Tammy Baldwin: Letter to Eric Holder

UPDATE, April 14, 2011: Rick Ungar, Forbes, gets "facts" wrong.
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Tammy Baldwin contacted U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, calling for a federal investigation into Wisconsin's Supreme Court election and the votes in Waukesha County.

Here's the full text of Baldwin's letter, from WKOW:

April 8, 2011

The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.

Attorney General of the United States

U.S. Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C. 20530-0001


Dear Attorney General Holder:

For our democracy to endure, we, the people, must have faith in its laws and system of justice, including faith that our elections for public office are fair and free from any manipulation or tampering. Following this week's election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, numerous constituents have contacted me expressing serious doubt that this election was a free and fair one. They fear, as I do, that political interests are manipulating the results.

The following information was reported by the Associated Press with additional reporting by the Wisconsin State Journal staff, on Friday, April 8:

---On Wednesday morning, April 6, with 100% of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press, JoAnne Kloppenburg appeared to beat incumbent David Prosser for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court by a slim (204 vote) margin out of 1.5 million votes cast.

---Late Thursday afternoon, April 7, the Waukesha County Clerk, Kathy Nickolaus, announced at a press conference that she "failed to save on her computer and then report 14,315 votes in the city of Brookfield, omitting them entirely in an unofficial total she released after Tuesday's election." Nickolaus blamed this on "human error."

---These new votes would give Prosser a roughly 7,500 vote lead in the race – almost exactly the number needed to deny an automatic, government-funded recount.

---Nickolaus said she discovered the error on Wednesday, April 6. She said she entered the numbers into the system and failed to hit "save." She further explained that when she came in to upload the information for the statewide canvass, she noticed all of the fields and columns for the City of Brookfield results were blank.

---The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that last year, Waukesha County officials raised objections to Nickolaus' practice of storing election data on computers in her office rather than on the county's computer network. Nickolaus said this practice was aimed at keeping the data more secure. However, this practice prevented the county's information technology specialists from verifying the system was fail-safe, the county's director of administration said at the time. Auditors later recommended that Nickolaus improve security and backup procedures.

---The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel also reported that Nickolaus, who worked for seven years as a data analyst and computer specialist for the Wisconsin Assembly Republican Caucus, headed up an effort to develop a computer program that averaged the performance of Republicans in statewide races by ward. During some of that time, David Prosser served as Assembly Speaker, meaning he was essentially Nickolaus' boss.

---In 2001, Nickolaus was granted immunity to testify about her role as a computer analyst for the Wisconsin Assembly Republican Caucus, then under investigation for using state resources to secretly run campaigns.
I share the concerns of my constituents that these reports raise serious doubts as to the integrity of the electoral process in Waukesha County and, by extension, our entire state.

To ensure that the April 5th election for Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice is free, fair, and transparent, and to uphold faith in our democracy for ourselves and future generations, I ask for your immediate assistance in investigating these election inconsistencies in Wisconsin.

Specifically, I urge you to immediately assign the Justice Department Public Integrity Section, which oversees the federal prosecution of election crimes, to investigate the questionable handling of vote records in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.

We, the people, must be assured that our votes are fairly counted and reported and our democracy remains intact and untainted.

Sincerely,

Tammy Baldwin

Member of Congress

Baldwin sends a letter to Holder. She's doing what her constituents want her to do. Whatever.

However, she does look goofy calling for a federal investigation.

This is not a national election. It's our election. Wisconsin officials can handle the matter. The federal government doesn't need to intervene or be involved in any way, certainly not at this point.

Justice David Prosser is being completely cooperative.

Of course, Team Kloppenburg - the Leftists, the unions, the Dems - don't want to acknowledge that reality.

Prosser didn't run out on Thursday and call a press conference to declare victory when he took a relatively enormous lead. He didn't pull the shameful stunt that Kloppenburg did, doing a victory lap, when she led by a measly 204 votes in the UNOFFICIAL vote tally.

Here's video of the allegedly apolitical Kloppenburg's sleazy, politically-charged performance:



It was utterly ridiculous for Kloppenburg to declare victory, an absolute disgrace.

Prosser isn't playing politics like Kloppenburg so foolishly did. Moreover, he's not standing in the way of election officials.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Justice David Prosser's campaign said Saturday that it was open to a recount of votes in Waukesha County as the state Supreme Court race remained without a declared winner.

"If you need to do a recount in Waukesha (County) and Waukesha (County) alone to satisfy heightened interest, that's fine," said Prosser campaign manager Brian Nemoir. "We believe it will only affirm the margin of victory we now enjoy."

A federal investigation isn't warranted in this case.

The Prosser campaign said Saturday a federal investigation was unnecessary.

"We don't believe there is need for that," said Brian Neimor, the campaign manager for Prosser. "It’s certainly well within their rights to ask for that. In the end, now that the canvassing results have been reported to the Government Accountability Board, it will be evident that the mistake that was made was a reporting error to the media. That hardly seems like a punishable crime."

Neimor said the campaign was open to a recount of the ballots in Waukesha County

...Kloppenburg's campaign manager Melissa Mulliken said, "from our point of view the process here is ongoing."

Obviously, the Prosser campaign considers the process to be ongoing as well. If not, Prosser would have trotted out in front of the cameras and declared victory, Kloppenburg-style.

