Dems ask for reviews of Waukesha County handling of Supreme Court votes

Democrats have asked for reviews of Waukesha County’s handling of votes in this spring’s state Supreme Court race, as well as what the state party says may be a discrepancy in the county’s tally of November 2006 ballots.
The state Dem Party has asked the Government Accountability Board (GAB) to expand its investigation of the Waukesha County clerk’s handling of votes from the Prosser-Kloppenburg race to include the 2006 election.
In a letter to the agency, Democratic chair Mike Tate points out a 17,243-vote difference between the numbers of votes in the 2006 attorney general’s race reported to the state and the number of ballots cast listed on the county’s website.
The difference in the attorney general’s race that year was fewer than 9,000 votes.
Since the discrepancy was pointed out on a blog this week, the clerk’s office has added a post to its website that, “Ballot Cast is the number of ballots that were fed through the election machines at the polling places and the results were collected using a modem in the office. It does NOT include any hand entered results. Number of Votes in a particular contest or race is the number of votes certified after canvassing. The results collected using a modem and any results hand entered in the office on election night."
Meanwhile, nine Dem lawmakers signed a letter to the GOP chairs of the Legislature’s Elections and Judiciary committees asking them to investigate Clerk Kathy Nickolaus’ failure to initially report some 14,000 votes in the Supreme Court race.
The lawmakers called on the chairs to "help restore people’s faith that their votes count and our electoral system is free and fair."
They also requested joint hearings of their committees to investigate the results and conduct of Waukesha County election officials.
– WisPolitics.com