Reply #80: Wisconsin corrects vote count, gives incumbent Supreme Count Justice David Prosser big lead [View All]

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Wisconsin corrects vote count, gives incumbent Supreme Count Justice David Prosser big lead
JoAnne Kloppenburg now faces 7,500-vote deficit
6:05 PM, Apr. 7, 2011 |
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Written by
The Associated Press


WAUKESHA — A conservative-leaning Wisconsin county is correcting its count and giving an unofficial 7,500-vote lead to the incumbent in the hotly contested state Supreme Court race seen as a referendum on Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s divisive union rights law.

Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said Thursday that the votes weren’t reported to The Associated Press on Tuesday due to “human error.”

Before the announcement, it was assumed 68-year-old conservative Justice David Prosser’s race against liberal assistant state attorney general JoAnne Kloppenburg was headed for a recount.

But Prosser’s lead is likely to stand if the new numbers hold up through canvassing in all of Wisconsin’s 72 counties................


Read more: http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20110407/APC0101/110407121/Prosser-takes-big-lead-recounts-could-flip-Supreme-Court-race?odyssey=mod|lateststories

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This has to be the most devastating news for all of us who -just a few short hours ago were elated.