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Farmgirl1961

(1,643 posts)
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 06:01 PM Dec 2016

Palmer report update: Wisconsin recount: officials admit to double counted votes, wrong color pens,

Wisconsin recount: officials admit to double counted votes, wrong color pens, other absurdities

Now that the statewide recount in Wisconsin is underway, it’s still difficult to predict whether the final vote totals will significantly shift to the point of taking the state away from Donald Trump and awarding it to Hillary Clinton. The bulk of the suspicion of cheating is now focused on Waukesha County, which is thus far refusing to do a hand recount. But even so, Wisconsin’s official website is now admitting to a number of initial errors in various other counties – some of them reading like a bad sitcom.

The official Wisconsin election website has posted its latest recount updates as of December 7th. The list, which you can visit by clicking the above blue link, includes some rather stunning admissions. For instance Racine County is admitting that its vote totals have shifted in various precincts during the course of the recount because “Votes were not counted on Election Night due to non-standard pens used to mark ballots.” What does this mean? Did poll workers give voters red pens, or magic markers? But it gets stranger.




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oldtime dfl_er

(6,989 posts)
2. For those who can't
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 06:09 PM
Dec 2016

get to the link, let me cut and paste the rest, because it is IMPORTANT.

Sheboygan County now admits (on the same source link above) that it’s reducing its vote totals because “Absentee Ballots run through tabulator twice on Election Day in error.” Vernon County is now admitting that it accidentally counted nineteen extra votes for third party candidate Gary Johnson, and as he only got 447 votes in the county to begin with, it means his vote total was overstated by nearly five percent.

Meanwhile, Washburn County admits that the vote total for Jill Stein “should have been 11 instead of 1.” And then there’s Shawano County, which is now having to admit that its “Original election results were inadvertently entered as recount results.” Some of these counties don’t even appear to be competent enough to do a recount, let alone be trusted to have gotten it right the first time.

None of the above embarrassing and sloppy errors will close the current twenty-thousand-plus vote lead which Donald Trump currently holds in the state. If a wildly incorrect vote total is hiding anywhere it’s Waukesha County, which Donald Trump supposedly won by a whopping 66,320 votes but is refusing to do a recount – and now the Stein campaign claims that county officials are illegally hiding the ballots from designated election observers. Stein would do well to go back to the judge who ordered the recount and petition him to order Waukesha to do a hand recount.

Farmgirl1961

(1,643 posts)
4. Thanks for the rest of the article
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 06:26 PM
Dec 2016

I got hammered for copying the entire link, thus my reason for not posting it all.

 

Nancyswidower

(182 posts)
5. You misread....the Palmer report is being debunked
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 06:41 PM
Dec 2016

You keep linking to a blog by guy that is being called out and won't respond to a call by the local station...Palmer of The Daily News Bin...just a tad more truthful than The Onion...a smidgen...about as trustworthy as Dumpster Gazette....stop with Palmer...he's Alex Jones nuts

Amishman

(5,816 posts)
8. thank you! Palmer is trying to make a name for himself by spinning conspiracy theories
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 07:25 PM
Dec 2016

People really need to stop, read, and think before screaming FRAUD! at every little adjustment in the vote totals.

 

Nancyswidower

(182 posts)
9. Don't thank me...anyone that has watched this idiot for more than 5 minutes
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 07:37 PM
Dec 2016

knows he's he's slightly short of batcrap nuts.....the idiocy of pen colors...stunning that anyone would link to the Alex Jones type freak show.

Augiedog

(2,602 posts)
10. When the recount was first announced I commented that the voting in Waukesha county was the
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 07:52 PM
Dec 2016

place to watch. I was basically hooted at by a couple of writers on DU. One flashed some sort of alleged statistical graph showing apparently an honest tabulation of ballots in past Waukesha counts. Well guess what? Once again Waukesha is turning out to be the most corrupt electoral area in the state. They have lots of practice at this so it's going to take a true forensic specialist to un ravel what they are doing. Nevertheless, they are likely playing fast and loose with the integrity of their ballots. I suspect the Feds are going to have to determine what is going on there. It's highly unlikely that our current state justice department has any interest in seeing an honest tabulation. As a point of fact they have tried to stop the recount.

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