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The City of Milwaukee has revised its results for the April 5 election after a NewsBuzz investigation found errors in the report for two wards. The revised results show a loss of 12 votes for challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg, who initially appeared to enjoy a razor-thin majority in the race for Supreme Court justice.

The data originally sent to the state’s Government Accountability Board Elections Division did not include the machine totals for two south side wards, which shared a polling place at the Water Tower building in the 13th Aldermanic District.

According to election commission Executive Director Sue Edman, initial vote counts of just 24 ballots cast in Ward 223 and 24 ballots cast in Ward 225 “were only the absentee ballots cast in those two wards.” They did not include the tallies stored in the two machines at the polling place.

The erroneous results reported to the state showed Prosser with just 12 votes and Kloppenburg with 15 votes cast in Ward 223 and Prosser with 5 votes and Kloppenburg with 18 votes in Ward 225.

JoAnne Kloppenburg

However, this comfortable margin of victory for Kloppenburg evaporated when the machine totals were added. In fact, Prosser carried both wards.

The new totals, which include the absentee votes previously recorded, show Prosser with 223 votes and Kloppenburg with 219 votes in Ward 223, and Prosser with 229 votes and Kloppenburg with 241 votes in Ward 225.

Totals for the race continue to change as discrepancies have been found in Winnebago County, New Berlin and Kenosha County. The change in Milwaukee’s numbers would result in a loss of 12 votes for Kloppenburg.

In her press release, Edman noted that as the city was completing its comparison of election machine tapes to election results, it was contacted by a reporter for NewsBuzz and verified the results he had discovered.

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