The Wisconsin governor’s race was a nailbiter into the early morning hours on Wednesday, with incumbent Republican Scott Walker and Democrat Tony Evers trading leads of a few hundred or thousand votes several times. But around 1:00 a.m. local time a large batch of absentee votes from Milwaukee County provided Evers a slim but seemingly solid lead of 30,000 votes.
The Associated Press declared Evers the victor, as he held a 1.1-point lead over Walker with 99 percent of precincts reporting. But Walker has not yet conceded. “We need the official canvass and for military ballots to be counted before any decision can be made. Thousands of ballots were damaged and had to be recreated. Until there is a comparison of the original ballots to the recreated ballots, there is no way to judge their validity,” wrote Walker spokesman Brian Reisinger.
