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(CNN)   Found more of that election fraud the GOP are screaming about   (cnn.com) divider line
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    More: Obvious, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Republican Party, Elections, military absentee ballots, top elections, GOP State Rep. Janel Brandtjen, deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission  
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dracos31
2022-11-04 12:21:51 AM  
Accusation, confession...you guys know the drill here.
 
etoof
2022-11-04 12:22:05 AM  
Simple misunderstanding
 
Yakk
2022-11-04 12:23:06 AM  
Isolated incident, overzealous staffer.
 
DarkSoulNoHope
2022-11-04 12:25:13 AM  
Republicans trying to create the fraud they claim exist, act as if it's a problem with "the system" and not their inside woman doing illegal things, and declare themselves the winner because the system is "flawed".
 
mistahtom
2022-11-04 12:26:15 AM  
Yeah but it's Milwaukee which is home to a bunch of liebruls so clearly this was a liebrool plot to overturn Jesus or some other sinister liebrūl agenda
 
olorin604
2022-11-04 12:26:23 AM  
2 years unable to prove fraud, and this is their "well we'll show them" plan?
 
Master Passion Greed
2022-11-04 12:28:16 AM  
This Is My Milwaukee
Youtube yXnPT1qH8qE

Throw her to the godseed fragments.

/no idea why this was the first thing to pop into my head
 
AppleOptionEsc
2022-11-04 12:30:15 AM  

mistahtom: Yeah but it's Milwaukee which is home to a bunch of liebruls so clearly this was a liebrool plot to overturn Jesus or some other sinister liebrūl agenda


Probably why it was done in Milwaukee instead of Waukesha. Makes that laptop for an extra 6K republican votes that shows up at 5 a.m. the next day less conspicuous.
 
Kumana Wanalaia
2022-11-04 12:30:37 AM  
Check his basement for runaway children
 
The Dog Ate My Homework
2022-11-04 12:31:15 AM  
This is exactly like that time I robbed a bank to prove that bank security is too lax. I didn't mean any harm. If anything, you should all be thanking me.
 
Some Junkie Cosmonaut
2022-11-04 12:36:16 AM  

DarkSoulNoHope: Republicans trying to create the fraud they claim exist, act as if it's a problem with "the system" and not their inside woman doing illegal things, and declare themselves the winner because the system is "flawed".


That a cynical and hard-hearted way to look at this situation Dark

/also completely the fark accurate mind you
 
taipei_lad
2022-11-04 12:36:44 AM  
If you still think Republicans aren't going to be cheating their collective asses off in the midterms, seek medical help for your brain damage.
 
replacementcool
2022-11-04 12:38:32 AM  
I know she's a republican because they're the only ones farking dumb enough to go around committing crimes "to prove how easy the crime is to commit" all while getting caught.
 
JudgeSmails
2022-11-04 12:39:18 AM  
anyone attempting to subvert democracy should be shot out of a cannon at the very least.
 
erik-k [OhFark]
2022-11-04 12:43:58 AM  

taipei_lad: If you still think Republicans aren't going to be cheating their collective asses off in the midterms, seek medical help for your brain damage.


The phenomenon of GQP candidates outperforming every bit of available data, but only in districts run by GQPers, has been known for literally two decades now. It's called the Red Shift.

Nobody does anything about it, and the media will of course call it literally anything but GQP malfeasance.

Remember when what was then the biggest exit poll effort ever in 2004 predicted a definite Kerry win? Then things magically began turning for Bush? And then anyone who questioned it was instantly denounced as a kookoo liberal nutbar? And then people started looking, and the only places official tallies and exit polls didn't agree were in GQP run districts? And every last anomaly favored Bush?
 
foo monkey
2022-11-04 12:45:53 AM  
I've taken to reading the comments on FoxNews.com for stories like this.  It's irilluminating. 
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Johnny the Tackling Alzheimers Patient
2022-11-04 12:49:02 AM  

foo monkey: I've taken to reading the comments on FoxNews.com for stories like this.  It's irilluminating. 
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Illuminating, in the way bright strobe lights can induce seizures?
 
dylanthomas
2022-11-04 12:50:24 AM  
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Porous Horace
2022-11-04 12:56:01 AM  
Putin invaded The Ukraine only to show that their security was lax.
 
