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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 tentacles of the Koch Brothers

The Koch lobbying office on the capital square

The REAL Koch Bros February 23rd, 2011 | Author: Dennis Kern The Call was a prank….the lobbying office is REAL Judging from the cozy conversation Scott Walker had with the prankster David Koch, one might suspect that similar calls could be made from this quaint little office.

Rally in Richland Center

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. It will never go in Wisconsin in the long run; not with these Wisconsin born and bred people of strong and tested will in opposition. 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.

The First GOP Senator triggered for recall

CALL DAN KAPANKE – Update 3-30″ FROM the LaCrosse Tribune 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.

Most consistanly read post

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?

Summer of recall campaigns and elections

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!

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!

The “found” votes

Holy!- STEALING WISCONSIN- Sexy! May 5th, 2011 | Author: Dennis Kern 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!

Vote bags in Waukesha ripped, torn, and even duct taped

The Brad Blog calls the Waukesha recount a “Dog and Pony Show”

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!

The curtailment of collective bargaining becomes law

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!

The covert workings of the American Legislative Exchange Council is exposed

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

The Government Accountability Board and Kathy Nickolaus

Round and Round we go expecting different results?

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.

More and more nasty weather in Waukesha

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

The adage, “The hurrier I go the behinder I get”, falls in the face the GOP legislature (I hope you enjoy that image as much as I do)

It is true. Due to the rush and radical method used by the Fitzgerald Brothers to draw the new voting districts in Wisconsin, some vote districts were designated as part of Africa.

“We’re not only changing and moving districts, we’re changing the system beneath it,” said Julie Glancey, the Sheboygan County clerk. “We had many, many voters who showed up (on the computer map) on the coast of Africa and we had to drag them back to the state of Wisconsin and put them where they belonged.”
Article JSOnline

In the Rush to Shove Bill after Bill Down the Legislative Funnel – Oh What a Mess!

Have you noticed how nearly every legislative action by Scott and Jeff Fitzgerald over the past year has been accomplished with the stealth and hurry of a cat burglar? Of course, when you are stealing cookies from the jar, you do so with a look over your shoulder and a quick lift and snatch. The Fitzgerald Brothers have shared that same stealthy and fearful attitude in their vote-cookie-thieving leadership of the legislature; scheduling meetings with the most limited notice and in the dark of night, and always in a rush to get to the vote. So, what are they afraid of?

Eventually, thieves make a mistake and the cookie jar tumbles off the top shelf with a horrible mess of broken crockery and crumbs. That is exactly what has happened in their “Great Voting District Caper”.

Oh What a Mess They Made of Wisconsin

The result of the Fitzgerald methods goes beyond political shuffling and into sheer incompetence. All they needed was Kathy Nickolaus to draw the vote district lines to seal the deal of such a sheer unfathomable result. Headline – 14,000 Votes Found in Zimbabwe!

In decades past, new district lines were fashioned through the thoughtful insight of the people who actually lived in each local district. Town Boards, Village and City officials had first mark in drawing of new maps. Of course, that was not good enough for the Fitzgeralds. They were out to do it their way, with full control, so that lines could be drawn to benefit their own agenda and make it easier for Republicans to get elected. To do this they used taxpayers money, from a broke state, to hire attorneys from Michael Best Law firm to draw the maps using Census Bureau geographic data, which is accurate to about 50 meters or in other cases 1500 miles!

Beside the chaos that has been visited on county clerks, the district line ramming is now under legal question in the district courts as the Fitzgerald duo attempt to hide the means of their methods from the public.

In Case You Wondered – Why a Recall?

Even many life long Republicans see through the ruse. Many GOP voters have no greater tolerance for sheer incompetency and waste of money than anyone else. The drawing of vote district lines is just one example of a full year of legislative stealth and hurry resulting in incompetent laws and waste of taxpayers money.

