Posts Tagged ‘Kloppenburg’
One Year of Free Wisconsin
The first post under the heading “Free Wisconsin” was headlined “Sleeping Giant Awakes in Wisconsin”. It really reflects my personal waking, as from a cold sweat, trembling nightmare, except that no shaking of the head or pinching of myself could make it go away. It was real.
Thus began a daily posting of the barrage of assaults on the rules, procedures, and dignity of the government of Wisconsin in the long year of GOP control under Scott Walker. My posts are often accompanied with a photo-shop picture or two, so I picked a picture with a caption to trace the evolution of events in Wisconsin over the first six months of the past year.
 The Koch lobbying office on the capital square
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The REAL Koch Bros
February 23rd, 2011 | Author: Dennis Kern The Call was a prank….the lobbying office is REAL |
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A little piece of American SOLIDARITY
March 10th, 2011 | Author: Dennis Kern There was a demonstration in front of the Court House in Richland County, Wisconsin, America at 9:00 a.m. CST on March 10, 2010. I left confident of success and damn proud of Wisconsin! |
 A mother with her children stood bundled against the cold holding hand-made, cardboard with magic marker signs.
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CALL DAN KAPANKE – Update 3-30″
La Crosse area Democrats say they will file petitions today with enough signatures to trigger a recall election of Sen. Dan Kapanke, one of eight Senate Republicans targeted… |
March 15th, 2011 | Author: Dennis Kern
Recall organizer Pat Scheller said volunteers have gathered more than the 15,588 signatures needed and that they plan to take them to Madison after a noon rally today at La Crosse City Hall. It is expected to be the first completed of 19 active recall efforts registered between Feb. 24 and March 2 against 16 senators. |
FROM the LaCrosse Tribune|
April 5th, 2011 | Author: Dennis Kern Why is it important to know who the Koch Bros are? Ask Bernie Sanders the Senator from Vermont who stood on the floor of the Senate for most of a whole day to deliver a good, old fashioned filibuster, which has become known as “The Amazing Speech”, to stop the action that would extend tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans. |
Who are the Koch Bros? Why should I care?
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 What a season of awakening and action with the result: a record breaking, recall of six (to date) Wisconsin GOP Senators facing a recall election in July!
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Summer of UNREST May 1st, 2011 | Author: Dennis Kern This is monumental! This is what Democracy looks like! Count them Darling, Kapanke, Olson, Hopper, Cowles, Harsdorf! All stood with Walker and when Spring came they found the ice melting beneath their feet. Final hour recall drives are still going on for the remaining two of the now infamous GOP 8! |
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Holy!- STEALING WISCONSIN- Sexy! We all suspect that the real problem in the Wisconsin recount is not likely to turn up in the recount of votes because it is quite possible that the votes being counted are already flipped! Why are we not getting to the real suspect issues: Kathy Nickolaus’ criminal history, “special software” given to her alone by the GAB (the board responsible for administrating the state-wide recount), the storage vote counting software on her private computer, the proven vulnerability of the Sequoia (Waukesha) voting system to hacking and manipulation? |
 Sexy Gap Opening in Ballot Bags!
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 The Brad Blog calls the Waukesha recount a “Dog and Pony Show”
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Fraud 9 – Duct Tape (Really!) May 21st, 2011 | Author: Dennis Kern They make it sound the Kloppenburg found a rip in a single ballot bag and are claiming fruad. It wasn’t one bag. It was many bags. Not only did they appear slit, torn, and lapping open the numbering would be an embarrassment to a third grader! To top it off the slit bags were repaired with duct tape! |
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Prosser and Activist Judges June 15th, 2011 | Author: Dennis Kern Justice Shirley Abrahamson accuses the majority of 4 of giving case ‘short shrift’ In hastily reaching judgment, Justice Patience D. Roggensack, Justice Annette K. Ziegler, and Justice Michael J. Gableman author an order, joined by Justice David T. Prosser, lacking a reasoned, transparent analysis and incorporating numerous errors of law and fact. This kind of order seems to open the court unnecessarily to the charge that the majority has reached a pre-determined conclusion not based on the facts and the law, which undermines the majority’s ultimate decision. |
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Waukesha Fraud – Deep Throat Speaks June 17th, 2011 | Author: Dennis Kern An observer of the Waukesha County recount noticed such a small, innocent piece of paper that was spit out of a voting machine in Pewaukee. It was a poll tape from a voting machine on which is recorded your vote. But what caught her eye was the date at the top of the tape: 03-30-2011 or March 30. That was six days before the Supreme Court election of April 5! |
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ALEC – Anti Labor Elderly Children July 15th, 2011 | Author: Dennis Kern How does this activity differ from legislators meeting in party caucus, or designing a party platform for legislative action? - The workings of ALEC are secret. In fact, the existence of the “council” was all but unknown until the past few months even though its influence on Wisconsin legislation can be traced back to the Thompson Administration. - The workings of ALEC have nothing to do with “we the people” or promoting the general welfare, but focus firmly on the “pursuit of happiness” for the already most privileged and wealthy top 1% of the population. The Walker Policies never seemed a match for the historical character of Wisconsin. |
 What if the wealthiest Americans formed a secret organization
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 Round and Round we go expecting different results?
