More than 100 ballots missing in 17th Senate District primary recount

[hue]

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More than 100 ballots are missing in the 17th Senate District Democratic primary recount, a city clerk in Green County said Tuesday.

Official results showed Ernie Wittwer leading Pat Bomhack by just seven votes out of more than 7,600 cast, prompting Bomhack to request a recount, which began Monday.

But Green County officials discovered Monday night that the number of ballots counted by voting machines in the city of Monroe on Aug. 12 and certified by the board of canvassers was about 110 votes higher than the number of ballots counted Monday during the recount, Monroe City Clerk Carol Stamm said.

“We’re still trying to work this through,” Stamm said. “I can assure you that the city followed all the protocols that we were supposed to do.”

[Shrike47]

1. Well, for goodness sake, they followed protocol! What do you want?

For a vote count that small, they didn't need machines to begin with, which I don't trust one tiny bit.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Paper ballots are the gold standard and they create jobs. If there is not enough money for paper

ballots in the most exceptional and democratic nation in history then there is something really fishy going on.

Why is America happy with the bronze medal in reliable and verifiable voter counting methods?

[Jackpine Radical]

3. That race was totally off my radar. Anybody got any insights?