Without going way back to Walker’s poor to insane handling of the collective bargaining issue, just two weeks ago Scott Walker’s campaign and the head of the Wisconsin Republican Party sued the Government Accountability Board, saying the board’s current process for reviewing signatures on recall petitions is unconstitutional and asking the judge to order it to be more aggressive in its review. Walker picked a judge from, where else?, Kathy Nickolaus country; Judge Mac Davis. His words in granting Walker relief serves to underscore the stealth and hurry of nearly every legislative action of the GOP since last February:

“This is the kind of case in which speediness is especially critical,” Davis said
Allowing the recall groups to intervene could open the door for other citizens to demand a place at the table, and that could lead to “chaos”.
Waukesha Judge Rule

Five more days remain to sign a petition to recall Scotts Walker and Fitzgerald to end the mess that is being made of Wisconsin.

A recall election to oust Republican Gov. Scott Walker from office could cost at least $9 million.

Wow! This is even more than Kleefisch projected in her TV ad by using simple math. She came up with a figure closer to $7 million.

GAB Director Kevin Kennedy cautioned that Friday’s numbers are estimates and election costs can vary. Republicans still pounced on the numbers, saying the state can’t afford recall after recall.

This is the classic “tail bites dog” story, that ever be told.

Since the story casts the donkey icon and democrats as the spend-happy villains, it might be pegged as more of a “tail bites ass” story. Anyway, Wisconsin republicans place the onus for the $9 million on the democrats, like the recall action targeting Walker/Kleefisch is a frivolous effort that is being orchestrated without real cause, or as Rebbecca Keelfisch says in her TV ad, “We already made our choice, back in November, just a while ago”. Life is so simple when you are pulling down $76,261 (after the recent increase) for being a former news anchor turned poster child and captain of the Walker cheerleading squad.

Kleefisch Plus Alter-Voice

Hey, GOP – Democracy is Free

The democrats did not just get together and do this in the dark of night. Wisconsin voters amended the state Constitution over 84 years ago. In 1926 laws were passed to allow for the recall of state officials. The democrats didn’t just post a late night meeting on March 9, 2011 to pass the recall legislation as did the republicans to end collective bargaining rights – a procedure resulting in an injunction in Dane County Court until it was finally ok’d by the state supreme court in mid June, following a choking incident, in a 4 – 3 decision. One of the four, Prosser, was elected under questionable found votes in Waukesha. Another of the 4, Gableman, is now under investigation for ethics violations for his “free defense” by Michael Best Law Firm.

But a Recall Election is too costly.

The democrats did not hire lawyers from Michael Best law firm to gerrymander the rules for recalling elected state officials, as the republicans did to draw new voter districts in their favor – a maneuver that is being reviewed by District Courts and has caused a mess of confusion as to who represents who in the state government.

But a Recall Election is too, too costly.

Not one associate of any democrat in the state senate or assembly has been granted immunity in a John Doe investigation in the past year, but the GOP and Walker cannot say the same. Associates of Scott granted immunity are: Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie, and GOP official Rose Ann Dieck, while associate Andrew P. Jensen Jr. was arrested for refusing to cooperate with the FBI investigation. Then of course William Gardner, president and chief executive officer of Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co., whose company received grants from the state totaling $14 million, was sentenced to two years’ probation after pleading guilty to two felony violations of state campaign finance laws for exceeding the donation limits and laundering donations to Walker and other Wisconsin politicians. Not to mention the recent arrests of Walker’s former top aid Tim Russell, and his Milwaukee associates Brian Pierick and Kevin Kavanaugh who was Walker’s appointee to the Milwaukee County Veteran Service Commission, for charges including embezzlement and child enticement charges.

But a Recall Election is too, too, too costly.

The simple solution is to rescind the $14 million in grants from the convicted felon, William Gardner, and apply it to the cost of the recall elections and there would still be $5 million left over to launch a real investigation of Waukesha County Clerk, Kathy Nicholaus.

Or just buy a can of “democracy” shaving cream for 99 cents shave the whole Wisconsin executive, legislature, and court system clean.

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.