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Election Merry-Go-Round August 10th, 2011 | Author: Dennis Kern Um, Dems better look into what is going on in district 8! MSNBC “With 62% of the vote in the dem had a 52/48 advantage, then, with 63% in the dem had a 51/49 advantage, THEN with a 64% of the votes in the republican had a 51/49 advantage. THAT CANNOT BE! A 1% swing cannot suddenly give the republican 3% points IF previously a 1% swing took away only ONE % point from the democratic challenger. THIS is the “smoking gun” – that should be investigated by the Dems TODAY. It’s PROOF Nicholas sat on democratic votes. Someone needs to get a copy of the MSNBC tape and look at what i was looking at. Again, if a 1% swing at 10pm means 1,000 votes, then, 1% swing at 11pm CANNOT mean 4,000 votes!!!” Posted by Darcy Gustavsson of the Election Integrity group on face book. |
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Hurricane Kathy Rips Wisconsin August 25th, 2011 | Author: Dennis Kern A “KAT 4″ Hurricane made landfall in the City of Brookfield in Waukesha County in April, 2011 leaving 14,000 residents stripped of their votes. The massive storm caught the residents of Wisconsin completely unaware. Few warnings were posted by the Government Accountability Bureau regarding the severity of the storm that left thousands of Wisconsin Residents stripped of their freedoms and at the mercy of the devastating power of special interest groups such as Americans for Prosperity and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) – the shadowy Koch Brothers, big tobacco, insurance companies, and a drug industry consortium. |
 Kathy Leaves Path of Destruction Across State
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Top Story 2011 – Deep Throat Speaks
This was the most read post on the “Free Wisconsin” blog last year.
It was posted Saturday, June 18, 2011 and was read by 2,898 people. The issue of mis-dated poll tape was not addressed by Tim Verhoff, whose opinion was the sole basis for the determination that Waukesha County Clerk, Kathy Nicholaus was innocent of any wrong doing in the Spring Supreme Court Election. She remains in her position today.
A slip of paper is the “deep throat” of the Supreme Court Election Fraud
It is peculiar how the smallest, most innocent, observation can become the “straw that breaks the camel’s back”.
Barb With was volunteering as an observer at the Waukesha recount when she made a glaring discovery. The poll tape that was being counted and matched for votes cast in the April 5 election for Supreme Court Justice was dated March 30, 2011. When she brought the suspicious date to the attention of election officials, they could not come up with any reason for the mis-dated poll tape.
Weeks later Barb appeared before the Assembly Committee for Election and Campaign Reform. This is a portion of her testimony:
An observer of the Waukesha County recount noticed such a small, innocent piece of paper that was spit out of a voting machine in Pewaukee. It was a poll tape from a voting machine on which is recorded your vote. But what caught her eye was the date at the top of the tape: 03-30-2011 or March 30. That was six days before the Supreme Court election of April 5!
I recall the face book messages in the group Election Integrity as she communicated the finding to the group. “Get a picture!”, and she did.
Probably a test?
Ok. You must admit this is well…..suspicious. Her first inquiries about what it was, what it was doing there, and how it came to be in the official recount material, was met with the response, “It was probably a test.” I guess this goes along with the “human error” defense of all that is Waukesha, but look the time stamp on the tape Mary spotted was: 01:40 a.m.!
I know there are dedicated election officials out there, but who would run a test of a voting machine in those wee hours of the morning? Can you imagine the scenario? A person leans over to his/her mate and says: “Honey, I can’t sleep. I’m going down to the Court house and do a quick test of the voting machines”.
No such machine in Pewaukee
The other explanation for the poll tape was something like, “There were no electronic votes cast in Pewaukee,” Response? “Oh. Ok. My mistake. I must not be seeing a poll tape from a voting machine that clearly says, “Pewaukee”. “I must change my medication.” Come on. If there are no such machines in Pewaukee, how did such a poll tape record materialize?
Trying to bury the photos
The people in the Election Integrity group have posted and shared the photos with friends, newspapers, and media and have found something fishy. The links and posts have been deleted from postings or reported to the face book admin as being “inappropriate”. Is someone pulling a “Scott Walker stealing all the papers from his College election” action? There seems to be an attempt to keep the photos out of view and the story hushed.
When this story was first shared on face book – 3:15 p.m. May 26 it was blocked.
The message below appeared on a Bloggers Link:
We are on to something……..????
Another Unanswered Question
To date, no one has come up with a plausible explanation for the poll tape that appeared during the recount process in Waukesha, not even the Government Accounting Board GAB (That is BAG backwards!) See GAB Behind the Curtain post.
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So why hasn’t the GAB demonstrated some concern in the highly irregular March Poll tapes findings?
It turns out that any questions about the integrity of the “The fear is that these companies throw money around is such a way that we do not know that people who are in positions of trust have been compromised. Since the Accenture deal occurred, I haven’t felt good about Kennedy’s performance” The Accenture Deal
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Kennedy’s Vested Interest Kennedy has a long history of chummy ties with the Accenture and Electronic Voting Systems. He pitched the system to the legislature. Do you really think he is going to be fair and impartial in answering questions about poll tapes? |
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The Brad blog has been investigating elections in the country for years, and this is what Brad has to say about the pesky poll tape.
“Worse, if the results printed on the poll tapes are the ultimate proof of the accuracy of results, what happens when — as discovered among poll tapes from the City of Pewaukee in Waukesha County late last week — the “recount” uncovers “Official Results Report” poll tapes dated a full seven days before the actual election was held?’
Prosser was the certified winner of the Supreme Court election and cast a deciding vote on the decision to end collective bargaining rights for workers and families in Wisconsin.
He was certified as the winner before evidence from the recall was published.
1) To date, the GAB has not published the court reporter minutes of the Waukesha recount.
2) The GAB has not published the number of total votes cast in the Supreme Court election.
3) The GAB will not acknowledge whether there is an on-going investigation of the events leading up to the “found vote” by Kathy Nickolaus. They cite the need for confidentiality since Kloppenburg filed a formal complaint. Confidentiality or hiding behind the curtain?
4) The GAB has never said what happened to Kathy Nickolaus’ private computer that held the official vote tabulation for Waukesha County.