Fart_Machine
2022-11-04 1:26:59 AM  
"someone was trying to point out how easy it is to get military ballots in Wisconsin."

It was so easy they got busted trying to do it.
 
Bennie Crabtree
2022-11-04 1:47:17 AM  
FTA: The absentee ballots sent to Brandtjen were addressed to individuals who do not appear to exist, according to her statement, which included pictures of the envelopes she received.

I thought the security was on the return envelopes? Who cares if someone got ballots, fake names are screened out when they're submitted. ...right?

.......right?
 
jerryskid [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-11-04 2:13:00 AM  
I have a very simple question for the maga lurkers here. Can you give an example of a a single maga politician that is not a pathological liar, a nazi, a fraud, a racist, a traitor or a rapist/child molester?

I'm serious here. I've actually looked and cannot find a single example of a single maga politician who is honest, moral and not a traitor.

I realize that most magats have blocked me because they are fragile, weak, cowardly and stupid, but there must be one of them that isn't. I know the rooskie shills haven't blocked me because they're supposed to be gathering information.

I'm guessing they won't answer because they know everything I post is absolute, unassailable truth.
 
bmix
2022-11-04 2:28:56 AM  

Master Passion Greed: [YouTube video: This Is My Milwaukee]
Throw her to the godseed fragments.

/no idea why this was the first thing to pop into my head


I hadn't thought about this in years... I followed for a while, during the time the players were meeting the actors from the videos. It was so good, one of the best ARGs I'd seen, especially for the time. But then it all just seemed to go poof. Updates trailed off, posts became less and less frequent, and I finally just moved on.

So, what the heck, I'll ask. Any Farkers know how This Is My Milwaukee ended?

/Cool Dog wants steak
 
mathamagical [OhFark]
2022-11-04 2:34:20 AM  

dracos31: Accusation, confession...you guys know the drill here.


The point was never to "catch" democrats cheating. It was to encourage the republicans to believe that cheating is fair and acceptable when they do it. If a Dem wins they must be cheating, if a Republicans wins by cheating it is only to counter the unprovable cheating the democrats did.
 
Ishkur [OhFark]
2022-11-04 3:00:47 AM  

The Dog Ate My Homework: This is exactly like that time I robbed a bank to prove that bank security is too lax. I didn't mean any harm. If anything, you should all be thanking me.


You scoff but that's actually what a lot of ethical hackers do.

They break into a server, then they email the owners of that server: "Your system is vulnerable to injection attacks and your passwords are stored in plain text on the database. Please update your security."

Often they get arrested for their troubles.
 
ryant123
2022-11-04 4:08:35 AM  
Boy, what an embarrassing mixup!
 
hlehmann
2022-11-04 4:36:20 AM  
All conservatives are subhuman filth, always have been, always will be.

Why do I have to keep repeating this obvious fact?
 
Burn_The_Plows
2022-11-04 4:53:35 AM  

Master Passion Greed: [Youtube-video: This Is My Milwaukee]
Throw her to the godseed fragments.

/no idea why this was the first thing to pop into my head


That must be a record. 10 minutes of talking about Milwaukee and not once mentioning beer, cheese or Dahmer.
 
replacementcool
2022-11-04 4:57:16 AM  

Ishkur: The Dog Ate My Homework: This is exactly like that time I robbed a bank to prove that bank security is too lax. I didn't mean any harm. If anything, you should all be thanking me.

You scoff but that's actually what a lot of ethical hackers do.

They break into a server, then they email the owners of that server: "Your system is vulnerable to injection attacks and your passwords are stored in plain text on the database. Please update your security."

Often they get arrested for their troubles.


key word being ethical
 
Gordon Bennett [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-04 5:00:09 AM  
The Milwaukee County district attorney's office told CNN that it expects criminal charges to be filed against Zapata "in the coming days."

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LZeitgeist
2022-11-04 5:28:41 AM  

JudgeSmails: anyone attempting to subvert democracy should be shot out of a cannon at the very least.


