(WI) Court Race May Come Down to the Town of Lake Mills (Updated)

[iwishiwas]

jefferson cty still has one ward not counted per AP--so the wait is on.. (Two lacking from Milwaukee cty also)



http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2011/by_county/WI_Supreme_Court_0405.html?SITE=AP&SECTION=POLITICS

Jefferson 40/41 12,860
58% 9,365
42%


http://www.lakemillsleaderonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=22&ArticleID=4937

Court Race May Come Down to the Town of Lake Mills (Updated)
Randy Radtke
Managing Editor

With fewer than 200 votes separating incumbent Supreme Court Justice David Prosser and his challenger assistant attorney general JoAnne Kloppenburg, the election outcome could be affected by the Town of Lake Mills where all the votes have not yet been counted.

Because of problems with its tally seats, the township has not officially reported any vote tallies as of yet to Jefferson County and that means that between 700 and 760 votes have not been entered in the statewide totals for a seat on the state's highest court.

Election officials in the township were expected to meet at 8:30 a.m. this morning to finish counting 24 paper ballots that have not yet been counted, make the necessary correction to their tally sheets and then report their vote totals to the County Clerk's office at the courthouse. But that meeting did not occur because of a lack of a quorum of the town's Board of Canvassers. A new meeting time has been officially posted by town officials and is now scheduled to begin at 11:45 a.m.

[shraby]

1. Should that be tally seats or tally sheets? If it's tally seats,

what are those?

[ewagner]

2. lack of a quorum?

for a Board of Canvassers?

are repubs fleeing to Illinois to prevent a quorum? TREASON! TREASON I SAy! lolol :rofl:

[CreekDog]

20. lack of quorum the day after an election?

:wtf:

[shraby]

3. I have about 11:30 now, It shouldn't take them long to count

24 ballots and get the tallies entered so I would think they should be posted by at the very latest at 12:30.

[iwishiwas]

21. 12:25 pm now.

[wildcardcharlie]

4. Two are not lacking from Milwaukee

That's just the AP being slow to update. All Milwaukee votes are in...

news3jessica
Just spoke to someone at Milw Co Election Commission, who says all their results are in, don't know why AP reports 2 precincts out. 33 minutes ago via TweetDeck

[mvd]

5. A DUer said that's Dane County, not Milwaukee

[wildcardcharlie]

7. He's wrong

She said "Milwaukee County Election Commission"

[mvd]

9. I will reserve judgment on that

Haven't seen your info. anywhere else.

[wildcardcharlie]

10. What??

The info he is getting it from is her tweet that I just posted. She clearly says "Milwaukee Co Election commission" and he somehow misinterpreted that as "Dane County"

[itsrobert]

11. Milw all in, LINK

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2011/by_county/WI_Supreme_Court_0405.html?SITE=AP&SECTION=POLITICS

[mvd]

18. Did they just come in, like another thread said?

If so, they should be posting the numbers with an increased lead for K.

Even the one conservative county shouldn't give Prosser enough.

[disillusioned73]

15. That's disappointing... I was wondering how there was no

change once those two precincts were posted... ughh

[wildcardcharlie]

6. More info

news3jessica
In case everyone didn't see, we won't have results out of Lake Mills (Jefferson Co) until after Noon probably. http://bit.ly/eIFI9R 5 minutes ago via TweetDeck

In 2010, Town of Lake Mills, voted 431 for Barrett, 551 for Walker. 8 minutes ago via TweetDeck

[eleny]

8. Here's to hoping that a bunch of Lake Mills Walker voters have had buyers remorse

[wildcardcharlie]

12. AP now lists Milwaukee County as counted

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2011/by_county/WI_Page_0405.html?SITE=AP&SECTION=POLITICS

[EOTE]

13. The little town I used to call my home.

Kind of backwards in some respects, but I found it charming. Only had a few thousand people as I recall. I loved it because it was midway between Madison and Milwaukee. Two very different, but very fun cities. I miss Wisconsin.

[wildcardcharlie]

14. If I'm reading this correctly

Prosser needs about 65% of the Lake Mills vote to win, perhaps a tad less. That's gonna be difficult.