5) The GAB has not explained why it gave Kathy Nickolalus “special software” to tabulate the Waukesha County vote.
The information for this post has come through intensive hard work and investigation by the people of the Election Integrity Group, many of whom have been advocating for fair “every vote gets counted ONCE” elections in Wisconsin for years.
Look at the Wisconsin SC Recount BALLOT / POLL TAPE Anomalies
A permanent, online web cache of photo stills revealing just *some* of the GLARING and ALARMING ballot “irregularities” recently seen during the STATE WIDE (VIRTUAL) HAND RECOUNT of the SUPREME COURT ELECTION, held on April 5th, 2011. The following was recently compiled through the collective efforts and shared documentation from many wonderful citizen observers from all over the Great Badger State of WI. The Election Integrity community commends them for all their diligence, tenacity and hard work, and thanks them for the important contribution it’s lending to *all* American Voters. This kind of real time photographic documentation of evidence in real time is, to our knowledge completely unprecedented. EI can use all the Facebook love we can muster…thanks!
The WI Citizens for Election Protecion will deliver a petition to the Government Accountability Board to demand a hand-count of the upcoming recall election votes. It is the Board’s current policy to dissuade clerks for counting ballots by hand. Help protect your vote.
Please share this. Please demand an independent investigation of the GAB and Kathy Nickolaus. Another election is right around the corner, just waiting to be stolen.
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Recalling Wisconsin
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Oh,not so long ago Music in the air Scents of bakery,melons And flowers here and there All of a circling Saturday Around the State House Square |
Not so long ago, I would go to my face book page and read posts about new babies, a friend’s favorite music but only an occasional mention of the politics of Wisconsin. That was before Walker, Fitzgerald, and the GOP control of the legislature. Yes. That was before. Why was I so unaware of the first rumblings of the massive quake about to devastate a pattern of fair play, compromise, and respect that I had grown up with in my home State of Wisconsin? The media and the polls began to suggest that Feingold and Barrett were in trouble and this news was reinforced by an inordinate number of green “Johnson for Senate” signs along the highways and by ways of my travels. Somehow, I could not or would not believe it. Would Wisconsin really give up a leader like Russ Feingold? Would this pale, uneducated, candidate for Governor ever get more votes than Barrett? No. I would not believe it.
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Election day the numbers left us pale Swallowing hard against the news Did I somehow fail? Pray wisdom so not to lose Acceptance or hope of silver linings |
So, the people went over the loses, as after a poor round of golf, checking the score card of their district and State. We all had lost Russ Feingold to a barrage of attacks that, we thought surely, no one would believe. Some districts did fair better than others: Ron Kind over Kapanke was the saving grace of my little world. We all had to face the loss of Barrett to Walker and met the facts with attitude; we would grin and bear it. We had survived Thompson and other Governors. This would pass. We would be more watchful, and surely this would pass.
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Between Valentine’s Day and The Truth A line was crossed Like an arrow through the heart Cupid’s aim was lost Amid cold threats falling as snow |
Then it got scary. The refusal to accept the federal funding for rapid rail, and stoppage of the clean burning incineration project could almost be expected. Then came the unimaginable. The slap in the face of all that was Wisconsin; Walker’s budget repair bill that would hinge on the curtailing the collective bargaining rights for most public employees; a threat which came with a icy authoritarian stab of calling out the National Guard to curtail any public protest. At first, it was like a punch in the gut taking the wind right out of the air itself. A shock was followed by a moment of quiet disbelief. After the quiet, came the storm of unity, solidarity and protest that rocked the State.
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Total Recall When no words remain A spirit is loosened To tend to our pain With Arc bending to justice |
And no words can capture a manifestation of human truth, although we may come close from time to time, yet the scientific expression of eternity is not a digit but a looped, bow-tie symbol. Some called it “The Awakening of a Sleeping Giant” or defined the unity of spirit with slogans; “We Are Wisconsin”, “This is What Democracy Looks Like”. New worlds were created, “Fitzwalkerstan” and “Walkerville” where palm trees flourished as fire fighter’s bag pipes, and a contentious circle of drums declared the new boundaries for a longing for freedom that stretched all the way to Egypt. All I know is that times such as these, these moments, open a portal of light and hope when it is a gift to be alive.
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Fool me once… Ripped and ill marked and torn Human error to a missed moment All lost in an approaching morn Within our grasp another day |
I was so anxious get behind Joanne Kloppenburg in the first election since Walker, that I miss spelled her name in my first post. The goal was set high; to defeat a long time incumbent Supreme Court Justice. Finally, the solidarity and new activism could be put to a unified purpose to win an election against all odds… and the election was won, but only for hours, before an off hand prediction of Walker, “Votes found out of the blue”, came to pass. An apologetic County Clerk from Waukesha, found 14,000 votes…somehow. The “somehow” raised the eye brows of the national press and sparked a state-wide recount. The discovery of ripped and torn vote bags, gaping breaks in the chain of custody, and impossible comparative voter turn out numbers left questions, suspicions, and anomalies that remain unanswered to this day. The air of fraud and incompetence surrounding the Waukesha vote count seemed to trip into another dark dimension of a hidden cloak room of the Government Accountability Board, and hand to hand violence in the chambers of the highest court. Attorney Verhoff filled months with a few pages of explanation that a did not rise to remedy but left a want for justice to be reckoned with on another day.
