and support:

    Senator Robert Cowles (R)

    Senator Alberta Darling (R)

    Senator Sheila Harsdorf (R)

    Senator Randy Hopper (R)

    Senator Dan Kapanke (R)

    Senator Luther Olsen (R)

    http://michellemalkin.com/2011/08/05...-gop-senators/
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    6 Republican senators face recall in Wisconsin
    2 GOP wins, 4 races too close to call

    By SCOTT BAUER - Associated Press | AP – 33 mins ago


    MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats and Republicans waged an intense battle for control of the Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday in a recall election fueled by the backlash against Gov. Scott Walker's efforts to strip away most public employees' union rights.

    Two of six Republican Wisconsin state senators held on to their seats with four other races too close to call, according to unofficial results. Republicans were ahead in two of the other races, and Democrats led in another two. Democrats needed to win at least three races to take over majority control of the Senate.

    Fueled by millions of dollars from national labor groups, the attempt to remove GOP incumbents could provide a new gauge of the public mood less than a year after Republicans made sweeping gains in this state and many others.

    Winning on Tuesday were Sens. Sheila Harsdorf of River Falls and Rob Cowles of Allouez. Based on early results, the only Republicans trailing were Sens. Dan Kapanke of La Crosse and Alberta Darling of River Hills. Two others — Sens. Randy Hopper of Fond du Lac and Luther Olsen of Ripon — held leads.

    Turnout was strong in the morning and steady in the afternoon in communities in Darling's district such as Whitefish Bay, Menomonee Falls and Shorewood.

    Tony Spencer, a 36-year-old laid-off carpenter from Shorewood, voted for Darling's challenger, Democratic state Rep. Sandy Pasch.

    "I'm in a private union, so they haven't necessarily come after me," Spencer said. "But everybody should have the right to be in a union. I came out to stop all the union-bashing stuff."

    John Gill, 45, of Menomonee Falls, voted for Darling and questioned the opposition's anti-GOP rhetoric, which went far beyond collective bargaining.

    "This was all supposed to be about the workers' rights, so to speak. But that has not been brought up one time. It's all been misleading, the attack ads, things like that," Gill said. "The one reason they started this recall, they didn't bring up once."

    Besides the six Republicans on Tuesday's ballot, two Democratic incumbents face recalls next week. A third Democrat survived a recall attempt last month.

    Republicans hold a 19-14 advantage in the Senate, so Democrats need to win five of the eight elections to take control.

    If the Democrats win only one or two on Tuesday, they cannot take control. If they win three or four, control hinges on the outcome of next week's recalls.

    Until this year, there had been only 20 attempts since 1913 to recall any of the nation's state lawmakers from office. Just 13 of the efforts were successful.

    The stakes in Wisconsin were clearly much larger than control of the Senate. The recall election will also help determine whether the Republican revolution led by Walker regains momentum or suffers a major setback. Both parties also were testing messages ahead of the 2012 presidential race, in which Wisconsin was expected to be an important swing state.

    Republican and Democratic strategists were leery of reading too much into the results heading into next year's campaign.

    The recall effort helped stir passions in the Democratic base "in ways we might never have been able to achieve on our own," said Roy Temple, a Democratic political consultant with extensive experience in the Midwest. But, he said, that doesn't mean the recall can offer much more than hints about broader trends.

    "Wisconsin was a swing state before, and it will be after," Temple said. "Maybe (the recall) is a sign of strong intensity, and that's not meaningless, but it's not predictive."

    Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said the party was "all in" to win the races. A coalition of national unions spent millions on attack ads and other campaign activity to wrest seats from the Republicans. Conservative groups also spent millions.

    It all amounted to a summer unlike any other in Wisconsin. More than $31 million was estimated to have been spent on the nine recall efforts, rivaling the $37 million spent on last year's governor's race.

    "I feel that a lot of people didn't get their way, threw a crybaby fit and decided to have a recall. The majority of Wisconsin already voted," said 43-year-old Ross Birkigt of Menomonee Falls. "It's a shame that all of sudden this happens and that a lot of special-interest money gets poured into it. I'm kind getting sick of seeing this stuff on TV every single minute.

    Republicans won control of both houses of the Legislature and the governor's office in the 2010 election just nine months ago.

    The Legislature that had been approving Republican-backed bills in rapid succession will likely grind to a halt if Democrats win back the Senate. They would then be able to block anything from passage without a bipartisan agreement.

    Any newly elected senator will take office within 15 days, a brief window in which Republican Senate leaders could call a lame-duck session if they are about to lose control.

