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Sheboygan & Milwaukee recount observers still needed by the Kloppenburg team.

Statewide Recount in Supreme Court Race

It’s Spring, and so my wife and I decided to do an especially fine job with the cleaning this week. One of the duties which was placed under my charge was vacuuming, which in the Spring involves moving the sofa and getting underneath and behind it. I finally got around to it last night. Why am I telling you this? Because lo and behold, when I moved the sofa I happened to come across almost 18,000 ballots for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race between David Prosser and Joanne Kloppenburg. About 15,200 of them were for Kloppenburg, while about 2,800 of them were for Prosser. So it appears that Kloppenburg is once again ahead in the final tally, having gained roughly 12,400 votes. I want to emphasize that this is simply a result of human error, and that error is mine. I sincerely apologize — I did not mean to lose track of these votes. I also want to stress that these are not “new votes” — I actually filled out all of these ballots back in February. I am truly sorry for my error, but thankfully I found them just as the candidate that I supported was going to lose a very important race in Wisconsin politics. You can imagine the amount of egg I have on my face today. I am so sorry. I suppose this means that Ms. Kloppenburg could once again declare victory, but let’s wait on that. There might be some Republican employees out there in conservative counties that still need to do their Spring Cleaning, too.