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Originally Posted by Azure
So a recount means not just recounting the ballots on hand, but going from county to county and checking everything?
Sheesh.
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No, Wisconsin conducts elections on the municipal level. So the cities, towns, etc are responsible for the actual vote process on election day. Then they have to provide everything to the counties to "canvass", which is a sort of re-check, I gather, that takes a few weeks. Then the results are certified at the county level (i.e., made official). Until that has been done, there can be no recount, because the results aren't official.
So it's not going county to county to check everything, it's rather everything getting aggregated at the county office level and reviewed there, and then reported centrally.