Milwaukee County Canvass and Recount

UPDATE:

From the MacIver Institute:

NEWS-Milw County canvass will NOT be completed today afterall.

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Milwaukee County will complete its canvass today.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

With every vote being scrutinized in the state Supreme Court race in the wake of the so-called "Brookfield bombshell," the Milwaukee County Election Commission is expected to complete its canvass of vote totals and send the results to state officials on Thursday.

Milwaukee County Election Administrator Lisa Weiner said Wednesday that commission workers were proofing and double-checking their work related to the April 5 vote.

Weiner and Deputy Election Administrator Suzette Emmer said no significant discrepancies have been found during the canvass.

Although Milwaukee County's canvass remained incomplete late Wednesday, its current Supreme Court race totals when tallied with other counties' totals reported to the state's Government Accountability Board show that incumbent Justice David Prosser continues to lead challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg by about 7,300 votes.

...Milwaukee County, the state's most populous county, is typically the last to certify its results.

Friday is the deadline to turn in canvass results to the state. "The state's not rushing us," Weiner said.

...The deadline for requesting a recount is Tuesday.

Either candidate in the Supreme Court race can ask for a recount, but not until the canvass is complete.

If the margin between the candidates is less than 0.5% of the total ballots cast, the state charges nothing to conduct the recount.

Kloppenburg is hovering near the margin of a state-funded recount.

This statement is extremely misleading.

If the margin between the candidates is less than 0.5% of the total ballots cast, the state charges nothing to conduct the recount.

That's not true.

The state wouldn't charge a candidate for the cost of a recount, but it's not as if the state would charge nothing.

A recount wouldn't be free.

Nothing the government does is free.

The Journal Sentinel should be clear. Taxpayers will foot the bill if the margin between the candidates is less than 0.5%

Either JoAnne Kloppenburg and her allies in Wisconsin and around the country will pay or we, the taxpayers of Wisconsin, will.

If the unions and Kloppenburg want to drag the state through a recount, I hope they have to cover the cost.