We've got the actual documents from Wauwatosa and it's not surprising that Jim Sullivan did not vote in 1998 as conspiracy theorist and Tom Reynolds backer Bob Dohnal claims.

The bogus questions about Sullivan are coming from JJ Blonien, campaign manager for State Senator Tom Reynolds.  Blonien claimed that he had nothing to do with the claims but blogger Xoff exposed that the claims were coming from the Reynolds camp because the Microsoft Word document that Blonien gave to Stan Zurawski to diseminate throughout the blogosphere had Blonien's name in the properties field of Word.  Zurawski has been the head of Tosans for Responsible Government, the group that is a part of the GOP front group, Citizens for Responsible Government. 

Zurawski and Dohnal are claiming that Sullivan voted in September 1998 in Wauwatosa as well in Whitefish Bay.   Jim Sullivan's father, Jim Sullivan Sr. lives in Whitefish Bay but in September '98, Sullivan Jr. was housesitting for his parents who were out of the country for a few months.  The electronic records in Wauwatosa show that Sullivan Jr voted in Wauwatosa while living on Blanchard Street.  The problem is that the paper records which are always verified by to poll workers on the day of the election show that Sullivan Jr. did not vote in Wauwatosa on that date despite the claims of the Reynolds cronnies. 

In any village or city, after the double verified records have been submitted to an election official at the end of the night, they are manually entered into a database if a person has voted.  In Wauwatosa it appears that the data entry clerk didn't do his or her job correctly because while the double checked voter sheet shows that Sullivan did not vote in Wauwatosa, the electronic data entered after voting day does show that he voted.

You would think that any decent person with a sense of right and wrong, in other words a person with a moral compass, would have checked both records before making the accusation, but the Reynolds camp didn't believe it was necessary to do their due diligence before making such a scandalous claim. 

Here is the page from the voter roll where Sullivan would have voted but as you can see, Sullivan didn't vote in Wauwatosa in 1998.  One has to wonder what new myth Dohnal and his zany partisan pal Stan Zurawski will come up with now.