AND the Official Count From the Milwaukee County Recount!

Milwaukee County presidential recount wraps up with Biden adding to his margin over Trump: Milwaukee County’s recount of the presidential election vote tally came to an end Friday, with Democratic President-elect Joe Biden adding 132 votes to his margin of victory over President Donald Trump in Milwaukee County. In all,…

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Early Returns From The Milwaukee Recount

Some reporters don’t do math apparently. Here is Pat Poblete’s correction: Both of the individuals are political reporters.

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Milwaukee County Recount And Milwaukee Ward 315 Uncounted Ballots!

During the Milwaukee County recount, the City of Milwaukee discovered 386 uncounted absentee ballots from Ward 315. The ballots have been processed as part of the recount and obviously will have little effect if any on the outcome. The final numbers for Ward 315 will be interesting to see since…

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Despite All Of The Real Nonsense Around The “Wisconsin Recount”, This Is What They Got Upset About?

Everyday poll workers, poll watchers, and others supervising the Milwaukee County recount at the Wisconsin Center are given wrist bands when they pass through their health and security screening. And everyday they get a different wrist band…and to any of us who have attended any type of event with wrist…

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Word From The Trenches At The Milwaukee County WI Recount.

This is from a social media page from a volunteer at the recount site in Milwaukee County. It was posted around noon today. Meanwhile, in Wisconsin… A few minutes after the recount started today a representative of the trump campaign objected and presented a list of demands to the commission….

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And The Lucky Recount Winners Are? Milwaukee And Dane Counties!

This makes little to no sense…yes the biggest number of Biden votes came from Milwaukee and Dane counties…but yes…they are Democratic strong holds and always go Democratic. The Trump campaign needs to flip 11,000 votes to possibly negate Biden’s lead of nearly 21,000 votes. I don’t think that’s likely to…

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Two Protests Ten Years Apart

I’m always surprised at the kind of interesting articles pop up in The London Review of Books. In this case, it’s a short piece by Keith Gessen (subscription required), a writer, originally from Russia, who makes an interesting observation about Occupy Wall Street and a little kerfluffle down in Florida back…

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Late Breaking News

Wisconsin GAB certifies Justice Prosser victory after statewide recount in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Just wanted to get this on the record.

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Recounts vs. Voter ID: Why Is Democracy So Damn Expensive?

The vote recount for the Supreme Court race between incumbent Justice Prosser and Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg is nearly over. The recount has been completed in 71 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties. Only Waukesha County is still methodically performing their hand count and has only managed to recount about one…

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Disenfranchising Nuns for ****** sake!

Thanks to my friend and capital insider Ashley Schultz for bringing this event from the Supreme Court recount to my attention yesterday afternoon via Facebook. Here is her original posting from yesterday which is in the form of an email reposted by Charles Sykes. I probably would have overlooked it…

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