Wisconsin Recount Starts Today

Today begins the Wisconsin recount, which all experts agree will reaffirm the victory of Justice David Prosser.  It is unfortunate that defeated candidate JoAnne Kloppenberg is putting the desires of liberal hate groups like Daily Kos over the taxpayers and people of Wisconsin: 

We hoped JoAnne Kloppenburg would ask for a statewide recount, and she came through for us. She's putting her political future on the line here and getting a lot of static about wasting taxpayer money in a futile recount.

The cost of the recount will be borne by local governments, not the state or the campaigns. 

RNLA and other concerned observers will be watching that Wisconsin does not become the corrupt recount that occurred in another same day registration state, Minnesota, in 2008-2009.  In Minnesota, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie changed the very rules he had written in his own recount manual because the then-losing candidate, Al Franken, requested it.  Ritchie further allowed the counties to run the recount by different standards.  Early signs are good that Wisconsin will not become the corrupt unfair recount that the Franken-Coleman recount became because all counties will all be playing by the same rules.

Mike Haas, staff counsel with the [Government Accountability Board], stresses the importance of conducting the process uniformly across the state. “We understand that counties may be accustomed to a little bit more latitude when a recount involved only one or two counties, but we are going to be a little bit more of a stickler regarding procedures used in this recount because it is statewide.”

Unfortunately, liberals like the volunteers the Daily Kos called for may stick themselves into the process and it will be up to volunteers like those from RNLA to ensure it is the will of the voters of Wisconsin that is represented, not the partisan political desires of the liberals like those at Daily Kos.  For example, in Rock County:

Because Rock County Clerk Lori Stottler and her staff won’t be able to use electronic ballot machines, she wasn’t able to predict Monday how long the recount would take.

“You might as well throw a dart,” Stottler said. . . .

The hand count will slow things, but the presence of legal representatives from each campaign could have a more significant impact.

Each questionable ballot will be scrutinized [by] a Republican and Democratic member of the board of canvass, as well as the county clerk and the deputy county clerk.

However, each disputed ballot could become a bone of contention for legal representatives from each campaign. 

This is a recount that Democrat and Republican experts alike agree is frivolous.  RNLA Members will be there to help ensure it is accurate.