Both sides of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race are gathering lawyers together for the potential recount and litigation over the race — with some familiar names from a certain other recount that took place in the Midwest.
The Capital Times reports:
Kloppenburg’s campaign is working with Marc Elias, an attorney with Perkins Coie, a Washington D.C.-based firm with an office in downtown Madison. Elias is the same attorney who represented Democratic challenger Al Franken in his eight-month epic recount battle with incumbent Republican Norm Coleman. Franken eventually prevailed, winning his U.S. Senate seat by 312 votes.
Prosser has hired Ben Ginsberg, a Washington-D.C. attorney who played a prominent role in the 2000 Bush-Gore presidential recount effort in Florida. He was also part of the team that represented Coleman in his recount effort. Prosser has also retained Madison attorney Jim Troupis, and Dan Kelly, who is based in Milwaukee.
In an ironic role reversal, this election could now turn on the question of thousands of newly-tabulated votes for Prosser that were discovered in the canvass of heavily Republican Waukesha County’s precincts — an idea that Republican and most of the media treated very skeptically when a small fraction of that amount were found in Al Franken’s favor in 2008.
