New Post on Palmer Report...Wisconsin (another update on Waukesha County)

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37. Not only "able"... but it's easy

http://www.palmerreport.com/news/vote-totals-shift-donald-trump-pennsylvania-1-recount/357/

The story out of Pennsylvania the day after the 2016 election was that Donald Trump had won the state in a shocking upset by a mere 70,638 votes. Those totals, which were supposedly final and came directly from the Pennsylvania precincts themselves, were widely reporting – including in this USA Today article. But after major voluntary revisions by various precincts, Trump’s already tiny lead has now shrunk considerably – and this is all before the impending state recount.

The revisions are in no sense "voluntary" since counting absentee ballots and reviewing provisional ballots are actually required by law. Nor would the earlier counts be "supposedly final" (for exactly the same reason).

Then there's the misleading (http://www.palmerreport.com/news/despite-judges-ruling-most-wisconsin-counties-voluntarily-agree-to-hand-recounts/312/)

Despite the state government’s best effort at preventing a hand recount, most of the ballots cast in the 2016 presidential race in Wisconsin will indeed be counted by hand. The Republican-controlled state went to court to try to limit Jill Stein’s recount to nothing more than a machine or “optical scan” recount, which is far less likely to reveal errors or fraud – and a judge ruled that each Wisconsin county could decide on its own whether to recount by hand or machine. But as it turns out, most have agreed to do it by hand.

The reality here is very different from Palmer's spin. Nobody argued that the recount should be limited to machine counting... nor is there any "despite". State law says that each county gets to decide on their own which method is most appropriate for their situation. In the majority of cases, hand counting is preferred, but not in all. Stein wanted the court to ignore the law and order 100% hand counting... and lost. There is no "despite" since all of the counts are pressing forward exactly as they would have if the case was never attempted. The counties didn't "voluntarily agree" to Stein's request... they did just what they were already going to do.

More falsehood here:
http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/ahead-of-recounts-erred-trump-favor/306/

Ahead of recounts, three states admit they “erred” in Trump’s favor by thousands of votes

This yet again deceives the reader into thinking that the normal counting/canvassing/etc process is actually an "admission" of "error".

Then there's the lie about the "Wisconsin votes uncovered by the hand recount that the machines missed" (which were just mock-ups on sample ballots)

http://www.palmerreport.com/news/wisconsin-votes-uncovered-recount-counting-machines-missed/329/

In other instances, voters circled the name of the candidate they were attempting to vote for, because the instructions never did say anything about how they were supposed to mark the candidate they were voting for.

This ridiculous claim despite the fact that the sample ballot clearly shows those directions.