In 2000, Al Gore's gambit in Florida was to put the vote in heavily Democratic counties in Florida in order to pick up enough votes to go over the top. Voting technology in Florida was such that it was reasonable to hope that there would be enough spoiled ballots that could be called Democratic to make up what was a very small margin.
That strategy would have no chance of success in the Supreme Court recount. Improved voting technology makes the count far more accurate. To win here, you have to throw out votes and, if you are Joanne Kloppenburg and want to throw out votes, you go to somewhere in which the votes were for your opponent, i.e., Waukesha County.
But she's got another problem. The margin is so large that you can't win through ballot by ballot examination. You need to throw out bags of ballots. Lots of bags. So you look for a flaw - any flaw - that will take the election from the voters and put it in the courts.
The latest seems to be the claim that some ballot bags weren't completely closed such that someone could have taken some out (or put some in) after the fact. But, if the ballots in the bag, correspond to the count and results on election night, it will be pretty clear that no one did.
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What difference should any of this make as long as the Court rules only on the law?
"But, if the ballots in the bag, correspond to the count and results on election night, it will be pretty clear that no one did."
This is a logical observation. There was a time in this process when I thought logic would prevail. I still lean in that direction, but....
Oh, those Democrats and their dastardly, decidedly unvanilla gambits. Speak troof to power, brother.
Might Kloppy's strategy be described as Colemanesque?
This has nothing to do with logic or winning. It has everything to do with stalling the process and causing as much chaos as possible to prevent the elected representatives of the people from doing what we elected them to do. The Democrats are playing rope a dope.
"This...has everything to do with stalling the process and causing as much chaos as possible to prevent the elected representatives of the people from doing what we elected them to do."
That captures it.
That captures it
In a nutshell.
Judge Mawdsley runs a tight, ethical ship and the results will be beyond reproach, to JoKlop's chagrin.
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Election night #'s posted on Brookfield Patch and Clerk for the City of Brookfield's website:
Prosser: 10,859
Kloppenburg: 3,456
Recount #'s
Prosser: 10,862
Kloppenburg: 3,457
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