Around the state, elections officials Thursday were tweaking unofficial results from the day before that had put challenger and Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg ahead of incumbent David Prosser by a razor-thin 204 votes. But the new figures appearing to put Prosser ahead were also far from final and could change multiple times before the contest is finished.JSOnline
Brian Nemoir, campaign manager for Prosser, said he expects the totals to remain fluid.
"Everything we're hearing right now indicates that we're going to be in a recount," Nemoir said. "There's not anything that's going to decide this today or tomorrow."
One of the first discrepancies popped up in Winnebago County, where figures on the county's website are now different from an unofficial tally compiled by The Associated Press and used by news organizations statewide, including the Journal Sentinel.
Winnebago County's numbers say Prosser received 20,701 votes to Kloppenburg's 18,887. The AP has 19,991 for Prosser to Kloppenburg's 18,421.
How close does the race have to be to warrant a recount?
4 comments:
Didn't Kloppenburg already declare victory? http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/article_212b0a92-5ff3-11e0-8d71-001cc4c002e0.html
It seems it may have been rather premature of her.
Pretty silly considering there would be a recount anyway. There will be quite a bit of lawyering going on in the next few weeks.
Dang, this race is extremely close.
Watch. It'll be another Al Franken "oops somebody left these ballots in the back of this pick-up truck and they're all votes for me!" I don't have much faith in the system when one side consistently cheats without being called on it.
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