Republicans Prepare for the Worst In Wisconsin Recall

Republicans are ramping up their PR in case they lose in Wisconsin today, and if they do, it won’t be because their guy Scott Walker is under investigation (he is) or because he has the worst history for job losses in the country (he does) or because he lied to the people about his intentions when he ran for office (he did) or because he lied to Congress about his motives for killing collective bargaining (he seems to have done this), but because of the imaginary voter fraud.

Wow. Yeah, it can’t be that the people are really upset with Walker, which is what led to this historic recall in the first place – itself a victory and a statement.

Watch Ed Schultz of MSNBC breaks it down:

http://www.politicususa.com/wisconsin-republicans-prepare-worst-allegations-voter-fraud.html

Exclusive: Wisconsin voter describes robocall telling him not to vote

A Wisconsin voter received a robocall Monday night falsely informing him that if he had already signed a recall petition, he didn't need to vote in Tuesday's recall, he told Lean Forward.

Ed Tuite of Eau Claire said the call came around 8pm Monday night, and that it did not identify the person or group behind the effort.

"That would be as blatant voter suppression as I've heard," Tuite fumed, adding he and his wife weren't taken in, and voted Tuesday morning.

Tuite's account jibes with several other reports of similar calls, some of which have noted that the caller's voice sounded suspiciously like that of Tom Barrett, the Democratic candidate for governor. Tuite said the voice in his call, too, sounded like Barrett's.

http://leanforward.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/05/12072429-exclusive-wisconsin-voter-describes-robocall-telling-him-not-to-vote#.T86VYmoGsCg.twitter

Results Map...HuffPost

Wisconsin recall vote: high turnout raises hopes on both sides of divide

Voters swamped polling stations across the state as both sides claim the surge is good news in vote to recall the governor

Reports of stratospheric turnout in Wisconsin's recall election on Tuesday boosted Democrat hopes of victory in the vote to topple Republican governor Scott Walker.

Voters swamped polling stations across the state in what appeared to be a significantly higher turnout than 2010 when Walker defeated Tom Barrett, the Democratic mayor of Milwaukee now vying to replace him.

Local radio reported that parts of Madison, the state capital and a Democratic bastion, recorded turnout of 119% of previously registered voters by 4pm, with four hours of polling still to go. The extraordinary figure was attributed to a late surge in registrations by union and grassroots activists, taking the voter roll far above its previous levels.

However Republican districts, notably the suburbs of Milwaukee, also turned out heavily, reassuring GOP activists that the surge would benefit Walker and confound conventional wisdom that high participation benefits Democrats.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/06/wisconsin-recall-vote-walker-barrett?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Wisconsin Recall Election Results...NYT

Source: NYT

Voters in Tuesday's recall election are somewhat more opposed to the Tea Party movement than voters in 2010 were, but most nonetheless say, as in 2010, that government "is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals."

Nearly four in 10 voters in preliminary exit polls say they support the Tea Party movement, about as many oppose it and a quarter are neutral. While support for the political movement has held steady from two years ago, opposition is up somewhat from 2010 according to these results.

But voters' antipathy toward increased government involvement in 2010 is echoed in today's results. Two years ago, 41 percent said government "should do more to solve problems" while 56 percent said it was doing too many things better left to others. Voters today felt similarly.

Read more: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/results/live/wisconsin-recall#sha=44b24a4dd

Exit polls show close Wisconsin recall race

(CNN) - Early exit polling of voters in the Wisconsin recall election showed a close contest, with a clear majority of voters having made up their minds well before the final weeks which saw intense campaigning on both sides of the aisle.

The exit polls showed that nearly nine of ten voters made their decisions prior to May, when Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett won the Democratic primary to challenge Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican. Petitions for the recall election circulated after Walker signed a bill last spring which cut collective bargaining rights for many state employees, prompting massive protests at the state house.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/05/exit-polls-shows-close-wisconsin-recall-race/

Unions flex muscle in early Wisconsin recall exit polls

Source: Washington Post

Early exit polling in the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election suggests that union household comprise roughly a third of all voters, a share of the vote that is higher than either of the last two presidential or gubernatorial elections held in the state.

Voters in the recall also tilt positively toward public sector unions in general, but not by a huge margin. Voters split about evenly in their support for changes to state law that limited the collective bargaining ability of government unions, an issue at the heart of recall effort.

Drawing broad conclusions about the shape of the electorate remains difficult due to the fact that these early exit poll reflect only morning and afternoon voters and can (and likely will) shift before polls close at 9 p.m. eastern time.

Still the preliminary numbers hint at answers to some key questions.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/unions-flex-muscle-in-early-wisconsin-recall-exit-polls/2012/06/05/gJQANNxlGV_blog.html

Hand count will slow West Allis vote tally

Source: Jsonline

The failure of a voting machine component at one West Allis ward will likely mean more than 1,000 ballots cast in that ward will have to be hand counted, West Allis City Administrator Paul Zielher said late Tuesday afternoon.

"We're still trying to trouble shoot to see if there's any way we can fix this" part, Zielher said. However, he said local election officials had been struggling for several hours without success.

"If worse comes to worst we'll do a hand count, which will obviously take a long time and delay our final numbers," Zielher said. The problem part is called a PROM pack, an acronym that stands for "programmable read-only memory cartridge."

The count would be done after the polls close at the polling place with the defective machine, the Village at Manor Park at 3023 S. 84th St.. The votes are from West Allis' Ward 19.

Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/157332485.html#!page=0&pageSize=10&sort=newestfirst

Wisconsin election return site....

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