    The races next Tuesday target Sens. Bob Wirch of Pleasant Prairie and Jim Holperin of Conover.

    http://news.yahoo.com/6-republican-s...192400681.html
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    3 Wis. Republicans retain seats in recalls
    By SCOTT BAUER - Associated Press | AP – 5 mins ago


    http://news.yahoo.com/3-wis-republic...032022595.html
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    In Wisconsin Recall Fight, Republicans Hold the Line
    By ADAM SORENSEN | Time.com – 8 hrs


    Wisconsin Democrats knocked off two GOP state senators on Tuesday night, exacting a hard-fought political price on Republican lawmakers for restricting collective bargaining rights of state and local employees. National advocacy groups funneled tens of millions of dollars into nine races, seven of which have now been decided, turning a parochial skirmish into an all-out proxy war between Tea Partying conservatives and labor-backed liberals. But the historic recall effort, launched in the wake of intense union protests in February and March, ultimately fell one seat shy of reestablishing Democratic control of the state senate.

    On an usual day of high energy and high turnout, Republican state senators Robert Cowles and Sheila Harsdorf cruised to wide-margin victories over their Democratic challengers, as fellow incumbent Luther Olsen managed to squeak by on a few thousand votes. Not all their colleagues were so lucky; Democrat Jessica King narrowly beat out Randy Hopper, while senator Dan Kapanke was easily felled by Democratic assemblywoman Jennifer Shilling. At the end of the night, the fate of the senate majority rested on Alberta Darling, the highest ranking Republican under threat of recall and one of the architects of the controversial collective bargaining legislation. She prevailed in the most bitterly contested and heavily funded recall fight, declaring victory near midnight as both parties scrapped over the final ballots. (See pictures of the showdown in Wisconsin.)

    The six districts that voted on Tuesday were ground zero in Wisconsin's labor fight; each delivered substantial support to Walker's gubernatorial bid last November, despite being carried by Obama in 2008. While the GOP successfully repelled the assault on its senate majority and approved new redistricting rules that will likely improve statehouse Republicans' re-election odds in 2012, Tuesday's close contest should still give them some pause. Walker himself could face a recall vote in early 2012 once his first year in office is up.

    While twin Democratic victories marked a clear, if limited, rebuke of Walker and his agenda, there are few grand political or policy implications to draw from Wisconsin's recall bonanza. Labor organizations have proved themselves very capable at collecting signatures to force action at the ballot box - six GOPers compared to just three Democrats were put on the recall slate in Wisconsin, and liberals in Ohio have collected more than 1 million signatures to hold a referendum on that state's own new labor law in November - but these isolated retaliations don't augur groundswell movements for 2012. (Wisconsin's Governor Wins, but Is He Now Dead Man Walker?)

    If anything, labor's backlash against new restrictive laws in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere, has merely chastened Republican governors who've seen their approval ratings plummet. "Earlier this evening I reached out to the leadership of both the Republicans and Democrats in the Assembly and State Senate," Scott Walker said in a conciliatory statement late Tuesday. "I shared with them that I believe we can work together to grow jobs and improve our state." Of course, Walker's collective bargaining law and his statehouse majorities still stand.

    http://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-reca...091000840.html

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    Another great example of a special interest with money trying to fix the game in their favor. Where did the get the millions? Off the backs of working men and women!
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    Did they poll their union members before spending this dues money? No!
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    Should they have used this money to help their unemployed members who are suffering and losing their homes? Yes!
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    Minority special interests with money have been electing people to office because the lazy majority don't vote. That's why we have financial chaos on the state and federal level. It's a fact.
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    Of all the people eligible to vote, only half register. Of that half, only 30% are consistent voters. Most of those represent a special interest group. Those groups have elected the government we have today.
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    What were YOU doing on election day? Will YOU be voting in 2012 and beyond?

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    As my father told me life is a balance.
    First, the companies were too strong. Then, the unions got too strong.
    It now appears that the same is coming true for government entities ...

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    I was in a union at a college and they did nothing for any of it's members when they needed representation. The union was more than happy to spend our money on election campaigns on those who the administration favored. Donations without input or say from it's members. Unions are criminal! Still run by the mafia.
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    All I can say is, don't trust the results until the fat lady sings, and faints at the end.

    Being a what ever you want to call the people who live in Wisconsin, at 2 am Only one land slide and that was Cowles, receiving over 71% of the votes. ALL the other races were within 2,000 votes of each other, no more then 4% points apart, and NBC called them shortly after 10pm with results of 4 new Dems, 3 Reps kept seat (98% of votes in). Woke up this morning not feeling all that well with the results, and found out it was the total opposite of what NBC reported. Fox didn't even put who was Republican, or Democrate next to the persons, so you were clueless of their party. CBS was no help either.

    I'm sure Gov. Walker is well hated for balacing our budget, saving the state 3.6 billion dollars, so we are not dependent on DC. Making government employes paying 1.5% of their pay to their own retirement fund, and health benefit (fireman and police exempted the last I heard). Allowing union workers to voluntarily pay their own dues, (so 'they' can choose where they want their monies to go) instead of the state being responsible for it.