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 Wisconsin electronic voting system strikes deep into the heart and history of GAB Director Kevin Kennedy. Jim Mueller has been looking at the integrity of Wisconsin elections for many years, and had this to say about GAB’s Kevin Kennedy. “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 Article By Mike McCabe November 26, 2004 Can you believe it? They want to privatize our highways, our university, our museums and now our elections. Egad! Kevin Kennedy, executive director of the state of Wisconsin’s Elections Board, signed a contract with a multi-national calling itself Accenture (it was part of Enron-tainted Arthur Anderson) to create “a total management package to run our elections.” Hello? See Bill Lueders’ column in Isthmus for the full, disturbing story, and then ask, What in the world is wrong with Kevin Kennedy?/

No public hearings were held on the outsourcing of our elections to a company–one that is based in Bermuda to avoid taxes in this country. When I called the Elections Board on Wednesday, I was told that it is, in essence, too late to complain because the contract has been signed. Really? Is it too late to fire Kennedy, appoint a new board, and cancel the contract? I don’t think so. Call the elections Board and demand that they cancel this contract. Believe it or not Mr. Kennedy, the citizens of Wisconsin are quite capable of managing our own elections. 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?

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 sign petition link

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.

The Wisconsin ACLU mission As part of its mission to ensure the integrity of individual ballots as well as election results in Wisconsin, the Board continues its commitment to working with municipal and county election officials and local and statewide law enforcement agencies to prevent errors and opportunities for voter fraud and to detect and prosecute cases of illegal voting which may occur. ACLU—–207 East Buffalo Street Suite 325 Milwaukee, WI 53202 Phone (414) 272-4032 Fax (414) 272-0182 liberty@aclu-wi.org

Wis. GAB Office Hours: M-F, 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Call us at (608) 266-8005 for general inquiries. Call our Help Desk at (608) 261-2028 for technical assistance. Call us toll-free at 1-866-VOTE-WIS E-mail us at gab@wi.gov or visit our G.A.B. Staff page for a directory. web mail GAB Send us a fax at (608) 267-0500.

Department of Justice E-mails to the Department of Justice, including the Attorney General, may be sent to AskDOJ@usdoj.gov. Department of Justice Main Switchboard – 202-514-2000 Office of the Attorney General Public Comment Line – 202-353-1555

Want to steal an election? Mount a frivolous law suite? Do you want to BE somebody? Drink the Waukesha KOOL AID!

Where did Prosser go to find 7,000 votes when he was in danger of losing the Spring Supreme Court Election? Where will you find a County Clerk who stole an election and remained in office? Where would you go to find Judge J. Mac Davis to challenge Walker’s recall? Welcome to the Branch (as in Davidian) Club System in Waukesha County!

The birth of the Branch Club system over 40 years ago was an innovation and a departure from established political procedures. It came about because Republican leaders recognized the need to expand the base of the party and to bring the Party closer to the precinct level.
Waukesha GOP

The latest offer to drink of the Waukesha Kool Aid comes from Judge J. Mac Davis. The judge is one of those who likes to hide his face from the public on the net, but that is the judge pictured left.

His background would suggest that he might just have it “in” for any and all Democrats. Davis was a Republican state Senator over 20 years ago, and during the final years of the Bush administration, he was nominated for a federal circuit judgeship, but the nomination was never taken up by the Democratic-controlled Senate. Perhaps, his loss of a federal judgeship that ended his rise in the judiciary might be a reason to preside over a frivolous lawsuit presented by Walker stating, of all things, that Walker’s 14th Amendment Rights have been stomped on. After all, the governor is just a poor, powerless, citizen without voice or resource to protect his right to foist the wishes of the Koch Bothers, ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) down the the throats of the families of Wisconsin.

Once you drink of the Waukesha Kool Aid, this kind of justice will make perfect sense!

