Dem spokesman accuses GOP of dirty tricks in Waukesha vote count

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/127434893.html

A state Democratic Party spokesman accused a Republican official Tuesday night of tampering with votes in the tight 8th Senate District recall race.

With 10 of 11 Waukesha County wards still out -- including all of those in Menomonee Falls -- party spokesman Graeme Zielinski said, "We believe the election in this contest has been tampered with by Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus.

"She’s sitting on votes. We believe that right now, there are severe irregularities in Waukesha County once again. We believe the very fate of the Wisconsin Senate hangs in the balance and is in the hands of a woman who has already shown extreme incompetence.”

“We believe there’s dirty tricks afoot.”


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http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8662

11:54p CT: I just spoke with Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus to ask her why there was one outstanding reporting unit still unreported (Village of Menomonee Falls, Wards 14, 15 & 21) in her posted results (reposted at link).

She told me: "They were absentee ballots, I just got it in, I'm just printing it. The municipal clerk just faxed it to me 5 minutes ago."

I asked why they were so late in coming, she said: "They were so busy they didn't get their absentee ballots done during the night, so they had to get them done after that."

Within the past hour, the WI Democratic Party issued a statement, accusing Nickolaus of "tampering" with the results. Here is their full statement:
http://www.wisdems.org/news/press/view/2011-08-waukesha-county-tampering


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Neither Sandy or the Democratic Party will issues any statements tonight. Thank you very much for your support tonight

That's just useless.

Actually do something.

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Bring everything to a halt.

May your brief stay be a happy one.

I was always taught to be suspicious of anyone advocating violence.

I am nor aware of too many instances of senior Democratic Party officials so publicly calling out election fraud, I would bet that we are going to see some big news coming out tomorrow.

storm republican campaign headquarters?

a press announcement is the first step in challenging the results i believe.

Right now Patsch should be appointing her chief of staff and planning (very publicly) her transition.

Have we not learned any lessons from 2000?

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Such a strong word... but there you go.

4th is the charm, I can feel it.