Error Swings Wisconsin Race
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 8th, 2011 4:37 am by HL
Error Swings Wisconsin Race
In what looked like a photo finish election for Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports a clerk found thousands of previously untallied votes for that gave a 7,500-vote edge to incumbent, Justice David Prosser.
“Once the final official numbers are in, either candidate — but no one else — can request a recount. If the margin between the candidates is less than 0.5%, the state charges nothing to conduct the recount. But the added votes from Waukesha County could push the total far enough toward Prosser that a free recount would no longer be available to JoAnne Kloppenburg, who on Wednesday had an unofficial 204-vote lead out of nearly 1.5 million votes cast.”
Kilpatrick’s New Friend
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s (D) new prison bunkmate is a 28-year-old convicted murderer, the Detroit Free Press reports.
James Thomas, Kilpatrick’s lawyer “said if it were up to him, he would have picked a different cellmate for his client. But, he said, he won’t second-guess the prison officials who made the decision. And he’s not worried about his client rooming with a killer.”
Said Thomas: “I’ll give the guy the benefit of the doubt.”
