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Recount Update for Wisconsin, Michigan and Florida

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Wisconsin recount observer says Waukesha County is double-counting Donald Trump votes
By Bill Palmer | December 4, 2016 | 0


As the statewide Wisconsin recount continues to get underway, the recount observers representing various presidential candidates have been sharing their first hand experiences online. Observers in some counties have found no issues at all, while others have reported concerns and suspicious incidents. But one recount observer Waukesha County is now making the flat out accusation that county officials are purposely double counting Donald Trump's votes and pulling other shenanigans during the recount.

The accusation comes from recount observer John West, who has been documenting his experiences on his own publicly visible Facebook page. On Sunday evening he flatly declared that "I'm calling out fraud." West went on to make the following specific accusations: "Waukesha County Wisconsin is obstructing the recount blatantly. Making up rules to shut out allowed observers. Double counting Republican ballots. Taking machines out and returning machines that break down after midnight hoping to avoid any observers."

In the comments section of his own post, linked above, he went on to elaborate that "They aren't invalidating clear duplicate and unsigned ballots that were mailed in," thus explaining how the double-counting is taking place.

Update: West's post has since been removed from Facebook (or possibly turned into a private post) for unknown reasons. However, we took a screen capture of it before it disappeared:

We're reaching out to Mr. West to ascertain whether he took the post down voluntarily, or if he's made the post private, or if something else transpired. His Facebook page is still visible but without the post in question.

These are serious accusations of improper behavior, which if proven true would represent criminal fraud. We're reaching out to Mr. West to determine what evidence he has in terms of documenting the behavior in question. But the mere fact that a Wisconsin observer is making these accusations is newsworthy in and of itself, as he claims to have witnessed all of the above with his own eyes. This is particularly notable in that Waukesha is one of just twelve Wisconsin counties (out of seventy-two) which have are refusing to a hand recount, instead relying on a machine recount.

The official Waukesha County vote totals, according to Politico's tally, have Donald Trump ahead by 66,320 votes. These accusations by the recount observer call into question whether Trump legitimately received as many votes in Waukesha as the official numbers claim. Considering that Trump only leads in Wisconsin by around 20,000 votes statewide, any significant shift in Waukesha's totals could give the state to Hillary Clinton.

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http://www.palmerreport.com/news/wisconsin-recount-observers-uncover-discrepancies-milwaukee-absentee-ballots/362/

Wisconsin recount: observers uncover discrepancies with Milwaukee absentee ballots
By Bill Palmer | December 3, 2016 | 1

Three full days into the Wisconsin statewide recount of the 2016 presidential election race, reports continue to pour in from the designated election observers who have been watching over the shoulders of the officials doing the recounts. There has been significant controversy over the fact that Milwaukee County, the largest in the state, has refused to do a hand recount and is instead merely doing a machine recount. And observers have already uncovered discrepancies with the Milwaukee ballots.

The designated recount observers representing the Jill Stein campaign have been logging their findings on her official campaign website. In various counties it's resulted in evidence that the confusingly worded ballot caused voters to fill it out wrong in a manner which the vote counting machines initially missed. Observers have also flagged five vote counting machines whose security seals have been tampered with. But the report coming from a Milwaukee observer may be the most eyebrow raising.

The designated Jill Stein observer in Milwaukee County observer posted the following on Friday: "Discrepancies noted in absentee ballots which were resolved promptly by Milwaukee County Election Commission. Plan on return to same location on Monday morning at 8:30 am." The good news, in terms of election integrity, is that these votes now have a chance to be correctly counted. The bad news in that regard is that his was only caught because the election observer was there monitoring -- and far more such ballots may be being overlooked by officials,

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