    Coolest thing that happened when this past school year ended ALL teachers were terminated, and had to re-apply for their jobs. That way the school didn't have to rehire a 'difficult' teacher back because of tenure. Go figure. What a terrible life. Property taxes didn't go up, state sales tax didn't go up, and we have one of the lowest sales tax states in the union 5%, then you have county sales tax less then .05%, if you live near Milwaukee you are stuck with the additional stadium tax of .001% to pay for its new building even tho you are NOT a sports fan. What a terrible state to live in at this time.

    Those Dems who hid in Rockford, IL expect the tab to be paid by the tax payers, still fighting that one.

    Keep this in mind. For those of you who are aware of the 3.8% sales tax for selling your residential property, that is in ObamaCare, don't expect when that goes into effect you'll be able to write off your biggest deduction, mortgage interest, cuz it won't be deductable anymore. If you do you own taxes you've noticed since 2009 deductions have disappeared or reduced tremendously.

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    Labor leaders must pay for parade if GOP banned, mayor says
    By John Rondy | Reuters – 18 hrs ago


    MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - The mayor of a Wisconsin town said on Tuesday a local labor council would have to reimburse the city up to $2,000 for a Labor Day parade if organizers exclude Republican lawmakers from attending.

    The move in Wausau, Wisconsin, came after a county labor official said last week that Republican politicians were not welcome at the event due to their party's stance against collective bargaining when state lawmakers voted to curtail it earlier this year.

    Wausau Mayor Jim Tipple told Reuters on Tuesday that the decision to exclude elected Republicans "flies in the face of public policy."

    "This is not a political rally, it's a parade, for God's sake," Tipple said, noting that taxpayer money is used by the city to pay for staging the event. Tipple's office is nonpartisan, and he claims no affiliation with either political party.

    He said the annual cost of the parade, including insurance, setting up and taking down a stage, and police personnel, runs anywhere from $1,500 to $2,000 each year.

    The Republican-backed collective bargaining limits made Wisconsin the center of a battle over union power this year.

    The fight propelled the state to the forefront of a wider national struggle as Republicans who took control of many statehouses in last year's midterm elections moved aggressively to shrink government and made reining in public unions a top priority.

    "It should come as no surprise that organizers choose not to invite elected officials who have openly attacked workers' rights or stood idly by while their political party fought to strip public workers of their right to collectively bargain," Marathon County Labor Council President Randy Radtke said in announcing the decision.

    The chief of staff for Sean Duffy, a Republican Congressman from northern Wisconsin, released a statement saying: "Having walked in this parade in past years, Congressman Duffy was hoping that for a moment we could set our differences aside and simply have some fun in a family-friendly event."

    Radtke told WAOW-TV in Wausau that the labor council stood by its decision to ban Republicans. Tipple said he had not been told if the labor council planned to pay the costs.

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    The Wisconsin city structures belong to the general public...The National Holiday is for every citizen to observe and celebrations...Its not ONLY belong to the UNION THUGS.

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    Fair is fair. And they're right: this is not a political parade, it's just a parade. Partisan paranoia rears its ugly head again.

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    Unions once served a useful purpose in making jobs safe, now they only rob companies and drive jobs overseas. The people have voted and public service unions are the losers. Deal with it.

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    Unions reward the lazy and punish the enterprising. They should be abolished.

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    The main difference between the Republicans and Democrats on Labor.

    Republicans voted in the equal rights act
    Republicans voted in OSHA
    Republicans voted in many personal rights for workers
    Republicans started min wage
    Jobs are based on merit

    Democrats voted for Unions
    You may not have the right to quit your job
    You have to pay money to the union
    You may be forced to strike

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    So it's a union parade, then unions should foot the bill.

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    Will the democrats be represented in the parade?

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    I'll agree unions times have passed because there are many laws on the books to protect workers. But you have to give labor unions credit for helping to change laws and culture to protect US workers from working in dingy, unsafe conditions. And making pay commensurate with work. Before unions our factories would be like Chinese factories are today. Workers rights don't exist over there. So they use young and old workers as much as they can in unsafe conditions and pay as little as they can. OMG..I got it! that's why Nixon open the door to move manufacturing overseas into china because they can’t do that here anymore.

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    Why are unions and the whitehouse denying jobs for people in SC? Boeing wanted to open a plant there. The union complained and was backed up by the whitehouse. Thereby denying people jobs. Not very labor friendly is it. Unions are corrupt and outdated.
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    Probe: Wis. clerk likely violated law in election
    By TODD RICHMOND - Associated Press | AP – 1 hr 15 mins ago


    MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A county clerk likely violated the law when she failed to report thousands of votes in this spring's tightly contested Wisconsin Supreme Court election, but her conduct wasn't criminal, state investigators said Wednesday.

    Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus touched off a firestorm in April when she revealed she hadn't reported 14,000 votes in the race between conservative Justice David Prosser and challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg. The contest evolved from a sleepy race between an incumbent justice and a little-known state attorney to a heated referendum on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargaining law, which stripped almost all public workers of most of their union rights. The measure's opponents made Kloppenburg their champion, hoping she would replace Prosser and help strike the law down.

    Nicholaus couldn't explain how she failed to report the votes, investigators said, but they concluded she probably loaded a blank template into a reporting database rather than a template that contained the vote totals. Wisconsin law requires county clerks to post all returns on Election Night.

    Former Dane County prosecutor Timothy Verhoff, who led the probe, said Nickolaus' flub wasn't intentional and she wasn't trying to conceal votes. The state Government Accountability Board, which oversees Wisconsin elections, won't refer the case to Waukesha County prosecutors, board spokesman Reid Magney said. However, the board ordered Nickolaus on Wednesday to release detailed results on Election Night rather than county-wide figures, a process that would make errors more visible. The board also told her to develop written procedures for reporting results.

    Nickolaus issued a statement Wednesday saying she was glad the investigation confirmed she made an honest mistake. She promised to follow what she termed the board's "recommendations" and said she looked forward to "rebuilding the trust of Waukesha County residents in the election process as it is the foundation of our democracy."

    Initial results from the April 5 election showed Kloppenburg upset Prosser by about 200 votes. But two days later, Nickolaus held a news conference to announce that she failed to report votes from the city of Brookfield, which flipped the race for Prosser. A statewide recount confirmed his victory. Questions swirled about whether Nickolaus, who worked for Prosser when he was a Republican legislator, was trying to stack the election for her former boss.

    The board launched a review, but Kloppenburg's campaign demanded an independent investigation. The board hired Verhoff, now a criminal defense attorney, to run the probe.

    According to his report, Nickolaus told investigators she sent blank templates to her municipal clerks, who were supposed to enter vote totals and send them back to her to upload into the county's database. Brookfield's clerk sent her spreadsheet back with the results, but Nickolaus apparently uploaded a blank template in place of Brookfield's numbers.

    If a second person had verified the results or if Nickolaus posted results by ward rather than countywide totals, the mistake could have been spotted, the report said.

    The report went on to say a general lack of communication and transparency after Nickolaus discovered the mistake made matters worse.

    Nickolaus shared information about the problem with a very limited number of people and failed to convey any urgency to the Government Accountability Board the day after the election, the report said. Her decision to hold a news conference before she knew exactly what she had done wrong added to the conspiracy theories, the report added.

    The board released the findings from its review on Wednesday as well. It largely mirrored Verhoff's conclusions.

    Kloppenburg's campaign manager, Melissa Mulliken, said the investigations vindicated their suspicions that Nickolaus broke the law

    http://news.yahoo.com/probe-wis-cler...021045523.html


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    Why is the lady still in office, he may not have committed a crime but she has committed an act that lead to spending of public money in a way that if she had done her job properly would not have occurred. She should be made to pay for the investigation and lose her job.

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    So who really won the election?

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    14,000 votes? If the votes were split like other precincts only voter turnout was effected. But that seems like a large percentage?

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    One question: What was the purpose of the law requiring the results be released election night? The reality is that the intent of the law was to put the results out so all parties could review them, report errors, AND reduce corruption. The investigation has ruled this was an error made without malice. Funny how the Democrats threw the Washington state election a few years ago with hundreds of questionable ballots and the Senate race in Minnisota when Al Franken won with 2500 mystery ballets. You did not get this coverage. In fact the media buried it faster than a liberal can say tax hike.

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    "A county clerk likely violated the law when she failed to report thousands of votes in this spring's tightly contested Wisconsin Supreme Court election, but her conduct wasn't criminal, state investigators said Wednesday."
    Huh? How did she violate the law and yet her conduct wasn't criminal? If I "accidently" speed, my argument of "my conduct wasn't criminal" isn't going to fly very far with the judge...
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    This was from 10/2010, since then we've had a total of 7 recall elections. More Republicans voted in. AP must've been nappin'

    Kloppenburg started it, and LOST! Kicked out of office!
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    It doesn't matter to me if the "error" was in favor of a (D) or a (R) ... it still seems wrong that someone made a "mistake" of that magnatude that "violated the law" yet isn't considered "criminal". She "lost" 14,000 votes ... and still keeps her job ... when her job is to tally and record the votes correctly ? It just seems that something is wrong with this picture ... or is it just me ?
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