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Faces of Recall Looking out for you You looking out for… Nothing is left to do But save precious grace |
By some secret stroke of irony the “open meetings – collective bargaining ruling” of July came after a violent encounter behind closed doors in the Supreme Court Chambers, that we would only hear of days later. Even as Walker signed his bill into law, any celebration of victory was hushed. It was a hollow fantasy of words on paper, having won the battle but lost the war, and the trumpet sounded to carry the theme of fantasy forward, before the ink had dried on paper. Dr. Seuss might have written the script. Let’s have a fake election! We will get fake GOP’s to run as fake Dems or fake candidates in a fake election. The whole fake idea failed when each Dem Candidate beat each fake in each district in every case to the tune of a wasted a non-fake $400,000. Now the real history is upon us. The real 1st in the long story of Democracy. There is no precedent for the decision of August 9. The greatest number of state legislators ever to face recall on a single ballot was two, we look at six Statewide!
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Oh, so near at hand Music in the air Scents of bakery, melons And flowers here and there All of a circling Saturday Around the State House Square |
Occupy DOJ mailbox – Demand Waukesha Investigation
The GAB Report “Fulfills the promise”?
Kevin J. Kennedy, director and general counsel of the G.A.B., said he believes Attorney Verhoff’s independent report and the accompanying staff report fulfills the G.A.B.’s promise to give the public a complete accounting of exactly what happened in Clerk Nickolaus’ office on Election Night and in the following days.
If the report is “a complete accounting” then the hole in my sock is the moon.
After reading the full report, one can only wonder why it took five months to complete. Are investigating Attorney Tim Verfhoff and GAB Director Kennedy really this naive about computer technology and programing?
Laptop not subject to audit?
The laptop on which Ms. Nickolaus stores the
spreadsheets/templates and the Access 2007 database was not one of the computers that were the subject the audit. Ms.Nickolaus indicated she did not have security concerns with this laptop because it is used to gather unofficial results in an election. She also stated the laptop must be on the network to send the data to the Canvass Reporting System.
We are to be satisfied that nugget of testimony?
She was not concerned about the security of a laptop that was connected to Canvass Reporting System Network? What? A computer that is on the network is on the network. It doesn’t make any difference what the function is for the individual user, it is on the network. The networks of major banks and CIA have been hacked, and we get an explanation that her computer, that was on the network, was not subject to audit because it was used to gather “unofficial election results”? We are supposed to find this naive, donkey pong, overview of the vulnerability of computer networks…”satisfying”?
Engaging in “conspiracy theories”?
Public trust in the election process is essential.
The poor condition of ballot bags and
potential breaks in the chain of custody of ballot bags can foster an environment where
members of the public begin to doubt the integrity of an election and begin to engage in conspiracy theories. But given the number of individuals in addition to Ms. Nickolaus who would have to be involved in a conspiracy to engage in the type of fraudulent election practices above, it appears highly unlikely to have occurred.
Highly Unlikely to Have Occurred
Since Verhoff and Kennedy have spent the last five months focused on questions of election fraud, do you think they might be aware of other instances where “the number of individuals” were involved in a conspiracy to engage in “the type of fraudulent election practices” they were investigating? In Clay County, Kentucky Some of the most powerful public officials including a Circuit Judge, County Clerk, and School Superintendent corrupted elections over a period of years, buying and stealing votes in pursuit of power and money. This was the ruling of a federal jury in March of 2010.
The report expects us to “be satisfied” that a conspiracy of individuals to engage in election fraud in Wisconsin, here, in the midst of this heightened atmosphere of sharp partisan politics where millions of dollars were poured into the recent recall elections from private interest groups – is unlikely?
Here Come the Conspirators
The likelihood of a conspiracy also is negated when one looks at the results of the election. The vote totals for the City of Brookfield were provided to a reporter on election night and published to the public by BrookfieldPatch. These are the same vote totals ultimately reported to the state Canvass Reporting system the morning after the election, certified by the Waukesha Board of Canvass and confirmed during the statewide recount.
Labeling Conspirators
Here is the ultimate and sweeping label to place on activists who threaten the status and power of the privileged; just call them a cult of conspiracy theorists. Before, Verhoff and Kennedy pull out the “conspiracy” card, it might be wise to look at their motives; what they have to gain, and what money they are following.
Many of the observers of the Waukesha recount were unpaid volunteers who gave of their own time and provided their own meals and transportation to participate in the process. They gathered evidence, took pictures of open vote bags, and produced videos and power point presentations to demonstrate their findings – all with no financial support from any organization or corporation. So, what was the motive then and now? It is clear, that Kloppenburg will not be declared the winner of the election. So why do they continue to conspire? Because 
they are convinced that they hold hard evidence of election fraud. The two most blatant examples:
1) A poll tape that was counted which bears a date of March 30 – two days before the election
2) An inspection report that is clearly falsified as a copy, when it clearly is not a copy.
Another, equally likely, scenario for withholding the election night report of the Brookfield vote from AP, might be the scenario presented in the article Prosser’s Delafield Mission.
It Appears Unlikely – Again
By failing to include the City of Brookfield in the unofficial results Waukesha County posted on election night, it appears Kathy Nickolaus violated the state law that requires her to post all returns. Her actions, however, do not appear to be the result of an intentional act, the refusal to perform a statutory duty or willful neglect. Therefore, her actions do not likely rise to the level of criminal misconduct.
Investigation Report is Riddled with Uncertainties
The major determinations of the investigation report use words “appears likely” and “appears Kathy Nickolau violated state law”. We are expected to be “satisfied” with this “kind of- sort of- maybe” language? The use of this uncertain language suggests the determinations are questionable. If the preliminary investigation is riddled with questions, then obvious action would be to appoint a special prosecutor armed with the judicial powers to examine evidence, bring the matter to trial, and reach a verdict.
