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UPDATE: Tuesday, 12:13 p.m.
Larson has confirmed the news about him not seeking a recount,
“I do hope he is successful…he’s got to figure out how to piece together his administration, how to manage our community through the worst global, economic and health crisis in generations,” he said.
UPDATE: Tuesday, 11:39 a.m.
A report from the Journal Sentinel’s Dan Bice says that Chris Larson won’t be challenging Crowley’s win and asking for a recount.
Sources are telling me that @ChrisJLarson will **NOT** seek a recount in Milwaukee County exec’s race. That hands the victory to @DavidCrowleyWI . So ends the 2020 spring election.
— Daniel Bice (@DanielBice) April 14, 2020
UPDATE 10:40 p.m.: All votes have been tallied and the lead for David Crowley is 1,039 over Chris Larson, according to TMJ4 News. The Larson campaign has said they are weighing all options on how to proceed. They could include a recount of the ballots.
ORIGINAL POST:
In a race that has a margin of lead of just over 1,000 votes, one of the candidates for Milwaukee County Executive is declaring victory.
David Crowley shared a victory statement just before 8 p.m. Monday night.
BREAKING: David Crowley is claiming victory in the very close Milwaukee County Executive race against Chris Larson:
— 620wtmj (@620wtmj) April 14, 2020
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As of 7:56 p.m., Crowley had a lead of 0.6% on Larson – exactly 1,089 votes at the time. Three of 480 precincts still had to report.
Much of the campaigning in the race was curtailed due to coronavirus. In-person voting was drastically shrunk due to how coronavirus led to 80 to 85 percent of City of Milwaukee poll workers to decline doing their job, and Milwaukee’s election commission was forced to shrink the number of polling places from 180 to five.
