Waupaca County (Wisco) Discovers 2 Canvass Errors - Favor Kloppenburg

[eowyn_of_rohan]

A Bit of Good News...

From the GAB site http://gab.wi.gov/node/1835
Submitted by admin on May 2, 2011 - 2:16pm

Waupaca County officials have discovered two errors in the original canvass of the Supreme Court election. Here is Waupaca County Clerk Mary Robbins' explanation to G.A.B. staff:

Town of Larrabee – discrepancy in count. I have attached our recount notes in regards to the Town of Larrabee. They use both the Edge machine and the Optech Eagle. The Town of Larrabee original tally sheet from the April 5, 2011 election showed a 0 vote count on the Eagle on their tally sheet. (minutes attached) Board of Canvass did not think they could open the ballot bag to count at their April 7th Board of Canvass, we should have done that. The clerk was called (Arlene Kratzke) and she said she just forgot to transfer the numbers onto the sheet. The Board of Canvass should have caught this mistake the tape was attached and I apologize, we must have just read the sheet and didn’t check the tapes, we normally always check the tapes. The call in sheet, also, only shows 70 for Kloppenburg, the tape shows 167, the actual hand count shows 168 for Kloppenburg.


Town of Royalton - discrepancy in count, Kloppenburg original count was 80, Recount final count was 95 votes for Kloppenburg. They use the Edge machine and paper ballots: Original Tally was 80 votes, the Edge machine tape showed 40 ballots, that total matched the tape, they counted the Edge tape 3 times. The hand counted paper ballots were 40 on the original tally sheet (I think they just put 40 in both columns by mistake) Tabulators, counted 3 times for Kloppenburg. The 15 ballots were paper ballots, the recount team counted these ballots 3 times. Clerk had no explanation other than the election officials forgot to count a stack of ballots cast for Kloppenburg when they reported and put all paper ballots into the bag or the person writing the tallies just copied the 40 twice. Since these were paper ballots a recount is the only way these would have been found.

The results for the Town of Larrabee and the Town of Royalton will be included in the spreadsheet for the 6 p.m. update.

[iwishiwas]

1. Great. Thanks for the post.

[napi21]

2. That's good news, but she needs a lot more. I didn't even realize a recount

had begun? I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Kloppenburg wins, and I don't care if it's only by TWO VOTES!

[lonestarnot]

3. Excellent! Now keep count'n!

[eowyn_of_rohan]

6. OK!

you are a slavedriver ;)

[pacalo]

4. Thanks for keeping us up to date.

[Scuba]

5. Thanks for posting!!! n/t

[Ellipsis]

7. ...coolness

[gkhouston]

8. They didn't check the tape during the canvass? So that's almost 100 more votes

for Kloppenberg in one town? What about Prosser? Were his votes counted correctly in Larrabee and Royalton?

[eowyn_of_rohan]

9. Good Question re the prosser votes

Hope they got NONE. BTW, by my count, Kloppenburg gained 113 votes due to this snafu.

[gkhouston]

10. That's what I was thinking, as well. I'm wondering how many other "snafus"

are out there.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

11. I think about that, and all the ways it could be done, constantly -nt

[Bjorn Against]

13. If he got none that makes it smell much more fishy

It doesn't seem likely that a fairly large batch of ballots that went uncounted did not contain a single Prosser vote, when an "error" only effects one candidate it should raise all kinds of red flags.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

14. true - the entire thing is fishy. This seemed to be a stack

of Kloppenburg ballots - for some reason. Otherwise you'd think they'd report totals for both.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

15. Prosser gained a total of 6 votes in these 2 municipalities

David Prosser gained a single vote in the Larrabee recount, and he lost 7 in the Royalton recount.

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/05/02/wisconsin-supreme-court-recount-day-6/

[eowyn_of_rohan]

12. Bump for those who haven't see it