NEW INFORMATION: Kloppenburg requests recount, no cost estimate from GAB.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Supreme Court challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg asked election officials Wednesday for a statewide recount in her flagging upset bid against Justice David Prosser, a race that marked yet another front in the fight over Republican Gov. Scott Walker's polarizing union rights law.
Final county tallies compiled last week showed Prosser held a 7,316-vote lead over the little-known state attorney. The margin is within one-half of 1 percent of the total votes cast, entitling Kloppenburg to a statewide recount at local governments expense.
Reid Magney, a spokesman for the Government Accountability Board, which oversees Wisconsin elections, said he had no estimates for what the recount might cost local officials. Suzette Emmer, the deputy Administrator for the Milwaukee County Election Commission, says the commission estimates the recount would cost that county alone about $500,000.
"cost that ONE county alone $500,000...
Well WHY NOT spend it? It's NOT YOURS.
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