Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas said that everyone makes mistakes after it was realized Waukesha County did not count the city of Brookfield in the election day reports to the media, which shifts votes in the statewide Supreme Court race.
JoAnne Kloppenburg, who was viewed in the election as a liberal, had the slight edge over incumbent David Prosser, a conservative. The additional votes that were counted in the Waukesha County Board of Canvassers place Prosser ahead by 7,500 votes.
“It is a good process,” Vrakas said about the Board of Canvassers. “Our forefathers put that in, and I think today we are finding out exactly the wisdom in that.”
Vrakas said there are discrepancies being reported statewide in the election. That’s why the state has the canvassing process, he said.
“Some are going to hurt each candidate,” said Vrakas about the discrepancies. “It is an unfortunate situation, but the most important thing is that every vote was counted and was verified and in the hands of the Government Accountability Board."
A tearful Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus told members of the media on Thursday the error was discovered on Wednesday as they began the canvassing. Apologizing, she said the discrepancy was due to a failure to save the final document on election night.
Nickolaus gave a “great explanation,” Vrakas said, as she admitted to the problem.
“She owned it,” Vrakas said. “She said that it was something that she regretted but, at the same time, the vote that we forwarded now is the true vote.”
As for the City of Brookfield residents who did not have their votes reflected in the reports given to the media Tuesday night?
“You should feel good that your vote is in the system now,” Vrakas said.
Wait, didn't you hear? Kloppy lost
If you think voter fraud does not go on research history . We should count all the votes if the votes are legit! With all of our advanced technology how come we can't come up with a system that is better ?? How many other clerks forgot to push the save button in previous elections? No wonder people are so disgusted. I think the Republicans want a system that is obviously easy to tamper with just in case the vote doesn't go thier way..
1. What was done was that the vote totals from Brookfield were NOT REPORTED to the AP. The unoffical source of Wisconsin election results. Suprised the heck out of me when I found out that there isn't a state agency for this, but there isn't. 2. The next thing that was done was this preliminary information was put into the GAB database who is the official vote counter. Apparently without the Brookfield numbers in the totals. 3. The canvansing process was started per normal election proceedings. Egads... errors were found. 12 additional votes for Prosser in Milwaukee, 200 votes in New Berlin, and 62 in Shawno and 466 in Winnebago for Kloppenburg.... On and on... no new votes, not stuffed ballot boxes... All clerical errors in the counting. Now we have a doozie (sp) of a clerical error with Brookfield... nearly 14,000 votes not included in the totals... 10,000+ for Prosser and 3,000+ for Kloppenburg. BIG MISTAKE... Due to human error and maybe some faulty process (again human error). Forgot to press the save button or what ever. Regardless of the cause of the error it WAS an error. It wasn't fraud, it wasn't timed for a specific result, it wasn't until the cross-checking process which is part of ALL elections that it was found. Thank God we have these cross-checks to isure fair, free elections.
The error was found, was admitted, and there was an apology. As someone mentioned, there is a trail to follow. It is refreshing to find so many PERFECT people posting on these blogs.