Wednesday, April 27, 2011
11:18 AM
Glitch in Waukesha County recount
Waukesha County’s recount had a hiccup this morning after the numbers marked on one of two ballot bags from the Town of Brookfield and a security tag did not quite match that on the election inspector’s list.
All three numbers, which do not indicate number of votes in each bag, are supposed to match.
Retired Judge Robert Mawdsley, who is presiding over the recount because Clerk Kathy Nickolaus recused herself, ordered that only one bag could be opened immediately and asked that the second remain sealed.
He asked Brookfield Town Clerk Jane Carlson, who is present at the recount, for an explanation.
“Honestly, I don’t know,” she replied.
But after a short consultation with observers from both the Prosser and Kloppenburg campaigns, it was decided to open the second bag of ballots as well and continue.
The recount is starting with the Town of Brookfield and will then proceed to the Town of Delafield. There are 12 tabulators divided into teams. Four of them are going over poll lists, while eight are counting the actual ballots, stacking them by candidate in piles of 25.
They will switch and do a second count of each pile.
Finally, two other tabulators are working with absentee ballots.
-- By Kay Nolan
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