Recount Of 32nd State Senate Election Continues In Western Wisconsin

As county clerks across Wisconsin are preparing for a recount of presidential ballots, a recount of votes for the 32nd state Senate district in western Wisconsin is already underway.

Crawford and Monroe counties are expected to finish their review Tuesday, while La Crosse county officials says they hope to be done by Friday.

Republican Dan Kapanke requested a recount last week after state Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling won re-election by only 56 votes.

But Crawford County Clerk Janet Geisler said she’s not expecting the election results to change.

“If there is going to be change, sometimes it might just be simply a paper ballot,” Geisler said. “One maybe that was rejected shouldn’t have been, something along that line.”

But she said that isn’t a major concern this year.

“There was actually very, very few (ballots) rejected and some of them were simply because the people came to the polls instead of the absentee so then of course the absentee was rejected,” Geisler said.

By Tuesday morning, Geisler said only an additional ballot had been thrown out, leaving Kapanke with one less vote.

Monroe County’s clerk also reported one less vote for Kapanke after the first day of the recount.