There are eight too many words in that thought.
 
zappaisfrank
2022-11-04 5:47:05 AM  
Ironically, by getting caught trying to commit voter fraud, she proved the system is secure....because she got caught!
 
OldRod [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-04 5:57:41 AM  
Is this the "ballot harvesting" we're always hearing about?
 
Derp Du Jour
2022-11-04 6:19:15 AM  

replacementcool: I know she's a republican because they're the only ones farking dumb enough to go around committing crimes "to prove how easy the crime is to commit" all while getting caught.

Caught vs. Held Accountable


We have been witnessing in real time the vast difference between the two
 
THX 1138
2022-11-04 6:24:27 AM  
Only fired?  She should be criminally charged.
 
Icarus_Rising
2022-11-04 7:27:38 AM  
"See, anyone can request a military ballot! Fraud!!"

Um.....the names on the ballots, according the GOP "totally not in collusion with the election official who did this" lawmaker, don't exist. So even if these ballots had been filled out, and even if they had been mailed in, and even if they'd been opened, they wouldn't have been matched up to a registered voter and would have been tossed. That's exactly the kind of thing that those checks are intended to catch.
 
Icarus_Rising
2022-11-04 7:28:03 AM  

THX 1138: Only fired?  She should be criminally charged.


Likely will be.
 
Icarus_Rising
2022-11-04 7:30:51 AM  

Bennie Crabtree: FTA: The absentee ballots sent to Brandtjen were addressed to individuals who do not appear to exist, according to her statement, which included pictures of the envelopes she received.

I thought the security was on the return envelopes? Who cares if someone got ballots, fake names are screened out when they're submitted. ...right?

.......right?


yes.
 
kmgenesis23
2022-11-04 7:50:18 AM  

DarkSoulNoHope: Republicans trying to create the fraud they claim exist, act as if it's a problem with "the system" and not their inside woman doing illegal things, and declare themselves the winner because the system is "flawed".


You forgot the most important part: they keep getting caught. The system works.
 
helloyesthisisdog
2022-11-04 7:51:47 AM  

replacementcool: I know she's a republican because they're the only ones farking dumb enough to go around committing crimes "to prove how easy the crime is to commit" all while getting caught.


And yet Hillary has killed like 70 people singlehandedly and never been caught
 
clkeagle [BareFark]
2022-11-04 7:53:21 AM  

THX 1138: Only fired?  She should be criminally charged.


So should the lawmaker that was part of it. This is a ridiculously obvious conspiracy.
 
Ken VeryBigLiar
2022-11-04 8:02:05 AM  

AppleOptionEsc: mistahtom: Yeah but it's Milwaukee which is home to a bunch of liebruls so clearly this was a liebrool plot to overturn Jesus or some other sinister liebrūl agenda

Probably why it was done in Milwaukee instead of Waukesha. Makes that laptop for an extra 6K republican votes that shows up at 5 a.m. the next day less conspicuous.


If she does it in Waukesha County not sure they even file charges without it being like pulling teeth. Although she does have a Hispanic name so that might help.
 
Heraclitus
2022-11-04 8:06:36 AM  
Until they start seeing serious penalties for cheating, why wouldnt they? Send them to prison for the rest of their natural lives and this shiat will clear up overnight.
 
JerkStore
2022-11-04 8:28:22 AM  
So her excuse is, "I committed fraud to show you how easy it is to commit fraud in case anyone wanted to do it even though they aren't and I got caught so the system is working?"
 
Petey4335
2022-11-04 9:58:48 AM  

AppleOptionEsc: mistahtom: Yeah but it's Milwaukee which is home to a bunch of liebruls so clearly this was a liebrool plot to overturn Jesus or some other sinister liebrūl agenda

Probably why it was done in Milwaukee instead of Waukesha. Makes that laptop for an extra 6K republican votes that shows up at 5 a.m. the next day less conspicuous.


Let me add a 'fark Cathy Nickolaus' to the thread from a former Waukesha resident where that shiat happened about a mile and a half from my old house.

/10,859 votes for 'Justice Choke-hold' out of 14,315 votes cast from Brookfield.

