Canvass shows Wis. incumbent Justice Prosser has won re-election

A canvass of Wisconsin county vote results shows that conservative state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser has won re-election over his liberal challenger. The results aren't yet official, and a recount is expected.

Prosser defeated state Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg by 7,316 votes out of nearly 1.5 million votes cast, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. She has until Wednesday to ask for a recount.

State election officials won't begin an official review of today's results until after an expected request by Kloppenburg.

Last week, County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced that she had failed to report a city's 14,000 votes in initial totals. The revised tally gave Prosser a lead of about 7,500 votes over Kloppenburg, who until then held a slim lead.

State election officials have announced that they will investigate vote irregularities in predominantly Republican Waukesha County stretching back at least five years.

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