Occupy the DOJ Mailbox – Demand an Investigation
The Occupy Wall Street movement is a great public outcry of economic injustice in this country. Yet, if the new energy of the evolving movement abadons the steps of the past in the dust, then activists are only chasing their tails. Activists have worked and organized to develop and document real evidence of election fraud in the Spring Supreme Court Election. Unless this evidence is presented, and further investigated by the Justice Department, it will be lost with the result of leaving us to begin all over again with the next time, the next election, the next instance of “found vote”.
In the two hours after Kathy Nickolaus’ press conference more than 10,000 people signed an on-line petition calling for a federal investigation. In the past two days, about 50 people signed the on-line petition at this most critical time. It is important to demonstrate that even after months of a GAB investigation, we demand the truth.
SIGN Petition to DOJ – Investigate Waukesha
Your message will be sent to Criminal.Division@usdoj.gov
Over 10,000 people signed a petition to 
investigate Waukesha County election results within two hours of Kathy Nickolaus “found” vote announcement.
After five months of investigation, the determination of the Government Accountability Board accomplished little to restore the confidence of voters in our election process.
Please sign the petition to request an investigation by the Department of Justice.
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Most recent Signatures
- Brenda Gregory, Oct 23, 2011
- James Peterson, Oct 23, 2011
- James Peterson, Oct 23, 2011
- Dee Ives, Oct 04, 2011
- Mararet Street, Oct 04, 2011
- Linda Pfeiffer, Oct 03, 2011
- Paul DeBarbieri, Oct 03, 2011
- DEBRA HARTMANN, Oct 03, 2011
- Gretchen Kubeny, Oct 03, 2011
- Tina Congdon, Oct 03, 2011
- R Percey, Oct 03, 2011
- tom neale, Oct 03, 2011
- Cynthia Burkwald, Oct 03, 2011
- Marga Krumins, Oct 02, 2011
- Mary Jorgensen, Oct 02, 2011
- roger straw, Oct 02, 2011
- ELLEN LA LUZERNE, Oct 02, 2011
- Maxwell Raboin, Oct 02, 2011
- Naomi Rivers, Oct 02, 2011
- PEGGY JANECKE, Oct 02, 2011
- Debra Anderson, Oct 02, 2011
- JACKIE JANECKE, Oct 02, 2011
- Robb DeGreef, Oct 02, 2011
- Eric Mills, Oct 02, 2011
- Robert Ribbens, Oct 02, 2011
- Patricia Burlew Cox, Oct 02, 2011
- Phyllis Wendler, Oct 02, 2011
- janet jesberger, Oct 02, 2011
- mary lalime, Oct 02, 2011
- Margaret Street, Oct 01, 2011
- "Fighting" Bob Bergman, Oct 01, 2011
- Ann Stevning-Roe, Oct 01, 2011
- Aaron Agassi, Oct 01, 2011
- Pamela Wall, Oct 01, 2011
- bob gloede, Oct 01, 2011
- Maggie Thomas, Oct 01, 2011
- Jennifer Wilson, Oct 01, 2011
- Shaleen Culbert, Oct 01, 2011
- Dennis Kern, Sep 30, 2011
10-5 / 1:00 p.m. – 54 Signatures!
Your signature will show up on the count ONLY if you confirm via email.
In any case your signing will send a copy of the petition to the DOJ Criminal Justice Department.
I will send a hard copy list of all signers along with most blatant evidence of election tampering via certified mail to the DOJ>
Nickolaus Investigation Moves Forward
Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus has been the subject of an on-going investigation since April.
 Tim Verhoff, who was assigned to investigate Kathy Nickolaus has now completed his assignment and filed his recommendations with the Government Accountability Board. Melissa Mulliken, manager for the Kloppenburg campaign, announced back in July that she had been notified by attorney Tim Verhoff that he was following up on the complaint she filed with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board. His work is complete.The next step is for the GAB to take further action based on his report. Six full months have passed since her press conference two days after the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election. Her “found” 14,000 votes in the City of Brookfeild excited national attention as one of the most bizarre turns in events in recent election history, and as a result, lead many to suspect foul play. Even though she apologized for the finding, calling it “human error”, the door was open for deep concern, suspicion, and demands for an immediate investigation. The GAB sent staff to Waukesha to investigate her vote tabulation process. Not long after that, the GAB itself was called into question since the board was alleged to have supplied her with unique software, not given to any other County Clerk in the State, to use for tabulating the vote, and of all things, on her personal lap top computer. More than 10,000 concerned Wisconsin citizens called for a bipartisan investigation by Attorney General JB Van Hollen in less than 48 hours. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (now candidate for Senator) wrote a letter to the Justice Department. From letter to Justice Department – Eric Holder “To ensure that the April 5 election for Wisconsin Supreme Court justice is free, fair and transparent, and to uphold faith in our democracy for ourselves and future generations, I ask for your immediate assistance in investigating these election inconsistencies in Wisconsin. Specifically, I urge you to immediately assign the Justice Department Public Integrity Section, which oversees the federal prosecution of election crimes, to investigate the questionable handling of vote records in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.” |
As one of a handful of attorneys across the state of Wisconsin to be named to the prestigious “Rising Stars” award (originated by Law & Politics), Attorney Timothy R. (Tim) Verhoff defends people accused of crimes and drunk driving offenses. Attorney Tim Verhoff began astounding people with his abilities during his secondary education, and graduated Summa Cum Laude, the highest recognition. His comprehension and quick-thinking skills were again recognized during his undergraduate degree from UW-Madison where he graduated Cum Laude, and once again affirmed when he earned his law degree and graduated with honors. Attorney Verhoff began his legal career as an assistant district attorney for Dane County. In short order, he graduated from trying low-level shoplifting cases to trying very complex murder, sexual assault and felony battery cases. In January 2011, Attorney Verhoff left the Dane County Prosecutor’s Office to further his passion for protecting the rights of people charged with criminal offenses. He joined Attorney Corey Chirafisi, and together they formed Chirafisi & Verhoff, S.C. As was true for Attorney Corey Chirafisi, who had also served as a prosecuting attorney prior to entering private practice, Attorney Verhoff possesses a very unique advantage in criminal cases: he has tried every level of criminal case from the other side of the courtroom and possesses a unique insight into the prosecution’s legal strategies and methods. Attorney Tim Verhoff brings to each case a tremendously vast and in-depth knowledge of criminal case work and trial experience from thousands of cases ranging in degree from low-level misdemeanors and drunk driving charges to very complex multiple-defendant high-level felony cases. |
We Need Answers
Director Kevin Kennedy and the GAB are on notice; pubic confidence in the Election process has been severely shaken.
