TM7- Before you mold a new hat out of tinfoil you should look at the facts and not just the propaganda...Without those votes Waukesha county would have been way below in voting percentage than it should have been. Historically Waukesha is one of the highest turnout rates in the country and also extremely conservative. You liberals just aren't used to loosing in such fashion, and are just looking for another frivolous reason to take it to the courts as usual... From MJS---
The Brookfield Bombshell -- the sudden appearance of thousands of decisive ballots in the state Supreme Court race – invites all sorts of obvious questions and suspicions about politics and incompetence.
But do the voting figures look “fishy” from a purely numerical standpoint? Are they implausible on their face based on what we know about the turnout history of Brookfield and Waukesha County compared with other places?
Not at first glance.
In the post below, I looked at what the new numbers mean for Waukesha County’s overall turnout picture, and suggested that they actually bring the Waukesha County totals more closely into line with similar nearby counties.
In short, before the “adjustment,” Waukesha County was a big outlier. It showed by far the largest drop-off in turnout between the 2010 race for governor last fall and Tuesday’s judicial race (from about 63% to 37%, for a decline of 26 points). After the adjustment, the drop-off is still one of the biggest in the state (from 63% to 42%), but not freakishly so. The statewide drop-off in turnout rate was 16 points, from 50% to 34%.
But here are some other ways to slice the numbers.
The new figures put the total vote in the city of Brookfield at 14,315. Brookfield has a voting-age population in the 2010 Census of 29,007. (You can find Census data here) So that would make its April 5 turnout equal to 49.4% of voting-age adults.
That number is 15 points higher than the statewide turnout of roughly 34%, but Brookfield is a high-turnout community in a high-turnout county. Last fall, Brookfield had a rather amazing turnout of 73% of voting-age adults, which was 23 points higher than the statewide turnout of 50% of voting-age adults.
The 49% Brookfield turnout is also higher than the overall turnout in Brookfield's home county, Waukesha, which would equal 42% of voting-age adults using the adjusted returns. That's consistent with what happened last fall, when Brookfield's turnout was about nine points higher than the turnout rate in Waukesha County as a whole.
Nor would a 49% turnout rate in Brookfield be out of line with other upscale communities that have high voting rates, according to calculations based on 2010 census data and the still unofficial voting returns from Tuesday.
The city of Madison turnout was roughly the same as Brookfield’s -- about 49%.
Some Milwaukee County suburbs had higher turnout rates than Brookfield, including Whitefish Bay (59%), Shorewood (51%), Fox Point (56%). Others were lower, such as Wauwatosa (48%) and Franklin (40%).