MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - About 76 percent of Wisconsin counties have certified results for the November 3 election.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission reported Thursday morning that 55 of the state’s 72 counties have submitted their certified results.
Certification happens through a canvas process, essentially when election officials double check their vote counts.
“They’re looking to see that they have the same number of ballots issued as voter signatures in the pool book and absentee requests. This is also a check to make sure everyone was registered to vote,” said WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe.
State elections officials anticipate all counties will report their results by the Nov. 17 deadline.
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Brown County continues to canvass their election results. Milwaukee County is also still working to certify.
“We have our canvasser representing the Republican Party, we have our canvasser representing the Democratic Party and then my staff,” said Sandy Juno, Brown County Clerk.
Juno described the process to Action 2 News reporter Brittany Schmidt.
“We’re looking at the poll lists and we’re looking at the tapes from tabulation equipment,” said Juno. “For the most part, one has the tape that came off the tabulation and the other one has the report of the totals that we have reported as unofficial results. And what we’re going through now is to make sure that the numbers agree.”
Juno told Action 2 News that she’s unaware of any instances of voter fraud in Brown County.
Wolfe says vote counts can change slightly during the canvas process because of human error or the number of provisional ballots, which are used to record a vote when a person’s eligibility must be resolved for it to count.
“It’s unusual to see anything of significance I will say, during the canvass process, and no we have not heard of any significant changes," said Wolfe.
The biggest discrepancy Action 2 News has found in our viewing area is President Trump’s vote total in Shawano County - which dropped from an unofficial total of 15,447 votes to a certified total of 15,173.
That 274 drop in votes is because a typo was made when entering unofficial results according to the Shawano County clerk’s office, and therefore needed to be corrected.
“This is what canvas is for, this is why we canvas. This is why we triple check the numbers, is to make sure we get every last one right," said Wolfe. "That’s what canvas is for, that’s when you want to find these errors so that you can correct them before results are certified.”
All unofficial and official vote totals for each county is made publicly available.
Every step of the election is transparent. There’s nothing that happens that is not transparent, that’s not public data that you can’t have access to," said Wolfe. “So I think voters really should have a great deal of confidence in the process.”
Once all counties have submitted their certified totals the state will conduct another canvas, as a kind of triple check. The state’s deadline to produce the official count is Dec. 1, unless there is a recount.
The Associated Press and major news networks called Wisconsin for Democrat Joe Biden, who is up by 20,427 votes. That’s 0.62 percent and within the 1 percent margin for a candidate to request a recount.
President Donald Trump’s campaign have announced intentions to ask for a recount in Wisconsin. Trump must wait until the election is certified in the state and then has one day to request a recount.
“Wisconsin’s election was conducted according to law and in the open,” said Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe. “While the results are still unofficial and are currently being triple checked as part of the canvass and certification process, we have not seen any credible information to cast any doubt on those unofficial results.”
President Trump would have to prepay the estimated cost of the recount upon his request.
“Because of statements from the president’s campaign and the tight deadlines, our staff is actively planning for a recount,” said Wolfe. “We will also be coordinating with Wisconsin’s 72 county clerks, who will have the primary responsibility for conducting the recounts.”
In 2016, Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein requested a recount in Wisconsin. The effort was joined by Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who lost the state to Donald Trump. After the recount, Trump gained 131 votes. He defeated Clinton by about 23,000 votes in Wisconsin. The margin is similar to the Biden-Trump race.
Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has directed the Committee on Campaigns and Elections to investigate the results for potential fraud. Vos told our Milwaukee partner station WISN that it’s unlikely those findings will change the outcome of the race.
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