When asked for comment, the state GOP sent TPM this comment from communications director Ben Sparks: “The Republican Party of Wisconsin is committed to ensuring that Wisconsin electors are not disenfranchised during this recall process. The Democrats have shown they are committed to preserving the status quo, where a man is able to sign a recall petition 80 times, and their frivolous attempt to intervene in this lawsuit only reinforces their willingness to force this baseless recall on Wisconsin voters at any cost. TMP Article

The word “Disenfranchised” induced a Waukesha KOOL AID Overdose Flashback

During the recount in Waukesha the “disenfrnachised” word was repeated by the attorney’s representing Prosser, who went to Delafield to find out “what the hell was going on”. It was argued that the votes in ripped, torn, and mis-labeled bags should be counted so as not to “disenfranchise” Republican voters.

Evidence and documented proof of election fraud was ignored or dismissed by Tim Verhoff, who was given full and final say over the fate of Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nicholaus. The following account is just one of many of the blatant anomalies that were dismissed by Verhoff.

The reoccurring pattern of open, winged, and improperly marked bags became a disturbing merry-go-round, time after time, in the Waukesha recount. Each time the an objection came around retired Judge Mawdsley (the replacement County Clerk for recused Nickolaus) gave the brass ring to Prosser and ordered the votes to be counted.

Item C Friday 4/29 Town of Delafield Wards 3 & 4 2 Ballot bags were placed on the ballot counting table. Bag 1 of 2 was closed, tagged and labeled on the inspector’s Statement with seal #3167633. Bag 2 of 2 was closed, tagged and labeled with seal #3164850. Seal #3165447 was originally listed on the inspectors’ Statement. See picture. The Chief Inspector who signed the document, testified that she “just wrote the ‘wrong number’ down on the Inspectors’ Statement” and then corrected it. We objected to the ballots in bag #2 being counted; the BoC determined that the Chief Inspector had given sufficient enough explanation for the overwrite and proceeded to open and unpack the ballots. Our objections were noted and the report was entered into the record as an exhibit.

Saving the best Delafield example for last. The Bag Within A Bag story.

Item D Town of Delafield Wards 7 & 8 When this bag was placed on the ballot counting table, it was immediately apparent that the original seal number – #3166588 – had been crossed out on the label. The new tag seal #3165444 closing the bag matched the new number on the label, initialed by Town of Delafield municipal clerk Mary Elsner. However, the Inspectors’ Statement originally showed Seal tag #3167090 (not # 3166588) crossed off and replaced with #3165444. The Municipal Clerk offered the following written explanation: “When the Chief Inspector delivered the ballot bags to the Town Hall on the evening of 4/5/11, it was discovered that the weight of the ballots caused a slight tear in the bag. We [she and her deputy town clerk] replaced the seal, crossed out the original seal number, initialed the cross out and entered the new number on the ballot bag and resealed it with the new number.” She submitted a written statement to that effect, for the record. But that statement, made no sense for two reasons: 1)it did not explain why the original seal #’s were 3166588 on the bag, but 3167090 on the Inspectors’ Statement, and 2) it did not explain how or why the actual ballots were found in a clean ‘extra’ ballot bag inside the original ballot bag. So the JK recount team asked the Town Clerk to explain how that could happen. Upon further questioning, she settled on the following story: A ballot bag was prepared, filled and sealed at the polling place on election night. When it was delivered to the Town Hall, the Municipal Clerk decided that it had been improperly sealed (the edges had not been folded under.) So she cut off the tag, folded the bag properly, and attached a new seal. Before she could write the second seal # on the label and the Inspectors’ Statement, she decided the bag was too heavy. So she clipped the second tag seal, took out all the ballots, repackaged them into a clean, unused ballot bag and placed that back into the first (original, supposedly torn) ballot bag. She then sealed and put a new, third seal tag on the original bag, duly noting the number on the label and the Inspectors’ Statement.

