What Happened and What is Really Going on in Wisconsin

WHAT HAPPENED

1.  A close election for State Supreme Court occurred on April 5, this election was seen by some as deciding the fate of Governor Walker’s agenda, as it would determine the makeup of the Wisconsin Supreme Court – whether it is a 4-3 liberal or right of center Court.  (It is unfortunate that Democrats continue to try to use the Courts to undo elections and the will of the people.)

2.  On election night the city of Brookfield in Waukesha County called in its election results to local media, including a subsidiary of the Huffington Post, and the Waukesha County office, but did not report the results to the AP. 

3.  The Waukesha County Government Accountability Board did not include the Brookfield results in their reported results on Election night.

4.  In Wisconsin’s corrupt and incompetent election system, the Government Accountability Board (GAB) administers the elections and election officials are partisans elected by county.  Waukesha’s election officials are majority RepublicanThe GAB does not require results be report in an open matter.  5.  The Waukesha County Board, as with many of Wisconsin’s County Boards, does not follow open election practices. 

6.  The day after the election, the liberal candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg declared victory based on unofficial results that gave her an extremely slim 204 vote margin, despite the votes not all being counted or canvassed.

7.  During the canvas, a process in which you run the numbers to make sure you did everything right,  Waukesha County realized it had made a mistake with its reporting.  Waukesha County took its time, but decided to announce its mistake in a 5:30 press conference.

8.  At the press conference, the Democrat member of the Board in response to a question said: “We went over everything and made sure all the numbers jibed up and they did. . . . I'm not going to stand here and tell you something that's not true." 

WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW

1.  The Conservative incumbent Prosser is up 7,305, but Milwaukee County is still canvassing. 

2.  The most a statewide recount in Wisconsin has ever changed is 489 votes, according to Justice Prosser’s campaign. 

3.  The vote margin must be within 0.5 percent if the state will pay for a recount.  When the final vote total is confirmed, it will be very close as to whether Kloppenburg is within the margin where she can request a recount funded by the state.  Kloppenberg could save the state time and money by not calling for a recount. 

4.  Under Wisconsin law you cannot request a free recount for one county; it is the whole state or nothing.

5.  The Democrats have seemingly been intimidating the Democrat Election official from Waukesha who has now partially recanted her story, saying, “I am 80 years old and I don’t understand anything about computers,” in a written statement from the local Democrat Party.  She has not spoken publicly since the press conference. 

WHAT THIS MEANS GOING FORWARD

1.  This election did lack transparency.  All the Waukesha County officials had to do was post the results by city on their website.  At RNLA, we think elections should be open fair and honest.  Waukesha, like much of Wisconsin, failed the “open” part. 

2.  There is no evidence that fraud occurred in Waukesha County, despite claims on the far left.  In addition to the election night release of accurate numbers to media from Brookfield, experts from the New York Times and Milwaukee Journal Sentential agree that there is no evidence of fraud and that this was simply a mistake. 

3.  The ultimate blame for this falls to the Wisconsin Democrat Leadership who resisted multiple bipartisan efforts to reform Wisconsin’s corrupt and incompetent election practices that led to blatant instances of fraud, including “smokes for votes,” “popcorn for votes at a mental home,” and, most telling, the foremost study of election fraud by a non-ideological, non-partisan Milwaukee Police Department Task Force identified voter fraud by 16 Democrat and Liberal allied group campaign staffers, which they concluded was an “illegal organized attempt to influence the outcome of an election in the state of Wisconsin.” 

4.  However, Wisconsin’s Democratic Leadership wanted this system.   Why?  Because incompetence allows fraud.  As the DOJ and other prosecutors detailed when they decided not to bring charges against the multiple Democrat and liberal staffers caught committing “multiple criminal acts”: “Based on the investigation to date, the task force has found widespread record keeping failures and separate areas of voter fraud. These findings impact each other.  Simply put: it is hard to prove a bank embezzlement if the bank cannot tell how much money was there in the first place. Without accurate records, the task force will have difficulty proving criminal conduct beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.”

5.  Regarding the April 5 elections, there is evidence of fraud in Dane County (where Madison is located) and other places that should be investigated.  In the last few weeks, many out of state union and liberal activists have been protesting and frequenting the Madison area.  Did they also vote? We know under Wisconsin’s fraud promoting laws, an out of state activist can easily be vouched for by a Wisconsin resident.  (The Milwaukee police found multiple campaign workers and activists illegally voting in their report.) Any recount should thoroughly investigate what happened in Dane County.  As the Daily Caller first reported: “On an estimated more than 10,000 ballots in Dane County, Wisconsin, where the state capital Madison is, voters selected only a pick in the Supreme Court race, while leaving even the hotly contested mayoral and county executive choices blank.”  Voting experts agree it is very unlikely that so many residents would only care about one race, but we know the liberal activists only cared about the Supreme Court race.