The Government Accountability Board will officially announce Monday a recount for the Supreme Court Election that will commence Wednesday morning.
The GAB will meet with the Wisconsin County Clerks and the Milwaukee County Election Commission Monday to make the announcement and discuss the details of the recall process.
In addition, the Supreme Court candidates and the GAB reached an agreement Thursday in the Dane County Circuit Court to hand count the ballots of certain municipalities in 31 counties.
Parts of Dane and Waukesha Counties and the whole city of Milwaukee will be subject to manual recounts because they use Optech Eagle scanners with removable memory cartridges.
The problem with the Optech Eagle scanners is that their cartridges cannot hold the data from the April election in addition to the recount, and the manufacturer does not have enough cartridges to replace them.
As of the most recent tally from the election, Supreme Court Justice David Prosser was ahead of Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg by about 7,300 votes, just under the required number for a state-funded recount.
Kloppenburg was beating Prosser by a margin of 200 votes before Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced she forgot to include votes from the town of Brookfield, which requested the recount last week.
""It is right for me, it is right for my campaign, it is right for my supporters, and it is right for the people of Wisconsin,"" Kloppenburg said of the recount.
Prosser said by requesting the recount, Kloppenburg was attempting to ""challenge and disenfranchise thousands of Wisconsin citizens who exercised their right to vote April 5 and believed this election over.""
