Hot Post: Miraculous GOP Turnaround Causes Michael Moore to Drop the Act and Ask Obama to Disenfranchise Wisconsin
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First, Stephen Hayes’ sources in the state tell him “the paper trail on the votes will be obvious and difficult for anyone to dispute. Either votes from Brookfield were counted in the initial tally or they weren’t.” Second, the numbers have been vouched for by Ramona Kitzinger, who is not only a Democrat member of the canvassing board, but the Vice Chair of the Waukesha County Democratic Party. Third, left-leaning number-cruncher Nate Silver also took a closer look, and says things appear on the level, mainly because the addition of Brookfield brings the numbers more in line with expected voter turnout:
In the gubernatorial election in 2010, Waukesha County, a Republican stronghold, had the highest turnout among the 72 counties in Wisconsin. Of its 261,405 registered voters, 188,278, or 72 percent, cast a legal ballot in that race, well above Wisconsin’s statewide turnout of 62 percent.
The county also had above-average turnout in the primary in February, in which Mr. Prosser, the incumbent, and Ms. Kloppenburg won the two spots on the general-election ballot in a four-candidate contest: the county’s turnout in the primary was 14 percent, compared with the state average of 12 percent. The same holds true for the presidential race of 2008, when 89 percent of the county’s registered voters cast ballots, compared with 86 percent for Wisconsin as a whole.
By contrast, when Waukesha County’s results in the judicial election were first announced results on Tuesday night, the turnout appeared to have been 42.3 percent, slightly below the statewide average of 42.7 percent. Now, with the Brookfield ballots included, the county’s total is now 47.8 percent, more consistent with its past pattern of slightly exceeding the statewide figure.
Indeed, local blogger Ryan Morgan thought the initial numbers were off the day before the error came to light (hat tip to Wendy Robinson):
I could very well end up with egg on my face, but given we’ve already seen that AP can be inaccurate, I am starting to EXPECT that we will soon discover that there are 10,000 to 16,000 more ballots in Waukesha county than what AP has reported.
Lastly, it’s worth noting that the numbers actually were recorded all along in Brookfield’s own records; they simply didn’t get passed along to the AP, which, last time I checked, isn’t a government agency and doesn’t get to officially certify anything.
After such a dramatic, humiliating reversal of fortune, it’s only natural that leftists will let the mask slip in anger and despair. Some will regain their composure, but we shouldn’t let their true colors be forgotten.
