Recall Recount Day 3: Wanggaard Net Gain of Ten

By the time lunch rolled around on Friday, Republican Van Wanggaard picked up a net 10 votes amongst the seven municipalities where the recall recount has completed.

Wanggaard, on June 5, filed a petition June 8 with the state Government Accountability Board . Wanggaard lost by 834 votes — with Lehman receiving 36,351 votes and Wanggaard getting 35,517 votes.

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Patch visited the Racine County Courthouse for an update on the process to recount almost 73,000 votes for the historic Wisconsin recall elections. , Racine County Clerk Wendy Christensen and her crew had gone through about 10,000 votes with Wanggaard picking up a net total of four votes.

The process as of noon Friday, Christensen said, is moving along more smoothly.

"We're making up a little bit of time from the first two days when we were getting the system down," she explained. "Plus, we've completed some of the smaller communities, and that makes a difference, too."

Here are the totals:

Dover: Wanggaard 1,156, up from 1,154; Lehman 597, down from 598

Norway: Wanggaard 3,169, down from 3,172; Lehman 1,170, down from 1,172

Raymond: Wanggaard 1,466, up from 1,465; Lehman 720, down from 721

Yorkville: Wanggaard 1,092, no change; Lehman 516, no change

Elmwood Park: Wanggaard 150 no change; Lehman 149 no change

North Bay: Wanggaard 96, no change; Lehman 67, down from 68

Caledonia: Wanggaard 7,765, up from 7,757; Lehman 5,415, up from 5,412

Deputy clerks and volunteers were just getting started on Union Grove and Sturtevant as the close of the lunch hour.

Editor's Note: We made a mathematical error. Wanggaard actually has a net gain of 10 votes and not seven as originally reported. We have made the correction and regret the error.