I think it's completely legitimate to investigate exactly what happened on election night. That makes sense. No problem.

What's unfortunate is how Kloppenburg and her supporters are reacting, suggesting votes were "found" and using other misleading terms to create suspicion. The Leftist media are doing their part, as "willing partners" in the Democrat-Union-Media Complex, to ramp up concern among voters. Please, just report the facts.

I want Wisconsin elections to be clean. I want to be confident that my vote counts and certain that I'm not being disenfranchised due to fraud.

We know that the results of the November 2, 2004 General Election in the City of Milwaukee were tainted.

Read the report.

What does the 67-page "Report of the Investigation into the November 2, 2004 General Election in Milwaukee" reveal?

---It is proof that voter fraud in Milwaukee is very, very real.

---It is proof that instances of voter fraud in Milwaukee in the November 2, 2004 election were not rare.

---It is proof that Milwaukee citizens are disenfranchised by a state government that permits same day, on-site, no photo ID voter registration.

---It is proof that Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is clueless and/or crooked.

---It is proof that U.S. Representative Gwen Moore is clueless and/or crooked.

---It is proof that Democrat Wisconsin state representatives and senators are clueless and/or crooked.

---It is proof that Governor Jim Doyle, who VETOED a bill that provided for FREE voter photo IDs, is clueless and/or crooked.

---It is proof that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial Board is a shill for Democrats and complicit in the disenfranchisement of Milwaukeeans and Wisconsinites by consistently objecting to proposals to ensure the integrity of Wisconsin’s elections.

Most importantly, the "Report of the Investigation into the November 2, 2004 General Election in Milwaukee" is an invitation.

It is an invitation to all interested in stealing elections.

Give us your felons, your frauds, your fakes, yearning to vote free and frequently.

Some tidbits from the report:

The majority of the issues cited in the report seem to be record keeping issues, which makes the possibility for voter fraud that much greater.

The report indicates 5,300 more ballots were cast than voters recorded, and it cites 1,305 unenterable on-site registration cards in Milwaukee as a possible reason for this voter gap.

Some of the onsite cards didn't have addresses in Milwaukee. Some weren't signed, and some didn't even have names.

...It states that 785 on-site registered voters had cards registered without dates of birth.

1305 people were found with "un-enterable" on-site registration cards due to valid addresses, names, identifications, signatures, voter numbers, illegibilities or lack of home in the City of Milwaukee.

41% of them voted.

55 people on the "un-enterable" list were found to live outside the city of Milwaukee on the date of the election. The investigation says that even if there was no criminal intent on any part of these people to vote incorrectly, it still proved that election inspectors were not following state laws properly in these cases.

One case involved someone from Chicago who registered to vote by simply placing on their registration card an address of a friend with whom they were staying on West Pierce Street in Milwaukee.

Another used a Journal Sentinel newspaper as proof of residency. Others placed suburbs of Wauwatosa and Greenfield on their address listing, but poll inspectors allowed them to vote in Milwaukee.

...Investigators discovered that 220 felons voted in the city of Milwaukee during the 2004 elections.

...The MPD investigation also found five felons who worked as election inspectors. It says that Kimberly Prude, one of the felons indicted by the U.S. Attorney's ofice, actually registered on-site voters. Additionally, the election commission gave the names of 18 convicted felons who worked as deputy registrars.

Shocked?

You shouldn't be.

The report recommends some simple solutions:

1. Eliminate on-site same day voter registration.

2. Require government-issued identification, such as a photo ID or a social security card, to vote.

Bottom line: My vote was stolen on November 2, 2004.

My civil rights are being violated by government officials refusing to take measures to prevent voter fraud in Wisconsin.

Jesse Jackson, will you march to demand my civil rights aren't violated again?

Wisconsin's November 2, 2004 election was dirty. It is highly likely that other elections have been and will be similarly soiled. Meanwhile, Wisconsin's Democrat elected officials are actively blocking attempts to clean up the mess while they whine about the Waukesha matter.

Without question, Wisconsin Democrat elected officials should not be allowed to disenfranchise all Americans by failing to ensure the integrity of election results in Wisconsin in national elections. They shouldn't be allowed to disenfranchise Wisconsinites in statewide and local elections.

The findings of the "Report of the Investigation into the November 2, 2004 General Election in Milwaukee" reveal that Wisconsin is a disgrace to the United States and democracy.

Most disturbing: Wisconsin Democrat elected officials, while maybe a bit embarrassed by the report, didn't do a damn thing to rectify the situation.

So when hypocrite Tammy Baldwin requests that the feds get involved in our Supreme Court election, I'm more than a bit troubled.

Investigate and verify the human error that resulted in the City of Brookfield's numbers not being included in the Tuesday night totals used by the Associated Press to compile UNOFFICIAL election results. I support that.

Also, address the issue of voter fraud.

Examine every same-day on-site registration and verify that the individual was qualified to vote in Wisconsin's election.

Require photo ID to vote in upcoming elections.

We don't need Eric Holder involved here, but we do need to do all we can to rid Wisconsin of voter fraud.

Write a letter about that, Tammy.

In a statewide election, fraud anywhere in Wisconsin is fraud everywhere.