We just witnessed how the appointment
of the Special Prosecutor” Bradley to bring light to the choking incident in the Chambers of the Wisconsin Supreme Court lead to nothing more than casting an even darker shadow over the actions of Justice Prosser, who just happens to be the beneficiary of the found vote by Kathy Nickolaus! The long list of questions, anomalies, and new proof of election fraud surrounding the Waukesha recount must be answered. A real special prosecutor must be appointed to examine the mountains of evidence that resulted from the the Waukesha recount.
* Nickolaus dismissed an independent audit commissioned over concerns there are massive security threats in her current system. Nickolaus, who maintains a secret system for keeping public voting data, condescendingly laughed off the audit, drawing an irate reaction from the Waukesha County Board chair.
* Nickolaus
was an employee of the Assembly Republican Caucus when Prosser was the Republican Assembly speaker, and she was one of two database experts for Assembly Republicans, spending 13 years becoming one of the state’s leading partisan experts on manipulating voter data.
* Nickolaus was in charge of developing a computer program that “averaged the performance of Republicans in all statewide races for the previous eight years in each ward and then averaged that information for each city, township, county and district.
* Nickolaus waited over 24 hours after the time she claimed she discovered the vote change before publicly reporting it. 
Two conservative media members reported the change prior to Nickolaus’s late afternoon announcement.
* Nickolaus withheld critical information from the the Waukesha Board of Canvassers. One member says Nickolaus invited her to be at the press conference, but had not given her a full picture of the problem. Also, Nickolaus curiously demanded the canvass begin on Wednesday instead of Thursday, and that the problem with the more than 14,000 additional votes were never brought up at the Wednesday or Thursday canvass by Nickolaus.
*Nickolaus was responsible for the vote tabulation in a county
-where she tabulated the votes 
for the Supreme Court election on her personal laptop with little or no transparency.
-where she tabulated the vote on special software provided by the GAB or, as has come to light more recently, the Department of Administration, which is subject of its own John Doe investigation.
-where the vote bags were open and “winged”, slit open with a sharp instrument and repaired with duct tape, and the numbers on the seal on the bags did not match the report sheets.
-where a poll tape was discovered and counted that bore the date of March 30 or six days before the election.
-where all of the bags, poll tapes, and election materials of the recount where stored in her office throughout the entire recount process.
-where statistical analysis suggests impossible anomalies in the low return vote of Democrats who voted in the presidential election and, who would have needed to switch parties in in the Supreme Court Election for Prosser to win.
We need answers
.00004% Vote Problem Gets 6 Million Fix
Meanwhile – 14,000 “Found Vote” Problem Gets .00004% Fix
Why must progressives and the League of Women Voters, protest, fight, recall, blog, and file suite to illuminate what is an obvious partisan move of the GOP to suppress the vote?
6 Million For Vote Suppression…
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MADISON – A new legal challenge to the Wisconsin Voter ID Law is coming. The League of Women Voters plans to file a lawsuit against Governor Scott Walker and GOP lawmakers, alleging the law is unconstitutional. The requirements involved in the Voter ID Law are among the toughest in the nation. That law goes into effect in 2012, but the League of Women Voters want to put an end to it now. Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice “It’s certainly not a frivolous argument, and one of the reasons they are making those arguments is that under the federal Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court says basically the voter ID requirement is OK, so they have to make their argument under the Wisconsin Constitution,” explained Geske. Geske believes, however, the suit will not go very far.
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Meanwhile .00004% For Vote FRAUD
Why must progressives protest, fight, recall, blog, to get any answers about Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus? But, oh, there is a mountain of circumstantial evidence to warrant a full investigation.
1) The post election meeting 
Prosser had with Walker to which Prosser has given three different responses on three different days: a) It didn’t happen b) I might have met him in the hall c) I don’t think I went to the Capitol that day. Which is the truth?
2) Walker’s response to the press when Prosser trailed by 200 votes, that a recount would be fair unless a bunch of votes turns up somewhere. One day later they did turn up in Brookfield. Was this a slip of revealing what he already knew?
3) The GAB announced that it was conducting an investigation of Kathy Nickolaus and her methods of counting the Waukesha vote, shortly after she made her “human error” public; the error that found 14,000 votes that put Prosser comfortably in the lead and ultimately the victor of the Supreme Court election. The latest update of progress on this investigation by the GAB, which was to be published by the end of June, is that they cannot acknowledge whether the action is on going or when, if ever, it will be complete, because the formal complaint by Kloppenburg has imposed new confidentiality restrictions that apply under state law and prevent any comment.
More evidence?
For more and more evidence of election fraud in Waukesha See “Election Merry-go-Round”
The Mickey Mouse Vote Fraud problem gets 6 Million Dollars for a fix. The Elephant in the Room Election Fraud problem gets no funding, little attention and after more than five months, no answers.