So, Prosser’s “what the hell is going on in Delafield” begins to take the shape of a tampered ballot bag

Through all tragi/comedy of bag errors – ballots appear to be stuffed. What does all this Delafield stuffing have to do with the 14,000 votes “found” in the City of Brookfield? You know the old adage about a skunk does not scent it’s own hole? It would be too obvious to ransack the bags in the ward where the votes were “found”, but it might serve as a diversion for all the the activity in Genesse and Delafeild. New Spring Election Fraud Details

Occupy Waukesha KOOL AID PARTY

What are you doing on Friday, January 6?
Go to Albanese’s Roadhouse and drink the KOOL AID!

Attention: All Waukesha County Republicans Join us for January’s's Pints & Politics Friday, January 6, 2012 Albanese’s Roadhouse 2301 Bluemound Road Waukesha, WI 53186 Time: come on over any time from 6:00pm to 9:00pm Statewide Offices and US Senate/Congressional Office Holders: Governor/Lieutenant Governor: Scott Walker Rebecca Kleefisch US Senate: Ron Johnson Attorney General: J.B. Van Hollen State Treasurer: Kurt Schuller Congressional Seats: District 1 Paul Ryan District 5 Jim Sensenbrenner State Legislature: 5th Senate District: Leah Vukmir 8th Sentate District: Alberta Darling 11th Senate District: Neal Kedzie 13th Senate District: Scott Fitzgerald 28th Senate District: Mary Lazich 33rd Senate District Rich Zipperer 14th Assembly District: Dale Kooyenga 24th Assembly District: Dan Knodl 31st Assembly District: Steve Nass 33rd Assembly District: Chris Kapenga 38th Assembly District: Joel Kleefisch 83rd Assembly District: Dave Craig 84th Assembly District: Mike Kuglitsch 96th Assembly District: Bill Kramer 98th Assembly District: Paul Farrow 99th Assembly District: Don Pridemore

Election Fraud in Russia?

Hillary Clinton’s State Department is up front and center to underscore the allegations of election fraud in the recent parliamentary elections. Tens of thousands protested in Moscow and cities like Khabarovsk. They alleged widespread fraud in last week’s parliamentary elections and had angry words for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whose party dominates the parliament.

STEVE INSKEEP It’s MORNING EDITION from NPR News
I am really far away from the capital. I’m in the city of Khabarovsk (Map left), But speaking to people out in the streets today in this city, the voice that really stuck with me, Steve, was a woman named Natalia Alexandrovna. She didn’t give me her full name out of fear for her job. She’s a 42-year-old mom. Russian Election Protests Biggest in 2 Decades

What About the U.S.A.? What About Wisconsin? What About Ohio, Florida? What About Waukesha? (Map right)

If Waukesha County or the States of Ohio and Florida where in Russia, would the State Department and the Justice Department step up to the issue of election fraud? Unfortunately, we know the answer. A long and slow NOOOooooo. The hypocrisy of the spontaneous outcry of Russian election fraud swirls blizzard like, while Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nicklaus sits in her cozy office unscathed. Well, Kathy did get a nasty reprimand for her mishandling of the election returns in her county over the past ten years, which finally resulted in the “find” of 14,000 votes in the Spring Supreme Court Election.

If Waukesha, Wisconsin were Khabarovsk, Russia?

If it were so, would the Tim Verhoff (pictured on map at right) report been accepted as the final determination in the matter of Waukesha and Kathy Nickolaus? Apparently not. Not if the evidence of documented election fraud were to occur in Khabarovsk. Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (pictured on map far right) would have issued strong words as to the need to expose and investigate evidence of election fraud in Khabarovsk. But not Waukesha.

Christmas came early to Waukesha County Clerk Nickolaus this year.

Jolly Old K Nickolaus Lean your ear this way Don’t you tell a sing soul What I’m going to say

MADISON, WI – Based upon an extensive independent investigation into the actions of Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus after the Spring Election, the Government Accountability Board found probable cause to believe that she violated the state law requiring county clerks to post all returns on Election Night, but concluded that the violation was not willful and therefore did not constitute criminal misconduct.

