The results of the Nov. 2 election in Milwaukee were certified without any double-checking of the totals by the city or county panels charged with oversight, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:

polling-place discrepancies between the number of ballots cast and the count of voters at many wards went undiscovered until long after the election results were finalized.

The State Elections Board on Thursday opened a review into why the city did not comply with a state law that requires it to provide copies of key materials to the county by 2 p.m. the day after the election – and why the county OK’d the results without seeing the documents.

Kevin Kennedy, executive director of the state board, said the sequence of events, only now coming to light, meant key safeguards were ignored.

Indeed, had officials caught those polling-place gaps – at the ward level, or later by the city or by county canvassers – hundreds of ballots could have been set aside and not counted to adjust for the difference, as called for by state law.

Or, at minimum, discrepancies could have been resolved to help assure an accurate count in a razor-thin election in which Wisconsin nearly became the decisive state in the battle for the White House.

Kerry won Wisconsin by 11,384 votes.

Previously:
- Wisconsin’s Election Fraud Scandal: Where’s the MSM/Dem Outrage?