This is a game we saw the Democrats play after George W. Bush was elected President. It's called make the person who won the election's life so miserable that they may never run for anything again. The delays in allowing W to set up his cabinet and staff and the stalling on judicial nominations were a disgrace, but the Democrats got away with it so they had no incentive to change their behavior.
Hot Air posted an article on Monday (with updates) about the Wisconsin election in which conservative Justice David Prosser has defeated liberal challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg. The problem in the election results has to do with the fact that Kloppenburg was initially declared the winner until the final vote tally was rechecked and it was noted that the votes from heavily Republican Waukesha county had not been included in the totals.
Hot Air reports:
"Read Mark Blumenthal's analysis at HuffPo(!) of how the new Waukesha numbers are more believable than the ones from election night and how the sort of recording error made by county clerk Kathy Nickolaus really isn't all that unusual. His is the third statistical model to lend credence to the updated vote totals since they were announced. And if that's not convincing enough, forget the statisticians and simply note that a paper in Brookfield -- where the "missing" votes were "found" -- actually published the correct vote total on election night. The votes were there all along, as tallied and reported by the City of Brookfield. The "error" came when Nickolaus forgot to include the updated numbers from the city in relaying her vote totals to the AP."
The article also points out that county clerk Kathy Nickolaus also found it unusual that they were called in to canvass on Wednesday morning instead of the usual Thursday procedure. Ms. Nickolaus made an honest mistake in not saving the data from Waukesha county and including it in the number given to AP. However, the total votes tallied and reported on election night were correct.
There is no fraud here, but I suspect that we will be hearing about these events for a while.
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