Statement from Ramona Kitzinger (dem member of Waukesha canvass)

[eyesroll]

(Waukesha County Democratic Party)On Tuesday night, I received a voice message from someone in the office of Clerk Kathy Nickolaus informing me of a Wednesday canvass meeting, which I returned the next morning and said I would be able to report into the canvass by noon � which I did. Normally the canvass would begin at 9am on Thursday, as has been the general practice for many years. No one explained why they were beginning the canvass on Wednesday, just to please report immediately.

Before this telephone call, I had not been contacted as the designated Democratic observer, and I saw no public notice of the abnormal canvass time. The phone call simply instructed me to report by noon to begin the canvass, which I did. The canvass then proceeded as normal, with no glaring irregularities or mention of a possible 15,000 vote error in Brookfield City.

On Thursday, I then showed up as per normal procedure at 9am and the canvass again went normally and concluded sometime between 4pm and 5pm. During the course of the day, the issue of minor vote corrections in New Berlin and Lisbon came up, but again nothing of a historic nature or reflecting glaring irregularities. In fact, the matter of vote totals in Brookfield City came up specifically during the course of Thursday�s canvass. In retrospect, it seems both shocking and somewhat appalling there was no mention of discovery of this 15,000 vote �human error� that ultimately had the potential to tip the balance of an entire statewide election. How is this possible?

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[ewagner]

1. I've witnessed

a few board of canvasser's meetings and I've suspected for some time that the boards rely only on the clerks and really have no idea how the numbers came to be....there is an assumption of competence on the part of the staff and that the numbers being presented come from accurate sources and have been professionally verified.

Here...

Here we see that they were not.


I've been convinced that the numbers were "legit" since I heard that Brookfield reported the exact same numbers on Tuesday night...but this clerk's secrecy and the manner in which the error was (or more accurately was not ) disclosed makes me suspicious even though I KNOW I shouldn't be....something is amiss here....

[PeaceNikki]

2. This is insane!!

What now?!

[midnight]

3. This is what I suspected. It is nice to know Ramona is able to get

the perspective on this situation and realize her computer knowledge, as well as most of us, would never be able to match Kathy's clever computer programmer skills... And that she is able to share with the voters how she was kept from the excessive votes, and told she would not be speaking... This story jibes with me...