Kloppenburg responds to 'shameful' Journal Standard editorial

[SeattleGirl]

From The BradBlog:

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If all continues apace, the article will follow up with details on still more disturbing new "irregularities" discovered recently during the continuing count in Waukesha County and elsewhere across the state, following on our earlier reports of wide-spread irregularities such as"wide open" ballots bags in Waukesha and elsewhere, ballots discovered unsecured on the desk of a city clerk, and inaccurate counting in Milwaukee. In all, the unavoidable fact we continue to see is that, thanks to Wisconsin's woeful election procedures, pathetic chain of custody requirements, and horrible secret vote-tabulation computers, nobody can know for certain whether thousands of ballots being counted today are the ones actually cast by voters on Election Day.

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In the meantime, in her first official public statement since her April 20 press conference announcing her intention to ask for a "recount" and a special investigation of Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus, Kloppenburg speaks out today in an op/ed response to an embarrassingly obnoxious unbylined editorial by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's editorial board published last week.

The Journal Sentinel's three paragraph, anti-democratic (small "d") pot-shot last week --- which may as well have been written by the campaign of Justice Prosser, criminally-inclined candidate who the paper endorsed (even as they failed to disclose that point in their editorial) --- was riddled with evidence-free assertions, and mocked the very idea of a "recount" as a "waste of time", on the grounds that they believe "nothing will change in the election for state Supreme Court."

The paper failed, sadly, to note that more than 2,600 votes have, so far, been discovered as originally mistallied by the state's woeful computerized tabulation systems (and that's with hand counts performed in only 31 of the state's 72 counties) and the inability to confirm, thanks to the blatant violations of chain of custody, that thousands of votes being counted are actually the same as those originally cast.

Link to entire piece: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8524

The Journal Standard is doing what all right wingers do when there is a need for a recount and their candidate may be ahead: "Oh, why do we need a recount? Sore loser!"

Feh! If any race needed a recount, it's this one. Not to mention, a thorough investigation into the shenanigans that apparently went on.

[nofurylike]

it just gets more and more twisted, doesn't it?

"Feh! If any race needed a recount, it's this one. Not to mention, a thorough investigation into the shenanigans that apparently went on."
hear, hear!!

thank you for updating us on this, Punky!

[SeattleGirl]

(05-16-2011 11:02 PM)nofurylike Wrote:  it just gets more and more twisted, doesn't it?

"Feh! If any race needed a recount, it's this one. Not to mention, a thorough investigation into the shenanigans that apparently went on."
hear, hear!!

thank you for updating us on this, Punky!

I am so happy that Kloppenburg is standing strong on this!

[nofurylike]

(05-16-2011 11:04 PM)Punky Wrote:  I am so happy that Kloppenburg is standing strong on this!

me too, Punky!
imagine where we would all be if every candidate had done so! breaks my heart, all over again, to think of it.
and it makes her all the more a hero, in my view!

[Cha]

Wow! She's Good! JoAnne Kloppenburg knows the law and shame on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, indeed!

Posers.