Update: David Prosser should demand that voter registrations lists be released and contacted. (Publicus Proventus)

Down below, I noted that it was incumbent (pun intended) on Maybe-Justice-Again David Prosser to demand that public and private phone records and emails be released, immediately, to prove that there was no tampering with vote totals -- documenting the communications (or lack thereof) between his campaign, the Walker administration, the Walker campaign, and Waukesha officials.

Certainly, the press can and should do that, but Prosser must: if he believes that his election was genuine, and he wants the Supreme Court of Wisconsin to have the confidence of the people of Wisconsin, he has to bend over backwards to show that there was no fraud in this election.

Another step Prosser must, and the press should, take is this: Request the list of voters who checked in to vote, and then contact those people to find out if they did in fact vote.

Simply recounting won't solve the problem: while it would be difficult to fake 15,000 ballots, it would not be impossible over the course of a night for one or a few people to do so. So counting the ballots (which likely exist) will not prove the election was (or was not) a sham.

But in Wisconsin, all voters are required to provide a name and address at the time they go vote, and the election officials enter that on a prepared list. Which means that to fake 15,000 votes, the officials either created 15,000 ballots without checking off 15,000 names (in which case there will be a major discrepancy between the number of voters listed on the rolls and the number of ballots cast) or the officials had to check off 15,000 names.

Assuming, then, that the officials checked off 15,000 names of voters while creating 15,000 ballots (I'm not saying they did; I'm just arguing hypothetically), then demanding the voter check-in list will allow reporters (or Kloppenburg workers, or someone) to contact those people and say, simply "Did you vote? The records show you voted. Did you vote?"

Find enough people who say (and can prove) that they didn't vote but someone checked their name, and you've shown a stolen election.

Simple. Time-consuming, but simple, and it should be done, immediately -- and it should be done by David Prosser and his workers, who have every reason to want to prove that his election was not a sham.

"Mr. Prosser's neighborhood in Waukesha County pulled a fast one last night." -- WTDY Newscaster (Publicus Proventus)

David Prosser, if he wants to be a Supreme Court Justice, must insist on full disclosure of public and private records... or his victory -- and I'm assuming it will be -- will be hollow and will further undermine confidence in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, and that confidence is already at an all-time low.

Updated information on the "additional" votes that GOP county clerks are "finding" after Tuesday's election:

GOP "alternate" and Winnebago County Clerk Sue Ertmer explained the extra 244 votes for Prosser-- a number that originally would have had him winning by 40 before Waukesha "found" it's votes -- explained that she, like the Waukesha clerk, "found" the votes:

Clerk Sue Ertmer said Winnebago County is still working on its canvass, but she has discovered several voting machines that didn't report numbers initially. That resulted in a net gain of 244 votes for Justice David Prosser.

Ertmer said four voting machines in the program indicated they had already turned in results. But it was discovered yesterday morning they had not been reported. That resulted in the county website showing Election Night that 100 percent of the vote was in.

(Source.) That paled in comparison to Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus, who ran for that post around the time she was being granted immunity into the criminal investigation involving the Republican Caucus: Nickolaus said that she failed to properly "save" the data in a program called "Access."

The Daily Kos at that same post has a poster who says that with 15 years' experience in that program, he can't imagine Nickolaus' explanation being accurate.

(Nickolaus also blamed typos.)

Meanwhile, the updated canvasses continue to show that in most counties, Prosser lost votes in the official canvas; in Winnebago and Waukesha -- both clerked by GOP operatives -- he gained substantially. In 7 counties, Kloppenburg gained. Prosser's only non-Waukesha/Winnebago gain was in Douglas County... where he got 1 extra vote.

Those "missing" Waukesha votes came -- supposedly-- from Brookfield. But this site says that Brookfield results were reported in the media on Tuesday night (although the link the site provides is dated April 6, not April 5, so it's not clear when they were reported at all.)

What has to happen is this does have to be treated like a full-scale investigation -- and the Walker administration has set the stage for broadening out public records requests by requesting emails from UW professors.

So I'm saying the Democrats, and Kloppenburg, need to immediately file public records requests for all personal and public emails, and incoming and outgoing phone calls (on public and private phones) received by any Waukesha County election worker (or their relatives) from any person who works in any government agency or for any political or judicial campaign -- and then lay public records requests all over the Walker administration for the same, as well as requesting all that from Possibly Justice Again Prosser's staff and campaign -- both to and from Waukesha election officials and their relatives and to and from government workers and Walker campaign staffers.

More importantly, I think Prosser's campaign should insist that those things be released. Prosser called on Kloppenburg to denounce an ad he felt was unfair; he should now live by his own purported ethics, and demand that all those communications be released to prove that he won this election fairly.

If he did.