Election Fraud takes money and the kind of covert organization demonstrated by the activities of the Koch Bros. and their pet ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) to draft laws that will allow them to increase profits. One of these activities is to suppress the vote of groups that choose Democrats. Why do you think voter ID requirements have been imposed on, not only Wisconsin, but 10 other
states? Election Fraud requires recruiting, bribing or extorting people to tamper with electronic voting systems machines, hardware, and software. ALEC was created to covertly recruit legislators and people in powerful positions to write legislation, like the new voter ID laws. Do you see any similarities in the mode of operation of the two actions? Both are covert well orchestrated plans carefully designed and implemented to put conservative Republicans in power.
Vote Fraud, on the other hand, cannot be demonstrated to be a real problem that is influencing the outcome of elections in any significant way. So, why is all the money and attention going to correct this non-existent problem? The public hearings on the vote ID legislation provided a clear answer. The people who testified against the bill were representatives of seniors, the disabled, and people of color. Which party do you think most of these people are most likely to vote for? Yep. So it’s in the best interest of Republicans to keep them away for the polls, and they are spending 6 million dollars in poor “broke” Wisconsin to do just that.
Measures to prevent the non-existent Vote Fraud problem are really a masked effort to suppress the vote of groups who would vote Democrat.
Measures to ignore the Election Fraud problem is an effort to keep the mask on the vulnerability of electronic voting systems to prevent Democrats from winning elections. Bush v, Gore – Bush v. Kerry – Kloppenburg v. Prosser….
Pass it on and on and on……
Press Release – GAB “Vote Unconstitutional”
For immediate release;
The tabulation for recording the vote total in Wisconsin elections is a corporate secret.
Kevin Kennedy says that the GAB does not have software developers and uses the DOA for that with elections code. But wait a second the famous election software that Kathy Nickolaus, the Waukesha County Clerk who had an incident of either gross negligence or election fraud that flipped the Supreme Court Race for David Prosser (the Republican), was written by the GAB as previously reported by the GAB, right? Guess the GAB was less than honest as Kevin clearly said, they have no developers on board so contract with the Department of Administration (DOA). Read More
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Way back on April 6 we learned that the Government Accountability Board (GAB) gave Kathy Nickolaus “special software” for her to use in tabulating the vote in Waukesha County.
This is the story in the Democratic Underground
Madison Wisconsin – “Breaking news today in the Prosser/Kloppenburg recount — as it turns out the software that Kathy Nickolaus used the night of the election was written specifically for her. Yes, I am not kidding you. Politiscoop for the last few weeks have been pressing the GAB to explain this. The Fix is on article we published on Sunday, 10 April 2011. Since then we have been asking for answers — we have even emailed the pdf of what we were sent and we have yet to receive an answer from the GAB. Could it be this new revelation played a part in Prosser appearing to have won the election two days before the votes were cast? — We still don’t know and we do not know why there has not been an answer given to us.”
And guess what? We still don’t know! The news that Kathy Nickolaus possessed and used this “made to order” software supplied by the GAB is not a suspicion or some urban myth. It comes from a reliable source you can read for yourself.
Today the website Milwaukee Buzz revealed that a through an open records request an email was sent to county clerks around Wisconsin. It stated the following:
| The email, by Rusk County Clerk Denise Wetzel and addressed to other county clerks in Wisconsin, including Nickolaus, was sent on April 8, the day after Nickolaus revealed the vote-reporting error in a press conference. It reads, “Please note that the program Kathy uses IS NOT the new canvass reporting program that is in the (Statewide Voter Registration System) that we all have been using as of late. It is a completely different program that was created by GAB for Kathy to accumulate her votes prior to uploading them into the program that the rest of us use.” |
Truth is…..NOBODY Knows!
Neither the voter or election officials – the Government Accounting Board, County Clerks, or Governor have access to “secret tabulating software”held by Sequoia/Eagle (a dominant system in Wisconsin) or Diebold voting machines.
If corporations are a person, as defined by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, why are one or two unelected persons, with no public or private oversight, given total and complete control over the accuracy of vote tabulation in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and America?
The President, Congress, and Senate as well as the Governors, legislators, and elected officials of every state are subservient to a few corporations regarding vote counting tabulation.
For ten years we have taken their word that the vote machines, software, and tabulation devices are secure against mounting evidence by a host of organizations and private citizens, that the machines, software, and allegiances of the corporate players are highly suspect to the degree of trusting Bernie Madoff to handle your portfolio.
Sequoia, Diebold are (citizen united) citizens, who are not elected, appointed, or subject to oversight. They are allowed complete authority and full confidence with counting the vote in the United States of America. Why?
If wiki leaks is a matter of National Security deserving a full Federal Investigation, then why not VOTE Leaks. If there was ever a threat to National Security greater than secret vote count tabulation, what could it be?
If ever there was a practice that is more unconstitutional at first glance, than giving vote tabulation results to a few single (Citizens United) people with no oversight, what could it be?
The date and time of the press conference has been going on for more than ten years. For more details and pictures, demand an immediate investigation of the Waukesha tabulation of the vote in the Spring Supreme Court Election.
How to Unseat Prosser
Did you think the role of a Special Prosecutor was to prosecute?
Seems that DA Bradley of Sauk County missed the point in, once again, letting David Prosser off the hook.
She was not appointed as a Special District Attorney; to determine whether a case should be brought to trial, but a 
Special Prosecutor to bring forth evidence to Prosecute David Prosser for a physical attack in the workplace that would have gotten any other worker in any other work place fired. I’m no lawyer but when a Special Prosecutor was appointed, I was relieved that the wrong doers would finally come to trial, and was shocked at her unwillingness or inability to take the matter to court. After weeks of investigation, and interviews, why is the decision to prosecute this outrageous behavior in Wisconsin’s highest court left in the hands of a single County District Attorney acting as Judge and Jury?