Santa came in the form of Investigating Attorney Verhoff with the backing of his trusty elf GAB Directory Kevin Kennedy (pictured above ho ho ho)

They confirmed that all of the officials in Waukesha County were good little boys and girls who would never cheat, lie, or do anything naughty with voting software, vote bags, or inspector sheets. HO HO HO

They said it on a more official and lawyerly way of course.

Hear Yea! Hear Yea!

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 described above, it appears highly unlikely to have occurred. 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.

Ah….highly unlikely. Ah…of course.

Because this sort of highly unlikely consortium of conspiratorial collaboration has never been seen else where.

Yet all it takes is a little journey into a Christmas past. to prove that just such a conspiracy is not only likely, but has occurred in the recent past….

The verdict capped the latest phase of a federal investigation that has blown a hole in the power structure that held sway in Manchester and Clay County for years.

Jury convicts all 8 defendants in Clay vote-buying case

By Bill Estep — bestep@herald-leader.com FRANKFORT — Some of the most powerful public officials in Clay County corrupted elections in recent years, buying and stealing votes in pursuit of power and money, a federal jury ruled Thursday. Posted: 12:00am on Mar 26, 2010; Modified: 6:20am on Sep 17, 2011 2011-09-17T10:20:18Z By Bill Estep Chronology Other significant events in the long-running federal investigation in Clay County: Oct. 25, 2005: Jennings B. White, who served two terms as county clerk, admits laundering money for a large-scale drug trafficker. He said he got involved with the man while in office. He is sentenced to 90 months in prison, fined $25,000 and forfeits $650,000 to the government. Feb. 5, 2007: Vernon Hacker, a former Manchester council member and director of the local 911 system, pleads guilty to being involved in drug trafficking. A drug dealer said Hacker tipped him off about police activity. He is sentenced to 120 months in prison. April 27, 2007:D. Kennon White, whose father, Manchester Mayor Daugh White, created a job for him as city manager in 2004, pleads guilty to extorting kickbacks from a contractor and involvement in paving private driveways with taxpayers’ money for political gain. The charges remain sealed for months as he helped federal investigators. He has not been sentenced. Aug. 13, 2007: Daugh White, who served 28 years as Manchester mayor before losing in 2006, pleads guilty to extortion and paving private drives. He is sentenced to 84 months and a $100,000 fine. Aug. 15, 2007:Darnell Hipsher, former Manchester city council member , pleads guilty to taking part in the scheme to pave private drives. He is sentenced to 46 months. Aug. 17, 2007: Todd Roberts, a former assistant police chief in Manchester, pleads guilty to involvement in having a drug dealer burn down a vacant house so the city could buy the property for construction of a new police and 911 building. He is sentenced to 87 months in prison, a $15,000 fine and restitution of $25,000. Nov. 20, 2007: Magistrate Fred Clinton Johnson pleads guilty to buying votes in the May 2002 primary. He is sentenced to 14 months in prison and fined $10,000. March 17, 2008: Charles “Dobber” Weaver, Manchester fire chief, pleads guilty to stealing votes in 2006 when he was a precinct officer. The scam involved duping voters into walking away from new, unfamiliar voting machines before completing their choices, then switching the votes. He has not been sentenced. March 19, 2009: Authorities arrest eight people on vote-fraud charges in the latest phase of the continuing investigation, including longtime Circuit Judge R. Cletus Maricle, school Superintendent Douglas C. Adams and county Clerk Freddy W. Thompson. Magistrate Stanley Bowling is charged later. May 29, 2009: Paul Bishop, a former precinct worker charged in the case, pleads guilty to buying votes. He has not been sentenced. The jury convicted all eight people on trial, including former Circuit Judge R. Cletus Maricle, 66, and former school Superintendent Douglas C. Adams, 58, on a charge that they engaged in organized criminal acts to rig elections. After a seven-week trial, jurors deliberated about nine hours before convicting the defendants on all the charges they faced, which included vote-buying, mail fraud, extortion and money laundering. Read more: Read more They face up to 20 years each on some charges.

It took a federal investigation to uncover the eight year long conspiracy of election fraud in Clay County

Santa Verhoff and his Elf Kennedy are satisfied with unlikely?

