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Wisconsin Recount

By: GreyCloak (Diary)  |  April 21st, 2011 at 04:50 AM  | 

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Back in 2000, Billy Daley prolly had to sit at the Kids’ Table Christmas, ’cause he couldn’t steal enough votes in Florida to overturn an election. The US Supreme Court had to step in and order the Florida Supreme Court to follow its own rules. Make no mistake: in Bush v. Gore, the ruling was “follow your own rules,” and THAT followed an earlier severe warning that would have allowed Florida to save face.

Eleven years later, Justice David Prosser fell 171 votes short of a sure win … and the Democrat challenger has filed suit to try to gain back over 7,000 votes in a “free” recount that will cost Wisconsin taxpayers over $500,000. Even if the recount weren’t free, the Democrat would only have to pay $34,530.

A summary of the problem can be found here. This, in a State known for buying votes with wine or cigarettes. Even KOS wonders about previous elections.

Hey, there has to be a cut off somewhere, be it 1 or 171 votes. But I hope Wisconsin will remember what one person’s (and Party’s) ambition cost the State and its taxpayers.

I am generally opposed to increasing the Federal Criminal Code, but it might help if the penalties for Election Fraud were made equivalent to those for Treason, even though convictions may take far longer than the terms of the people elected.

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  • carolina

    where they have some older voting machines.
    They will grind this out.
    Meanwhile the legal challenges move slowly through the courts. At least I have been happy to read about a number of communities that have been sticking to their guns and not rolling over for the unions in the interim.

  • albro62

    I’m wondering if all these union workers who love the democrat party so much realize that it was a democrat controlled congress that wrote the tax law and foreign trade agreements that sent all their jobs over seas.

    And for the simple and greedy reason of having these workers end up on unemployment and welfare lines, to guarantee the dems votes!

    With all our factories in mothballs, and the original factory work force at a technological disadvantage, who will build our planes, ships, subs, tanks, weapons if the event of war? China?

  • YnotNOW

    I doubt it requires increasing penalties in the criminal code, just more consistent and VISIBLE enforcement. Thorough investigation, and then public humiliation of the perpetrators. If people thought that they had little chance of getting away with it (instead of the current little risk of getting caught), then they would think twice.

    And more importantly, people would trust their elections more. This is essential in a representative republic.

  • bk

    Had Prosser asked for a recount after losing by 171, he’d have been branded a sore loser who couldn’t accept reality when he clearly lost fair and square despite all the Koch money that was poured in blah blah blah.