Wisconsin Ballots are now totaled, Prosser wins by 7,316

The election for State Supreme Court in Wisconsin is extremely important. By putting a conservative back into the high courts, the Wisconsin residence can be assured that the laws will be adhered to the letter; unlike, liberals legislating from the bench. While the Associated Press deemed Liberal justice Kloppenburg as the winner by 204 votes, a new twist using the Democrat playbook made GOP candidate David Prosser as the winner. In a honest mistake, not all of the ballots was counted leaving a conservative county to propel Prosser from a 204 vote deficit to a 7000 vote lead. This is called good Karma!

(Milwaukee-Wisconsin JS) State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser emerged as the winner Friday over challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg in a heated election that drew national attention because of the fight over collective bargaining and a ballot reporting error in Waukesha County.

A canvass of vote totals from the state's 72 counties finalized Friday afternoon shows Prosser beating Kloppenburg, an assistant attorney general, by 7,316 votes. Initial results in the election had showed Kloppenburg leading the race. The final canvass of the April 5 vote was completed 10 days after the election, the maximum allowed by state law.

The margin - 0.488% - is within the 0.5% limit that would allow Kloppenburg to request a statewide recount at taxpayers' expense.

The deadline for calling for a recount is 5 p.m. Wednesday. Although counties have certified their results, by law the Government Accountability Board can't certify the statewide results and declare an official winner until after that recount deadline passes or after completion of a recount, the state agency noted.

The Kloppenburg campaign has not decided whether to seek a recount, and it has not conceded the race, either.

Prosser spokesman Brian Nemoir declared victory for the incumbent, issuing a statement that said, "Today, the will of the electorate is clear with the last canvass now completed and Justice David Prosser re-elected to another 10-year term to the Supreme Court.

State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser emerged as the winner Friday over challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg in a heated election that drew national attention because of the fight over collective bargaining and a ballot reporting error in Waukesha County.

A canvass of vote totals from the state's 72 counties finalized Friday afternoon shows Prosser beating Kloppenburg, an assistant attorney general, by 7,316 votes. Initial results in the election had showed Kloppenburg leading the race. The final canvass of the April 5 vote was completed 10 days after the election, the maximum allowed by state law.

The margin - 0.488% - is within the 0.5% limit that would allow Kloppenburg to request a statewide recount at taxpayers' expense.

The deadline for calling for a recount is 5 p.m. Wednesday. Although counties have certified their results, by law the Government Accountability Board can't certify the statewide results and declare an official winner until after that recount deadline passes or after completion of a recount, the state agency noted.

The Kloppenburg campaign has not decided whether to seek a recount, and it has not conceded the race, either.

Prosser spokesman Brian Nemoir declared victory for the incumbent, issuing a statement that said, "Today, the will of the electorate is clear with the last canvass now completed and Justice David Prosser re-elected to another 10-year term to the Supreme Court.

Legal challenges to the new collective bargaining law are expected to reach the high court. The court has split 4-3 on major issues in recent years, with Prosser voting in the majority with other conservatives. Prosser was appointed to the Supreme Court by Gov. Tommy G. Thompson in 1998 and was elected to a 10-year term in 2001.

Wisconsin GOP Give Democrats Taste of their own Medicine with Election

Democrats are upset that the Associated Press declared Democrat Kloppenburg the winner for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and finding out later the Associated Press had to rescind the announcement. Ironically, Democrats are crying foul and blaming Republicans in stealing the election. There was an error, but there is a chance that the GOP incumbent David Prosser may win the election after all. This is karma for the GOP. Democrats stole the senatorial election for Al Franklin in Minnesota. Now, we can all it even.

Brief Excerpt from Rush Limbaugh Website

RUSH: In Wisconsin, the news media and the rest of the Democratic Party are all up in arms over the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. It turns out the initial numbers, which were reported by AP, as a courtesy, were not correct. Did you hear about this, Snerdley? It turns out that the Republican Justice David Prosser is actually more than 7800 votes ahead, which, of course, has infuriated the media. They thought they had this thing safely stolen, and then this clerk in Waukesha County forgot to count 14,000 votes. I read this and I said, "It's about time we got in this game." Normally it's the Democrats that are uncovering votes that they missed. And look at how the Democrats in the media are running around acting like stuck pigs. And they want an investigation of this woman. The problem is that this Republican clerk had a Democrat take a look everything she was doing all along the line and the Democrat said, "I'm sorry, but everything's legal here. Everything's aboveboard." That woman's chances for advancement in the Democrat Party are now kaput, (raspberry), bye-bye. But she said everything the Republican clerk did was legal.

There are some people upset that this incompetence on the part of the Republican clerk doesn't actually help, that it creates some of the controversy. I understand that. We could deal with that perhaps later in the program. But still, when I saw this, I have to tell you, all right! Just yesterday I gave a big monologue in how we're gonna have to learn to play the game the way they do, and, voila! Voila, we find 14,000 votes -- and ours are legitimate. So Justice Prosser way ahead by more than 7800 votes, the media going after this poor county clerk who didn't include one city's counts in what was sent to the AP. Now, never mind that there is no law saying that the AP should be told about the preliminary vote counts at all. They just do this as a favor to AP. Never mind that the AP should have noticed that the city's numbers were far too low. There was something about this that should have raised a red flag. But the bottom line here is the AP, the Democrats are furious that their candidate, Kloppenburg -- you know, I normally don't comment on people's names, but Kloppenburg, doesn't it sound like something you'd step in? Well, she did. She did step in it with a big victory speech out there and -- (interruption) oh, yeah. I mean they even got mock Harry Truman headlines, graphics on the newspapers.

Anyway, AP, Democrats furious that their candidate, Kloppenburg, they declared her the winner when she was a whopping 204 votes ahead, by the way, an insurmountable lead, of course, when you're the Democrat and you have a 204-vote lead. It's gonna be hard to find enough votes to make up the difference, but they're going to try. They're gonna bring in the Al Franken lawyer. They're gonna bring in the same lawyer that found the votes for Christine Gregoire in Washington and the same lawyer that found the votes for Franken in Minnesota. They're gonna bring in the same guy into Wisconsin here. So naturally the media is now doing everything they can to discredit the evil Republican county clerk, even though Democrat officials, as I said, have been looking over her shoulder every step of the way so that everything's been done completely on the up and up, but a scapegoat must nevertheless be found.