GAB Unhappy Being GOP's Punching Bag

Republicans wrung weeks of propaganda about voting fraud from the recount they lost in the June 5th Racine Senate election won by Democrat John Lehman, and the Government Accountability Board has said in writing it is tired of unfounded attacks on the election process the Board oversees in the state.

It's a bold move by the Board, as the entire campaign for Voter ID in Wisconsin - - led by Republicans armed with less data and more ALEC-driven partisan talking points - - is a judgement that the Board has failed to protect the integrity of the election process in Wisconsin.

Pdf file of the letter, here.

The Voter ID crowd has barely said a word about multiple election snafus in Waukesha County, where Kathy Nickolaus, a secretive GOP County Clerk, has posted erroneous result and kept election data on a password-protected computer off the county system.

She is leaving office at the end of her turbulent current term in January, 2013, and also leaving taxpayers a bill of more than a quarter-million dollars in fixes to a system she 'managed.'

That's where the election system in Wisconsin has had its reputation challenged.

But don't expect that legislative Republicans will take kindly to the Board's letter. If the GOP wins back the Senate and retains the Assembly, look for the GAB's budget or authority to take a retaliatory hit.