Thursday, June 21, 2012
12:29 PM
GAB's first-day recount tally shows Wanggaard even, Lehman down 3 votes
The Government Accountability Board's tally of the first day of the SD 21 recount shows the margin essentially unchanged after 9,893 of the almost 72,000 ballots cast in the election were recounted.
In the four municipalities surveyed on Wednesday, incumbent Van Wanggaard ended up with no change in his vote total while Dem challenger John Lehman lost three votes.
* See the GAB spreadsheet from the first day
Wanggaard, R-Racine, entered the recount trailing Racine Dem John Lehman by 834 votes -- 36,351 to 35,517 -- according to the official canvass of the June 5 vote.
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