At Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, "Prosser gains 7,500 votes in Waukesha County" (at Memeorandum).
Now this is the best! Ann Althouse has a post on Richard Hasen's commentary at Politico, "Wis. court election courts disaster." See, "Don't talk about fraud! Fraud?! There is no fraud! Pay no attention to those... those... those... frauders!":
Don't dare say fraud!While the fraud allegations [in various recent elections] remain stuck in the public’s mind, no proof of any systemic fraud has been unearthed. Instead, close examination of elections show, time and again, that our election systems are not perfect – but this is due to human error and not fraud.... [I]f the Wisconsin Supreme Court race goes into extra innings, I expect things to become especially contentious and partisan.To become contentious and partisan? It's been ridiculously contentious and partisan here in Wisconsin since mid-February. It's hard to understand why the Republicans should stand down now. Prosser was way ahead and would have easily won if Democrats hadn't turned what was supposed to be a nonpartisan election into a referendum on the Republican governor they hate. It took Prosser a long time to realize he had to fight like a politician and not just sit quietly modeling traditional judicial demeanor. Outrageous, dirty politics was played against the old jurist, and he had little idea what to do about it. Now, his advocates are supposed to play nice so things won't get ugly? We've been in uglyville since February.
Word.
The Political Carnival's already suspicious, and at Firedoglake: "Now this could approach scandal territory. Let’s see where it goes."
Right. Scandal.More at POWIP: "Prosser Takes the Lead by . . . 7500 Votes?"
2 comments:
Wouldn't it be humorous if the Republicans held back reporting just to see how many votes the Democrats would create at the end. Anyone who has watched a significant number of the elections that have happened has to have noticed that the Democrats always have a few districts they hold back and report after they know how many votes they need to win. I had a friend in Florida who told me he saw the Democrats in Palm Beach county using a voting machine to create votes after the election had closed. One does NOT get chads in the number mentioned without putting more than one vote in the machine at a time.
I would suggest that the Republicans hold back votes until the end in order to keep them guessing as to the amount of fraud the Democrats need to indulge in to win.
Never fear the Democrats will be looking for military votes to disallow and will magically produce just the right amount of votes.
This now really makes the unions look bad.
Question. How can one trust public employees like police, firemen, et al to do their job when it needs to be done? They swear an oath to do their jobs and then do not when the union bosses tells them not to do that job. Case in point, the Wisconsin police chose in several incidences to put the lives of many people in jeopardy from a mob that had shown it was quite capable of taking that option. Why did the union go to such lengths if they did not know that the police would stand by and do NOTHING?
I noted the same thing with the California police when I got back from SEA duty. In fact one does not have to search far and wide to find a number of incidences where the police did NOT do their jobs of protecting the people in their state and much of this driven by the unions. One has to ask the question as to whether when the time comes will those union firemen show up to put a fire out or will the listen to the union bosses first?
It is one of the reasons that one needs to have their own safety equipment and their own guns. If Wisconsin, California, New York et al has taught us anything is that unionized police cannot be trusted to be there when they are needed.
These comments come from a person who wrote a number of OP-ED comments to get the pay of the State Police raised. If one wants a professional police force that one can count on then one needs to pay them a professional wage. But is does seem to naught given actions like those in Wisconsin.
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