WILL A RECOUNT FIND FRAUD IN DIST. 21?

Senate District 21 recount final, unsettled

http://www.wisconsinreporter.com/senate-district-21-recount-final-unsettled

Wisconsin Reporter -- M.D. Kittle – 7/2/2012

MADISON — Van Wanggaard has five business days to decide whether he wants to continue fighting -- The incumbent Republican senator of the 21st Senate District remained 819 votes behind Democratic challenger John Lehman early Monday afternoon, when an extensive recount wrapped up.

If Wanggaard concedes, Lehman returns to the seat he held before Wanggaard defeated him in November 2010, giving Democrats, at least for now, a 17-16 majority in the state Senate.

The final count from canvassers:

Lehman with 36,358 votes,

Wanggaard with 35,539 votes.

“Unfortunately, rather than clarify the myriad of issues that surfaced on June 5, the recount uncovered even more suspicious activity,” Wanggaard said in his statement. The recount uncovered:

Missing pages in poll books,

Missing signatures on supplemental poll lists,

Incorrect voting numbers,

Unsealed and sealed and reopened ballot bags in wards in Racine.

“None of these issues would have been discovered without the recount,”

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