Wisconsin: City of Brookfield Ballot Bags Found “Wide Open” in Waukesha County, Wisconsin | Truthout

Five out of six bags of bal­lots from first batch to be co­un­ted out of the City of Brook­field in Waukes­ha Co­un­ty, Wis­consin today were dis­covered “al­most wide open” dur­ing Day 9 of the statewide Sup­reme Court elec­tion “re­count.” The bags were open and un­sealed, ac­cord­ing to both photog­raphic evi­d­ence and an eye-witnesses ac­count from the co­unt­ing room.

“When the bal­lot bags were taken out and placed upon the co­unt­ing table, we were lit­eral­ly stun­ned,” one of the citiz­en ob­serv­ers, Mary Mag­nuson, a Klop­penburg volun­te­er, told The BRAD BLOG this morn­ing. “5 out of the 6 bal­lot bags were al­most lit­eral­ly wide open, and bal­lots could be clear­ly seen.”

The bal­lots in those bags were among the 14,000 said to have been cast in the April 5th elec­tion, but left off of Waukes­ha Co­un­ty’s tally as re­por­ted to the media on Elec­tion Night.

Ear­li­er this week we of­fered a de­tailed re­port on the status of the statewide “re­count,” highlight­ing a host of dis­turb­ing and out­right viola­tions of the chain of cus­tody of bal­lots, in­clud­ing un­num­bered and re­num­bered bal­lots bags (many of them from Waukes­ha Co­un­ty); bal­lots dis­covered un­secured and/or left out of the origin­al count all togeth­er; and ex­ceeding­ly slop­py record-keeping and re­port­ing of “re­count” re­sults by the state’s chief elec­tion agen­cy, the Wis­consin Govern­ment Ac­coun­tabil­ity Board (GAB). In sum, we de­scribed the state of the “re­count” of the con­tes­ted elec­tion bet­ween Re­pub­lican in­cum­bent Just­ice David Pro­ss­er and his in­depen­dent chal­leng­er Asst. AG JoAn­ne Klop­penburg, as “a mess.”

Today, after the newest re­vela­tions from the Waukes­ha Co­un­ty co­unt­ing room, it got a lot mes­si­er.

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