La Crosse’s presidential recount ends in peculiar change in vote tally

Trump loses votes

The presidential recount in La Crosse County is over.

One candidate picked up dozens of votes that didn’t count on election night.  That candidate: independent Evan McMullin, who got 47 more write-in votes because of the recount.

He had 217 total votes, putting him in sixth place in the county.

Donald Trump lost 11 votes in the process, while Hillary Clinton saw no change. Clinton won the county by 6,000 votes.