You don’t see this very often.  A “nonpartisan advocacy group” (the mis-appropriated “Velvet Revolution”) put up a $25,000 cash reward for information on any voter fraud that leads to the reversal of the victory of David Prosser in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.  Prosser leads JoAnne Kloppenburg by at least 7,000 votes.  Twenty five large for a voter fraud reward?!  Why might this contest spark a record reward for information on voter fraud? 

You can see the wanted poster, styled after something from Dodge City, here.

The press release states:

“Advocates of election integrity have become experienced in seeing early warning signs that indicate possible election tampering, and we saw some of those indicators in this race,” said project director Emily Levy. “For that reason, we strongly recommended that the votes be counted by hand statewide, since the computerized election systems are known to produce incorrect results and can easily be manipulated.”

By all means abandon those machine counts.  After all, those hand counts, with dozens of humans fingering documents and tabulating numbers in their heads are sure to be more reliable than computers.  Obviously this Luddite approach to election adminstration will invite human error, some accidental, and some certainly not.

For more information on the real Velvet Revolution, click here.