[iwishiwas]

19. It's 58 to 42 % now--that would be a real sqeeker.

Jefferson 40/41 12,860
58% 9,365
42%

[wildcardcharlie]

30. Yeah, but

The town of Lake Mills is not as conservative as the rest of Jefferson Co. Word is that it's 50/50 there.

[iwishiwas]

42. I hope the 'word' is spot on.

[wildcardcharlie]

16. Her lead just went from 224 to 230

They're counting again. Start praying.

[iwishiwas]

17. Lake Mills is NOW THE ONLY ONE LEFT NOT REPORTED.

[hfojvt]

22. then I fully expect Kloppenburg to take Prosser to the Lake Mills Cleaners

which happens to be owned by distant relatives of mine.

http://www.lakemillscleaners.com/

[iwishiwas]

44. Sleepy Lake Mills is having their 15 minutes of fame moment.

[eleny]

23. +235

[Maraya1969]

26. Is that the final tally? This whole thing has been driving me mad.

[wildcardcharlie]

28. Not the final tally

But from what everyone is reporting, Prosser will not pick up enough votes there to pass Kloppenburg. She will win, pending the recount of course.

[eleny]

34. It's the current from the Journal Sentinel

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/118885959.html

[iwishiwas]

41. MAD...ME TOO

[wildcardcharlie]

24. From the Twitter of someone who is close to the count

nicknicemadison
Lake Mills FTW!!!! (not official yet but she's got it, it's a 50-50 wash there) #wiunion 3 minutes ago via web

[TheMightyFavog]

25. From Wisconsin Public Radio's Facebook

"JS Online: Lake Mills results expected at 1pm. "About 220 votes were cast in Town of Lake Mills - apparently not enough for Justice Dave Prosser to make up the votes he would need to defeat challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg."

What? I thought there were 760 votes?

[City Lights]

27. I've got the champagne ready!

Please, please let it be so!

:bounce:

[iwishiwas]

31. Let it be...let it be......

[iwishiwas]

29. So, it is another 20 wait at least.

[Contrary1]

32. Got this off twitter:

Town of Lake Mills Prosser 366 Kloppenburg 364... an UNOFFICIAL count. Plus about 40 with write-ins.

[TheMightyFavog]

33. 40 write ins?

O_o

[iwishiwas]

35. so, Unofficially -JoAnne WINS --Let it be............

The meeting was publicly noticed and it was her understanding that members of the public were on site in the Town of Lake Mills watching the vote counting.

Hintzmann said the township did not complete its work Tuesday because the process of counting both write-in ballots and paper ballots was not done properly. She did not provide details on what steps were not followed correctly.

Some paper ballots were used in the township because officials ran out of official ballots.

After the township’s board of canvassers finishes its work, the results will be announced by the Jefferson County Clerk.

Jefferson County’s board of canvassers will meet Thursday to certify the vote, Hintzmann said.


http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/119336209.html

[Contrary1]

37. Twitter feed may be incorrect...

Your linked article mentions only about 220 votes cast in Lake Mills.

[iwishiwas]

46. yes, I have seen that figure elsewhere but I forget where.

[onenote]

36. FWIW: in 2008, Jefferson County went for McCain, but Lake Mills

was one of the few wards in the County that went for Obama.

[Ellipsis]

38. Yeah, I think we're in good shape here. Peaceful little burg with their own brew pub.

[iwishiwas]

39. Walker won town of Lake Mills by 120. With Tuesday's turnout running behind Nov., suggests JK lead w

MadPolitics


http://twitter.com/madpolitics

1. CMurphyCT Credit to @NickBohr who appears to be watching the Jefferson Co. count, has Prosser beating Kloppenburg (unofficially) by just 2. #wivote 5 minutes ago via web Retweeted by MadPolitics
2. RT @CMurphyCT: Walker won town of Lake Mills by 120. With Tuesday's turnout running behind Nov., suggests JK lead will stand. #wivote 8 minutes ago via TweetDeck

[Zorra]

40. I call bullshit. nt

[Ellipsis]

43. Nah, it's cool .

[iwishiwas]

45. Smaller crowd at the Fightin Bob fest this year.