No Winner Yet in Wisconsin Supreme Court Election - NYTimes.com

No Winner Yet in Wisconsin Supreme Court Election - NYTimes.com

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No Winner Yet in Wisconsin Supreme Court Election
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A contest for the Wisconsin Supreme Court that some voters viewed as a referendum on the state’s Republican leaders and their cuts to collective bargaining rights remained in a virtual tie Wednesday morning....

"Until emotions boiled over in the state capital weeks ago on questions over labor unions, public workers and budget cutting, Justice David T. Prosser, who was seen by some as part of a conservative majority on the court, had been widely expected to coast to a second 10-year term.

But election officials reported an extremely tight race as Tuesday night wore on, with a higher than expected turnout: Justice Prosser was in a dead heat with JoAnne Kloppenburg, an assistant attorney general who was not widely known through the state before this race. With all but a few of the state’s voting districts reported Wednesday morning, Ms. Kloppenburg was leading by 311 votes among more than 1.4 million cast. The leader had flipped again and again throughout the night on Tuesday."