How to Unseat Prosser
What hangs over David Prosser like a choke hold, is all of the suspicious allegations surrounding his whereabouts, role, and actions over the past months, that have been covered up, dismissed, or ignored in a way that leads to the question: Who is protecting him? Who is hiding what…and why?
Apparently, friends in high places 
are about to push another instance of this man’s irrational and highly questionable behavior under the rug. How else can one explain his escape from any punishment for actions, that you or I would be dismissed, demoted, or fired for?
The Dominos Will Fall
Clearly, this man needs to be sanctioned, charged, and unseated, but relying on the people in high places promises to be a dead end. Yet, the original sin remains under investigation. He retained his seat on the court through an election that resulted in a recount and an association with one, Kathy Nickolaus who “found” him the 14,000 votes to hold his seat. Documented evidence of election fraud was observed, reported and documented during the recount. It is here, back at the beginning, back with the evidence surrounding Kathy Nickolaus and the Spring Supreme Court Election, where the path to unseat Prosser can be found.
Here, under the Election Fraud rug,
Front to back Prosser, Walker, Kathy Nickolaus, Fitzgerald, Kevin Kennedy, Van Hollen, Darling
The path to unseat Prosser is not to empower the people in high places…but to empower the people by exposing the evidence they gathered.
The privileged and powerful are protected and play by different rules than the citizens they serve.
The GAB, Sheriff’s Department, or Judicial Commission need only announce that they are conducting an “investigation” and the suspects are off the hook. Any inquiries, or questions for detail are simply met with a “no comment the matter is under investigation”. This secrecy would not be held if you attacked someone in your work place, or if your child were caught cheating on a test. Why are the privileged and powerful granted a special privilege of secrecy that you or I would never get?
But, oh, there is a mountain of circumstantial evidence to warrant a full investigation.
1) The post election meeting Prosser had with Walker to which Prosser has given three different responses on three different days: a) It didn’t happen b) I might have met him in the hall c) I don’t think I went to the Capitol that day. Which is the truth?
2) Walker’s response to the press when Prosser trailed by 200 votes, that a recount would be fair unless a bunch of votes turns up somewhere. One day later they did turn up in Brookfield. Was this a slip of revealing what he already knew?
3) The GAB announced that it was conducting an investigation of Kathy Nickolaus and her methods of counting the Waukesha vote, shortly after she made her “human error” public; the error that found 14,000 votes that put Prosser comfortably in the lead and ultimately the victor of the Supreme Court election. The latest update of progress on this investigation by the GAB, which was to be published by the end of June, is that they cannot acknowledge whether the action is on going or when, if ever, it will be complete, because the formal complaint by Kloppenburg has imposed new confidentiality restrictions that apply under state law and prevent any comment.
More evidence?
For more and more evidence of election fraud in Waukesha See “Election Merry-go-Round”
If you want to unseat Prosser demand the circumstantial evidence gathered during the Supreme Court Recount be addressed. Tell a friend. Tell an editor. Only the people will unseat Prosser.
I Don’t Think We Are In Wisconsin Anymore!
Things like this shouldn’t be happening in Wisconsin.
Way back in April when Kathy Nickolaus found the 
14,000 votes in Brookfield more than 10,000 people signed a petition within hours demanding an investigation of the Waukesha County vote tabulation. Five long months have past…
The man pictured right as the fantasy wizard of the investigation Kevin Kennedy, Director of the Government Accountability Bureau (GAB), who launched an investigation into Waukesha just days after the election.
“Come Back Tomorrow”
Just as Dorthy brought the broom from the wicked witch to the great wizard expecting answers, the “Dorthy’s” the Election Integrity group on Face book who observed the recount of the Spring Supreme Court Election, brought wizard Kennedy evidence of fraud including ripped and torn bags, a poll tape dated days before the election, and countless documented breaks in the chain of custody of the vote. They laid them at Wizard Kennedy’s feet and just as the scene in the “Wizard of Oz” he said, “Come back tomorrow”.
Well, he actually released a statement saying that the GAB could not acknowledge whether there was an on going investigation since JoAnne Kloppenburg campaign had issued a formal complaint, thus all details of any investigation were restricted under confidentiality statutes of state law.
Reid Magney, spokesman for the board, said that because a formal complaint was filed with the board by the JoAnne Kloppenburg campaign, accusing Nickolaus of election law violations, new confidentiality restrictions apply under state law.
And we waited and waited in front of the puffing smoke and fire of the GAB. Then 
one day we were told by the Great Wizard that an attorney had been assigned to the case! Read- Waukesha Investigation- News At Last! “Melissa Mulliken, manager for the Kloppenburg campaign, said Wednesday she had recently been notified by attorney Tim Verhoff that he was following up on the complaint she filed with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board.
Tim Verhoff (pictured as “Man behind the curtain” left) was appointed to “look into” the Waukesha Supreme Court election recount in the middle of July. Finally, we might expect some answers.
But Tim’s investigation seems to echo another puff of smoke and blast of fire as we hear the amplified voice of Wizard Kennedy echo through the halls of Oz, “Come back tomorrow!”.
Instead of stepping up and prioritizing the investigation before the Recall Elections to prevent the kind of vote reporting problems that occurred in Waukesha County on, yet another, election night, we have heard nothing.
Toto where are you?
Are we waiting for Toto to bite at the hem of the curtain to reveal the hidden workings and levers that Tim Verhoff and Kevin Kennedy cannot or refuse to find?
10,000 people signed a petition for an investigation, Representative Tammy Baldwin sent a letter to the Justice Department demanding a investigation, evidence has been collected documenting a host of anomalies that have never been addressed.
I don’t think we are in Wisconsin anymore. Toto where are you?
