"The murky waters of election recounts and challenges in Wisconsin got a little clearer earlier this year. An appeals court ruling upholding a Rock County supervisor’s 3-vote electoral victory ruled in March that absentee ballots cannot be thrown out just because a clerk forgot to initial them. While the ruling doesn’t break any significant new legal ground, it “should provide added clarity for future recounts,” Robert Yablon, a professor at the UW-Madison Law School, wrote in an email to The Badger Project."