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More than a month after losing his recall election, Wisconsin Republican State Senator Van Wanggaard has conceded the race. This gives Wisconsin Democrats control of the Senate. Wanggaard had gotten a recount that showed him still losing by more than 800 votes. He then had until the end of today to decide whether to sue over the results. The Wisconsin State Journal runs his statement. A snip:
"The seemingly never-ending delay by Dane County judges preventing implementation of Wisconsin's voter ID law undoubtedly played a role in this recall election. Even if I were to challenge and win in Racine County court, an appeal to that challenge would be heard in the Madison's Court of Appeals. A challenge would also be extremely costly to taxpayers, who have already been forced to waste $20 million on the recall election.
"Despite pleas from around the state to challenge the election, it is not in the best interests of Racine, or Wisconsin, at this time. Now is the time to focus on gaining the state senate back in November, winning Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seat, and electing Governor Romney as President."
Wanggaard has made charges of suspicious activity at the polls throughout the recount process. To the extent that things went awry, much of it had to do with clerks making mistakes in complying with the part of state's new voting law that was in place. The Government Accountability Board says that where clerks failed to get voters to sign a poll book, as the new law requires, their errors shouldn't invalidate voters' votes.
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Wow, they are not even embarrassed to say it out loud. Voter I.D. laws are needed to keep Republicans in office. The judges are against them, the voters are against them, so now they have to get someone in the elections office to say "we found some ballots that got misplaced".
It's catapulting the propaganda all right. Couldn't be that people don't want them in office. Then, the Rmoney fundraisers saying, "the commoners don't get it".
"The seemingly never-ending delay by Dane County judges preventing implementation of Wisconsin's voter ID law undoubtedly played a role in this recall election."
Yeah, it let the people vote, you worthless piece of something one scrapes off their shoe. AGAINST YOU.
My,my nice try. So Wisconsin has a new law they thought would give the right a clear win? Uh excuse me sir/m;am, I see you are a republican-please sign the book so YOUR vote counts (but do it quietly lest the dems catch on)
Pretty much the definition of a sore loser right there.