Wisconsin Recount Results Day 11: What’s Left to Count
The Wisconsin recount. (Getty)
The Wisconsin Election Commission’s day 11 spreadsheet shows that almost every ward in the state has now been fully recounted – except for the Democratic stronghold City of Milwaukee and a few others.
Hillary Clinton has only reduced Donald Trump’s lead by several dozen votes in the days of recounting, nowhere near enough to alter the election. Trump won Wisconsin by more than 22,000 votes. Green Party nominee Jill Stein paid at least $3.5 million in donated money for the recount.
The latest spreadsheet released December 11 shows that the City of Milwaukee’s totals still have not been fully updated to include absentee ballots, even though the Milwaukee County Clerk told the news media the recount was completed on Thursday, December 8, and only minor changes were found. That leaves Milwaukee as pretty much the last lingering mystery before Wisconsin can shut the lid on the 2016 presidential recount.
The clerk did not return an email seeking explanation for the delay in fully reporting to the state. On December 9, the spokesman for the Election Commission told Heavy, “Milwaukee may be done recounting, but they haven’t yet submitted their totals to us. When they do, we’ll mark them as complete.”
The December 11 update reads, “Numbers for the City of Milwaukee do not include absentee ballots, which have not yet been recounted. Milwaukee counts its absentee ballots centrally (not at the polling place) on Election Night. When those absentee ballots have been counted the numbers will be updated.”
Here’s a portion of the day 11 spreadsheet to show how city wards appear. They show deficits for each candidate because absentee ballots have not been reported to the state yet:
Some of the City of Milwaukee wards as they appeared on December 11 in the Wisconsin Election Commission spreadsheet for day 11. They are still showing deficits for each candidate because absentee ballots are not yet included in the tallies.
Some on Twitter were taking note of the missing Milwaukee returns.
Why do the #WIRecount results leave out Milwaukee absentee ballots? twitter.com/katcapps/statu…
Day 11 - WI Election recount totals & final estimate, inc. yet to be counted Milwaukee absentees #WIRecount #wisconsinrecount#Recount2016
The state set a deadline of December 12 for counties to complete their recounts. The state must certify its returns by December 13. The Electoral College meets on December 19.
The December 11 spreadsheet shows that, in addition to the City of Milwaukee, only these precincts have not yet been reported to the state:
Clark County – ward 8 in the City of Stanley. (But this ward only listed 2 votes during the original count, one for Trump and one for Clinton).
Dane County – 5 wards in the City of Verona. (Trump received 371 and 563 votes in the first precinct and Clinton received 801 and 1,455 votes.) Dane County told local news stations that it had completed its recount, and the Election Commission retweeted one of those accounts. However, these wards are still not listed in the day 11 spreadsheet.
Per @samcdonell, Dane County has finished #WIRecount. #news3
Milwaukee County – wards 3-9 in the City of Glendale. (Trump received 429 votes and Clinton received 852 in these wards in the original count).
City of Milwaukee – still not updated with absentee ballots, according to the Election Commission. The returns appear in the spreadsheet but they still show deficits because they are not complete.
Monroe County – City of Sparta and City of Tomah wards. (In City of Sparta wards 7-12, Trump had 700 votes and Clinton had 616 in the original count. In City of Tomah wards 1-6, Trump had 627 votes and Clinton had 465. In City of Tomah Wards 7-11, Trump had 759 votes and Clinton had 517. In City of Tomah wards 12-16, 18, Trump had 691 votes and Clinton had 507 in the original count.)
Portage County – Town of Carson. (Trump had 493 and Clinton had 292 votes in the original count.)
Racine County – City of Racine ward 36 (Trump had 164 votes and Clinton had 415 in the original vote count.)
Dane County completed its recounted returns late on Saturday evening, said WKOW-TV. WKOW-TV said only a few changes occurred in Dane, with Clinton gaining 172 votes.
Here are Dane County's final numbers, per @samcdonell. #news3
Here is another way to look at it:
Day 11 - WI Election Recount - wards where @realDonaldTrump gained 10 or more votes #WIRecount #wisconsinrecount#Recount2016
Day 11 - WI Election Recount - wards where Clinton gained 10 or more votes #WIRecount #wisconsinrecount #Recount2016
is a Heavy contributor. She was a crime, government, and breaking news reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and reporter for the Waukesha Freeman newspaper. Her award-winning work has appeared in numerous magazine, newspaper, and online publications. She has also appeared as a crime reporter on Investigation Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Oxygen Channel. She can be reached by email at jessica.mcbride@heavy.com. December 11, 2016 5:31 pm
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