Milwaukee Must Recount 31,000 Absentee Ballots Due to ‘Human Error’
Milwaukee County will run 31,000 absentee ballots through counting machines again after “human error” left the doors of the machines unsealed during an initial count.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported:
Milwaukee’s central count location will rerun about 31,000 ballots after a “sealing” error with the tabulation machines was discovered at the downtown site, potentially delaying a final count by one to three hours, city spokesman Jeff Fleming said.
“It’s just out of an abundance of caution. We have no reason to believe that there was any compromise to any of the machines,” Fleming. “But because they were not fully sealed — human error — and not fully sealed, we are going to zero them all out again … and then rerun the balance that had already been processed.”
Caroline Reinwald, a spokesperson for the Milwaukee Election Commission, said that the doors had not been properly closed for the tabulation machines.
Reported about the problem circulated on social media as well.
WOW – stickers on all 13 tabulators at Milwaukee Central Count broken!
They are going to start all over counting from the beginning! This is it citizens, this is their Georgia "waterpipe break", their 2.5 dinner break from Nov.3rd 2020 in Milwaukee.
Announcement by election… https://t.co/lUFLLVuzHw pic.twitter.com/bezAQhl4LD
— Peter Bernegger (@PeterBernegger) November 5, 2024
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