How's about that election, huh?
I knew that something big was going to happen today politically because I decided today was the day I was going to catch up on all the things I've been ignoring -- changing the oil in my car, making beer, doing my income tax --- you know, having a life. So of course, the Wisconsin soap opera took yet another quirky turn today as Waukesha county developed a vote leak, and votes started pouring out of the county all over Prosser. I found myself sitting at my computer while I reeked of used motor oil, trying to make sense of all of this.
It's tempting to launch into a conspiracy theory, because it's a situation ready made for that ---
- Votes appear that apparently didn't exist on Tuesday. Well, they didn't appear, they just finally got reported.
- The person losing and finding the votes is a Republican county clerk in a Republican county.
- Same clerk is a long-time Republican, and Republican donor -- and her ex-boss in the old days was the candidate who benefits from the found votes.
Statement from Kloppenburg campaign
"Wisconsin voters as well as the Kloppenburg for Justice Campaign deserve a full explanation of how and why these 14,000 votes from an entire City were missed. To that end, we will be filing open records requests for all relevant documentation related to the reporting of election results in Waukesha County, as well as to the discovery and reporting of the errors announced by the County. We are confident that election officials in Waukesha County will fulfill these requests as quickly as possible so that both our campaign and the people of Wisconsin can fully understand what happened and why. Just as Assistant Attorney General Kloppenburg has run to restore confidence in the court, Wisconsin residents also deserve to have full confidence in election results."