Aren't these the same votes that nobody knew about, because the Waukesha Clerk didn't push save?

certainly suspicious. quite extraordinary, the changes that can occur when you call in the big boys who rigged bush's win. now, will WI and Kloppenburg roll over and play dead?

53% turnout when the statewide was 33% ???

That's a heckuva lot of civil pride in Brookfield.

Jeremiah, yes, these are the results the clerk says she failed to save / include in her election night final countywide tally.

Isn't this article from yesterday? I thought the clerk just realized her error today?

I posted this article and chart at 12:24 a.m. on election night, using data handed to me from the City of Brookfield clerk's office, not from Waukesha County. Lots of confusion about this. This came straight from the city ON election night. These are the results County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said today that she failed to properly save and include in the countywide total she released to AP on election night.

It seems pretty clear that this news story confirms Nickolaus' explanation. The votes were tallied by the city and released by the city to the media on Tuesday night. The vote totals for the city have not changed between Tuesday and the Thursday press conference. It seems to be a simple question--were they reported by the county (Nickolaus) to the state or not on Tuesday, and pretty easy to confirm. If they were not reported, she made a mistake, and the new total is correct. If they were, it would be apparent from the data that she forwarded to the state. While Kloppenberg fans may be unhappy about the way it came about, there i nothing to suggest any intentional skullduggery on Nickolaus' part.

Except that the statement about failing to properly save and include the totals is already exposed as a lie. She uses Microsoft Access database, which auto-saves everything. As soon as she imported the numbers, the database had them in it. When she closes the file, it does not ask if you want to save like other programs (such as Excel), it's already saved. Even if your Windows PC crashes right after you had imported all of the data, the database had already saved it to disk. She's clearly LYING.

Morgan, it's pretty clear that you don't know a thing about statistics. Here's the actual breakdown:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/vote-counting-error-in-wisconsin-points-to-incompetence-not-conspiracy/

@TD, when presented with verifiable facts about the nature of the software program she admits she uses, your only defense is that because I wasn't in her office (you know, the office where she keeps the election data on a computer that ONLY SHE CAN ACCESS) my statement about Microsoft Access' autosave feature must be called into question? What an obvious shill.

BillB - Madison and Dane County each saw 54 percent of registered voters at the polls. Yes just as prideful as the libs

City of Brookfield must be so inundated with questions that it posted this today on city web site: http://www.ci.brookfield.wi.us/DocumentView.aspx?DID=1560

I didn't know that the Associated Press was the official declarer of election victories. In my state, the election isn't over till the Secretary of State verifies the results.

"At the news conference with Nickolaus, Ramona Kitzinger, the Democrat on the Waukesha County Board of Canvassers, said: "We went over everything and made sure all the numbers jibed up and they did. Those numbers jibed up and we're satisfied they're correct."
As a Democrat, she said, "I'm not going to stand here and tell you something that's not true."

Is there really anything more that needs to be said?

The problem lies with the associated Press not doing their jobs. Since when had God appointed a bunch of low IQ reporters as the final judge of all elections?

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Hey, I'm sure the democrats will investigate this and if there is any fraud it should be addressed. But don't come off talking about somebody rigging Busdh's election wins. It was Al Gore who tried to steal the election, it was Acorn getting caught in voter fraud all over the country, it is Acorn who has employees going to jail for voter fraud. Also how do you thing Al Franken got elected. He was losing but after about five recounts they finally found enough votes for the win. You want to talk about voter fraud, talk to the two experts, the unions and Acorn. You want to talk about voter fraud, clean up your own back yard first. Like I said, if there was voter fraud here, the people should be jailed, until then you have no case.

If you remember The elder Mayor Daley in Chicago - he would always withold the Cook County votes until all the downstate conservative votes were counted - so he would know exactly how many liberal votes were needed to win. From here in Florida, it seems that the Unions and Liberals in Wisconsin are moving from one failure to another without any loss of enthusiasm.

I find it comical that the crooks of all crooks are accusing another of doing just that."Talk about the Pot calling the kettle black" If Brookfield votes are gonna be investigated then so should Dane counties votes. you know the county with 10,000 mysterious votes?

One must remember that if a Democrat wins by 200 votes, it's a big win! On the other hand, if a Republican wins by 7,000+ votes, its highly suspicious and demands a money wasting recount!

Listen, this is not Nickolaus' first rodeo. She owed someone in the Republican party a big favor! And they called it in. Yeah that's just my "theory". But it's plausible considering all the other BS that Walker and the Fitz Bros have put this State thru. Frankly, the State needs to fund a recount. The seals need to be broken and every single vote vetted and counted. By no means is this an automatic "win" for Prosser. Besides, wouldn't Prosser himself want to be elected without suspect? Everything that has been done since day one of the Walker adminstration has been an "end around", "bending the law". So this is no surprize.

Some of you are embarrassing yourselves - this was an election for a State Supreme Court justice. The race attracted $3 million of out of state money - blatant interference with your sovereign State affairs. Wisconsin residents should be adult enough to do this themselves and keep the Washington politicos and New York press buzzards away. Have some self respect Wisconsin.