//waukesha did clean up the process and got rid of her ass afterward, though. Which helped

///the Democratic Party of Waukesha county is/was still a useless pile. Called them before that election to ask if one of the 4 monitors at my polling place was theirs and to note the single touchscreen was being removed/replaced at 8am on election day. They couldn't tell me if they had any there and were 'confused' about what i was trying to tell them. So, i called the greens. Yes, one of the observers was a green, and they took as much information from me as i could give about it stating they would look into it and confirm with the observer.

////now in Dodge. The county party seems to be more active, but has a hard time finding people to run for down ballot positions, meaning anything from state rep on down is unopposed R's. I won't because because there are some ghosts in our family closet, while not illegal or immoral for those still living here, is not worth putting into a spotlight because it involves my kids who don't deserve to be publicly dragged into another's stupidity. And it wouldn't put it past the R's to amplify out of proportion someone else's life choices.
 
Ken VeryBigLiar
2022-11-04 10:23:31 AM  

Petey4335: The county party seems to be more active, but has a hard time finding people to run for down ballot positions, meaning anything from state rep on down is unopposed R's. I won't because because there are some ghosts in our family closet, while not illegal or immoral for those still living here, is not worth putting into a spotlight because it involves my kids who don't deserve to be publicly dragged into another's stupidity. And it wouldn't put it past the R's to amplify out of proportion someone else's life choices.


That's the tough part for rural Democrats and something Dane County leaders never seem to get. A lot of the people who have to run in these races own businesses or have to worry about whether their boss decides they're mot welcome any more. They couldn't even get people to run against Grothman and Gallagher for US House seats.
 
Petey4335
2022-11-04 10:39:08 AM  

Ken VeryBigLiar: Petey4335: The county party seems to be more active, but has a hard time finding people to run for down ballot positions, meaning anything from state rep on down is unopposed R's. I won't because because there are some ghosts in our family closet, while not illegal or immoral for those still living here, is not worth putting into a spotlight because it involves my kids who don't deserve to be publicly dragged into another's stupidity. And it wouldn't put it past the R's to amplify out of proportion someone else's life choices.

That's the tough part for rural Democrats and something Dane County leaders never seem to get. A lot of the people who have to run in these races own businesses or have to worry about whether their boss decides they're mot welcome any more. They couldn't even get people to run against Grothman and Gallagher for US House seats.


But hey, i got 'random guy throwing my name in the hat' up against Fitzgerald. 🙄
 
Begoggle
2022-11-04 11:37:15 AM  
"I believe someone was trying to point out how easy it is to get military ballots in Wisconsin. Registration for military ballots is not required, so a fictitious name and birthdate is all that is required to obtain a military ballot online," Brandtjen said in the statement.

So why is registration required for the rest of us?
Why can't all people in all states vote early/absentee?
We know why.
 
misanthropicsob [OhFark]
2022-11-04 11:46:11 AM  
Why are Democrats pissed off that an election official, one who had been with the commission for 7 years, whistleblew and demonstrated how a system could be exploited?

This seems like a large hole in the process. Given the number of military ballots, is it possible for all of the military ballots to be triple checked against a database after they come in? Why shouldn't the military ballot request form be checking against the voter registration database to see if the voter actually exists in the system?
 
Ken VeryBigLiar
2022-11-04 11:50:21 AM  

Petey4335: Ken VeryBigLiar: Petey4335: The county party seems to be more active, but has a hard time finding people to run for down ballot positions, meaning anything from state rep on down is unopposed R's. I won't because because there are some ghosts in our family closet, while not illegal or immoral for those still living here, is not worth putting into a spotlight because it involves my kids who don't deserve to be publicly dragged into another's stupidity. And it wouldn't put it past the R's to amplify out of proportion someone else's life choices.

That's the tough part for rural Democrats and something Dane County leaders never seem to get. A lot of the people who have to run in these races own businesses or have to worry about whether their boss decides they're mot welcome any more. They couldn't even get people to run against Grothman and Gallagher for US House seats.

But hey, i got 'random guy throwing my name in the hat' up against Fitzgerald. 🙄


Between the no hope guys and the high likelihood the 3rd becomes a Republican seat they better hope Evers holds on or Barnes pulls out the win over RoJo or it's going to make the Walker era seem quaint.
 
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