The recount in the much-watched Wisconsin state Supreme Court race is set to begin on Wednesday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:
The recount will begin in all 72 counties at 9 a.m. Wednesday and under state law is to be completed by May 9. That tight timeline means the recounts may be conducted in some counties on weekends, said Mike Haas, an attorney for the Government Accountability Board.
The schedule was spelled out in a teleconference the accountability board held for county clerks. Nearly all of the 72 clerks participated, many of them with their staff and members of their local canvassing boards.
Liberal-backed challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg formally requested the recount last week, with incumbent conservative Justice David Prosser ahead by 7,316 votes, or 0.488%. This is within the 0.5% margin that entitled Kloppenburg to request a recount at state and local government expense — and followed the controversial announcement by the county clerk in heavily Republican Waukesha County that she had discovered un-tabulated votes that were not properly added to the county’s database, putting Prosser ahead after trailing in the initial numbers.
