More than 30,000 ballots in Milwaukee will need to be recounted due to “human error,” local election officials said.
In Milwaukee, about 31,000 ballots will have to be recounted after a problem was reportedly discovered with the stickers on the counting machines.
“This is an unacceptable example of incompetent election administration in a key battleground state.”
Tens of thousands of early absentee and in-person ballots were allegedly affected by all 13 tabulators.
According to witty tvMilwaukee spokesman Jeff Fleming said the tallying machine was sealed, but the machine door was not properly closed. Fleming added that the issue could cause significant delays.
“It's out of an abundance of caution,” Fleming says. said. “There is no reason to believe that there were any compromises on any of the machines. But they were not fully sealed, it was human error, they were not fully sealed, so we zeroed them all out and We're going to zero out 13 machines and rerun the ballots that were already being processed.”
fleming added“The only thing we have to redo is what's happening against the wall of the car. It's going to extend the time to get the total here, but we don't know how long it will take. So it doesn't matter. ”
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley and Co-Chairman Lara Trump. statement Tuesday: “We've been monitoring slow vote-counting operations in Milwaukee all day. Our legal team now believes that vote-counting operations were conducted in unsafe conditions, forcing the city to start over and significantly extending the vote-counting schedule.” This is an unacceptable example of incompetent election administration in a key swing state: Voters deserve better, and we urge Milwaukee officials to do their job. We unequivocally call for votes to be counted quickly and effectively.”
Election workers in Milwaukee begin counting votes starting at 9 a.m. on Election Day.
Wisconsin is a battleground state. razor margin between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
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