This would not stand in Khabarovsk

Jim Mueller has been working for weeks to get charges dismissed for people arrested for holding signs in the public gallery of the Capital.

From Face Book Today

Jim asked me to let people know that all of the citations for which he was representing clients with the initial appearance dates of Nov 4 and Nov 18 have been dismissed. Congratulations!

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
Trying to change the system from within.

Leonard Cohen

Leonard describes the way I feel when I watch or attend legislative committee meetings like the Wisconsin Assembly Committee for Election Reform hearing last Summer in Madison. My hat and a good share of my whole upper torso go off to people who demonstrate the patience and integrity when sitting before assembled body politic.

Gotta Love People like Jim Mueller

!972 McGovern volunteer,
1972 Democratic ticket filler for Clerk of Courts, Winnebago County
1973-Dec 1975 Completed 3 year Law School degree
1974 Campaign worker for Dem. Gary Goyke in his Senate victory
1975-March 1976 Senate Administrative Assistant
1976 Dem. Assembly Candidate in heavily Rep Dist. received 46.7%
1978 Dem. Assembly Candidate, received 49%
1979 Chair for Goyke’s 6th Cong. seat election, 49%
1979-80 Senate Committee Clerk
1980-1996 Raised family and had a career in Employee Benefits at a Trust Company
1996 Elected Town Supervisor
1998 Re-elected Town Supervisor and ran for Gov. on Lib. ticket.
1999-2005 Administrator/Clerk and in 2004 Treas. Tn of Middleton
2006-Feb 11, 2011 Att., Mun. Consultant, Realtor, Mortgage Broker,
Feb 11, 2011 to date Full-time political activist.

So here is Jim “trying to change the system form within” in face of clueless members of the committee elected to State Assembly like Democrat Frederick Kessler
12th Assembly District and Republican Kathleen Bernier 68th Assembly District.

“A man who says what he means, and means what he says?” Kristi (someone)

The quote of support for Walker is from yet another one of the minuscule minority of teachers (mostly female and blond) who appear out of the darkness to tell us how they stand with Walker. This is the second of such messages of misinformation that is part of the 300,000 dollar media buy launched by…who knows? The soon to be recalled sociopathic governor claims that opposition to his agenda is largely from out of state special interests. How many times has he said this? Are we supposed to believe that the money $300,000 to broadcast these ads comes from the people of Wisconsin?

The adds are delivered on a first name basis. I mean, you don’t want to be too transparent. The latest one bears the tag of just “Kristi”

Kristi LaCroix, teaches in a Kenosha choice school and is a big time face book troll. Kenosha choice school site

You can email her to share your reaction to her words at”
klacroix@kusd.edu

A $300,000 video representing a hair thin slice of people involved with education in Wisconsin, begs for satire like “Recall – A GOOD Call.

The first add featured “Karin”
View satire video of Karin in post “A Teacher Speaks Out”.
Karin is identified as a school board member, and by her first name only. (A Google search finds that she is Karin Rajnicek, a member of the conservative Waukesha School Board, who was elected this past April.)

Karin Rajnicek
W220 S3864 Crestview Dr
Waukesha, WI 53189
(262) 574-7677 Email Address: krajnice@waukesha.k12.wi.us

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got out in front of the Democratic and union efforts to recall him, kicking off an ad campaign on what arguably is the biggest stage in the Badger State: during the Monday night football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings.
The ad, titled “Working Together,” is part of the Walker campaign’s buy of $300,000 worth of air time between Monday and Sunday to tackle the recall effort.

You can view the “Working Together” video here.

The Ad says “Karin”

The ad features a woman who is identified as a school board member, and by her first name of Karin. (A Google search finds that she is Karin Rajnicek, a member of the conservative Waukesha School Board, who was elected this past April.)

Karin Rajnicek
W220 S3864 Crestview Dr
Waukesha, WI 53189
(262) 574-7677 Email Address: krajnice@waukesha.k12.wi.us

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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