The Wisconsin Supreme Court race recount is starting to take shape, WisPolitics reports, with the campaigns of incumbent conservative Justice David Prosser and liberal-backed challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg agreeing in court Thursday to a procedure: It will be part-machine recount, and part-hand recount.
Normally, the state would have conducted a machine recount, in which the ballots would be re-run under careful supervision. However, some areas with older machines would require their existing memory cartridges to be erased in order to re-run the ballots — thus destroying an original record of the count from election night.
As a result, the campaigns have agreed that in those municipalities where this issue presents itself, the recount will be done by hand, with a machine count in areas where it is feasible to do so without erasing original data.
Via Jessica Arp from the local CBS affiliate in Madison, a list of the counties that will be partially hand-recounted is available here.
