County voters follow suit in state races
Democratic-endorsed candidate Jill Karofsky, running for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, pulled off an upset over Scott Walker appointee Dan Kelly, bringing progressives one seat away from the majority on that court.
Karofsky, a Dane County judge, won the April 7 race, receiving 55.3 percent of the statewide vote, over Justice Kelly. In Crawford County, she also earned the majority, receiving 2,378 votes, or 57.7 percent, while Kelly ended up with 1,741 votes.
According to CNN, Kelly was only the third sitting Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice to lose in the past 53 years.
In the presidential preference vote, results came in with Joe Biden leading the charge at 62.9 percent of the state vote count. Bernie Sanders, who bowed out of the race the day after the election, even though results weren’t official until absentee ballots were counted Monday, tallied 31.8 percent.
In Crawford, 1,626 voters cast their ballot in favor of Biden, and 713 chose Sanders.