Waukesha County at it again

Hey, did you hear? Waukesha County, Wisconsin, has crooked "elections"! Betcha didn't know that!

There was a series of recall elections for the Wisconsin Senate yesterday. It didn't take very long before I knew exactly what was going to happen, especially after the Wisconsin Supreme Court "election" when Waukesha County - with Kan't Kount Kathy at the helm - sat on votes until the last minute. Last night, when I saw that the Republicans were within one seat of losing the Senate, and that Waukesha County still had almost all its precincts still to report, the rest of the story pretty much wrote itself.

The point here isn't that the Republicans lost 2 seats yesterday despite Waukesha County's fraud. Fact is, the GOP sore losers wouldn't still have so many if they hadn't rigged elections before. On the other hand, the Republicans wouldn't have lost 2 seats yesterday if it wasn't for the ongoing rallies in Madison. What does this prove? It shows the Madison protests need to be expanded. They work. Slowly but surely, they do. The protests shouldn't stop at least until the Republicans lose the state legislature. The Madison rallies have accomplished more than any recent election.

What's improved since the bad old days of 10 or 20 years ago, before the media gatekeepers were challenged by the new generation of political websites and Internet forums? Nowadays, everybody knows the Republicans are committing fraud. The gatekeepers can't monopolize the flow of information like they used to, so the facts come out right quick. As a result, at least 2 Democratic officials in Wisconsin have already accused Waukesha County of vote tampering, and an investigation has reportedly begun. (In Kentucky though, the Democrats would just kiss up to the Republicans if a fraud like this happened.)