Absentee voters' ballots may need to be redone election night, officials say

[hue]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/absentee-voters-ballots-may-need-to-be-redone-election-night-officials-say-q05ajte-150514985.html

Delays in printing ballots for Tuesday's primary recall elections caused by challenges from protest or "fake" candidates means some absentee voters' ballots must be redone on election night in order to be counted, election officials said Monday.

A tight time frame for printing the ballots resulted from the relatively late decision by the state Government Accountability Board to allow the so-called fake candidates' names.

Protest candidates, some of them Republican activists, registered to run as Democrats to ensure primaries for Democrats running in the state Senate recalls. Fake Democrats also filed to run in the governor and lieutenant governor primaries. The board voted to allow them on the ballot April 16, over objections of the state Democratic Party.

Absentee ballots that were supposed to be ready by April 16 thus were delayed several days for printing. That meant that those seeking absentee ballots before they were printed were given facsimiles for voting, said Reid Magney, spokesman for the state Government Accountability Board. The facsimile absentee ballots must be reconstructed on election night by poll workers, who transfer the votes to a ballot that can be fed into voting machines and be counted.

[midnight]

1. A tight time frame indeed... Primary day is a little over 3 hours away and well...

Kathy" Waukeshame" Nickolaus Will Not Seek Re-Election But Will Still Oversee Recalls?



Tabulators That Announced Wrong 'Winners' to be Used Again in Recalls

While the new processes for some of Waukesha's municipalities to report unverified, computer-generated Election Night results directly to the state G.A.B., before sending them to Nickolaus' Waukesha County Headquarters (no matter who is actually in charge that night there) may speed things up for the media to report those unverified results, it has little to do with their accuracy, or the ability of citizens to oversee them.http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9281

[Scuba]

2. Republicans are doing everything in their power to destroy our elections.

[Blue Owl]

3. Sounds like a task Kathy Fucking Nickolaus could tabulate on her personal fucking laptop

Prosser's ex-employee won't screw up the all-important Waukesha results this time, will she?