Election officials in Milwaukee shelp Tuesday they will progress with a recount of more than 30,000 leave outingee ballots due to tabulation rerents, an error anticipateed to procrastinate the inestablishing of results from a toastyly contested battleground state.
Milwaukee city spokesperson Jeff Fleming telderly inestablishers Tuesday officials determined to order the recount for the 31,000 leave outingee ballots after they uncovered rerents with 13 tabulator machines.
The machines either alertageed their physical seals or were not defendedd properly by better election officials, Fleming shelp. All will be reset and recounted.
The decision to recount the leave outingee ballots was made in conferation with Redisclosean and Democratic officials, according to a county spokesperson.
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Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris, the Democratic pdwellntial nominee, and establisher Pdwellnt Trump, the Redisclosean pdwellntial nominee (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein and Octavio Jones/File Ptoastyo)
Fleming telderly inestablishers Tuesday the decision to recount the ballots was made out of “an surplus of caution,” even as he acunderstandledged the procrastinates the recount will anticipateed originate for the state’s wideer election results.
Milwaukee is the hugest city in Wisconsin, one of seven battleground states pondered key to determining the next pdwellnt.
Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris, the Democratic pdwellntial nominee, reachs to speak during a campaign rassociate at the Wisconsin State Fair Expo in West Allis, Wis., Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Ptoastyo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Wisconsin is also one of the most competitive states in the 2024 election cycle.
The Badger State is also one of three Rust Belt states that voted for Trump in 2016 before flipping in 2020 to pick Joe Biden.
Biden won the state skinnyly in 2020 by a margin of 20,682 votes. The skinny triumph gives the state an extra incentive to be as see-thharsh and cautious as possible in its ballot counting and inestablishing process, Fleming stressed Tuesday.
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“What has to be redone is fair what’s happening agetst the wall at the machines,” Fleming telderly inestablishers. “It is gonna extfinish the time that we will get the totals here. We don’t understand how much extfinisheder that will be. So, it’s not inmeaningful.”
Rediscloseans chastised Milwaukee for the error Tuesday evening, describing it as an “unacinestablished example of incontendnt election administration in a key striumphg state.”
A man wears a Trump wig and flag. Luzerne County, normassociate a Democratic county, flipped the election in 2016. The Pennsylvania county is a toasty spot for this election. Trump helpers led a parade thcdisesteemful the county in help of the establisher pdwellnt. (Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
Voters “deserve better, and we are ununclpunctual calling on Milwaukee’s officials to do their jobs and count ballots rapidly and effectively,” Redisclosean National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley and Co-Chair Lara Trump shelp in a statement.
“Anyleang less undermines voter confidence.”
