Well, almost.
Update! 10:48pm The corrected numbers are below. Still unofficial.
Update! 12/15 7:13amAs you may have gathered from news reports, other blogs, and the comments section here. As the Journal Sentinel helpfully notes,
The vote-counting problem is the second gaffe for the clerk's office since October, when the office sent out sample ballots to be published in newspapers for the special election for county executive between Vrakas and County Board Chairman Jim Dwyer. They were running to replace Dan Finley, who resigned to become president of the Milwaukee Public Museum.The correct results are as follows (sorry this isn't a neat graph):
Along with both candidates' names and detailed instructions on how to complete a ballot, there was a hand-drawn solid line designating a vote for Dwyer.
Nickolaus had said the gaffe occurred when her office sent some newspapers the same sample ballots that had been marked and used to test voting machines.
TROY FULLERTON 685 votes 18.68%
DAVID E. MARLOW 318 votes 8.67%
SCOTT NEWCOMER 1,381 votes 37.65%
KENT D. WOODS 760 votes 20.72%
JACK F. PERRY . 522 votes 14.23%
Waukesha County: reporting election results almost as fast as a third world country.
