Thursday, April 5, 2012
The Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch
The Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch
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Wisconsin County's Election-Count Meltdown Raises Concerns For Recall | The Nation
Wisconsin County's Election-Count Meltdown Raises Concerns For Recall | The Nation
After Wisconsinites voted Tuesday in presidential primary elections and contests for local posts, other countries across the state reported their returns so quickly that winners were being declared well before 10 pm.
Except in Waukesha County.
Nickolaus, who has frequently been criticized over the years for maintaining convoluted systems for vote counting, was in the middle of another massive screw up.
A new reporting program she had set up—along with a complicated set of procedures that required municipal clerks to deliver voting-machine memory packs and paper tapes with results to her—failed. As a result, according to media reports, "data collectors for election reporting services resorted to tabulating contested races from yards of paper tapes hanging on walls around a meeting room. The process was akin to reading a long grocery receipt where, in some cases, the tape stretched down the wall and onto the floor in a heap."
"Well into Wednesday," long after Republican presidential primary winner Mitt Romney (whose 44–37 victory over Rick Santorum relied on a big boost from Waukesha County), local media reported, "county staffers were entering every vote total for every candidate in every race and every municipality by hand, and then proofed them against the voting machine tapes before posting totals online." Full Article Here | The Nation
PepsiCo Ends Partnership With Right-Wing Front Group ALEC | ThinkProgress
PepsiCo Ends Partnership With Right-Wing Front Group ALEC | ThinkProgress
PepsiCo, the world’s second largest beverage company, has ended its partnership with ALEC, the controversial right-wing group that lobbies for voter suppression efforts. Pepsi’s move, which actually came in January but was first reported this morning by NPR, may also have had a role in compelling Coca-Cola to drop its support for ALEC.
Yesterday, progressive advocacy group Color of Change announced a boycott effort targeting several other corporations that are still members of the group, which for years has partnered with elected officials at a state level to draft and pass controversial, far-right legislation. Just a few hours later, Coke announced that they too are severing ties with the ALEC. As NPR reported today: Read Full Article Here | ThinkProgress
PepsiCo, the world’s second largest beverage company, has ended its partnership with ALEC, the controversial right-wing group that lobbies for voter suppression efforts. Pepsi’s move, which actually came in January but was first reported this morning by NPR, may also have had a role in compelling Coca-Cola to drop its support for ALEC.Yesterday, progressive advocacy group Color of Change announced a boycott effort targeting several other corporations that are still members of the group, which for years has partnered with elected officials at a state level to draft and pass controversial, far-right legislation. Just a few hours later, Coke announced that they too are severing ties with the ALEC. As NPR reported today: Read Full Article Here | ThinkProgress
Waukesha County clerk needs to step down - JSOnline
Waukesha County clerk needs to step down - JSOnline
"In the end, the full results were counted and reported, just as they were last spring. But how can the citizens of Waukesha have any confidence that something else won't go wrong in the next election; something that will call into question the results?
They can't as long as Nickolaus remains in office. She needs to step down or at the very least step aside and ask for the help her office so obviously needs from other county officials or from the state to ensure that questions don't arise about the next election."
"In the end, the full results were counted and reported, just as they were last spring. But how can the citizens of Waukesha have any confidence that something else won't go wrong in the next election; something that will call into question the results?
They can't as long as Nickolaus remains in office. She needs to step down or at the very least step aside and ask for the help her office so obviously needs from other county officials or from the state to ensure that questions don't arise about the next election."
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