Election officials in Milwaukee shelp Tuesday they will persist with a recount of more than 30,000 missingee ballots due to tabulation publishs, an error foreseeed to postpone the increateing of results from a toastyly contested battleground state.
Milwaukee city spokesperson Jeff Fleming telderly increateers Tuesday officials determined to order the recount for the 31,000 missingee ballots after they finded publishs with 13 tabulator machines.
The machines either increateageed their physical seals or were not safed properly by anciaccess election officials, Fleming shelp. All will be reset and recounted.
The decision to recount the missingee ballots was made in conferation with Reuncoveran and Democratic officials, according to a county spokesperson.
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Vice Plivent Kamala Harris, the Democratic plivential nominee, and createer Plivent Trump, the Reuncoveran plivential nominee (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein and Octavio Jones/File Ptoastyo)
Fleming telderly increateers Tuesday the decision to recount the ballots was made out of “an plenty of caution,” even as he acunderstandledged the postpones the recount will predicted produce for the state’s expansiveer election results.
Milwaukee is the bigst city in Wisconsin, one of seven battleground states think abouted key to determining the next plivent.
Vice Plivent Kamala Harris, the Democratic plivential nominee, get tos to speak during a campaign rpartner 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 slfinisherly in 2020 by a margin of 20,682 votes. The slfinisher triumph gives the state an extra incentive to be as clear and cautious as possible in its ballot counting and increateing process, Fleming stressed Tuesday.
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“What has to be redone is equitable what’s happening agetst the wall at the machines,” Fleming telderly increateers. “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 intransport inant.”
Reuncoverans chastised Milwaukee for the error Tuesday evening, describing it as an “unacincreateed example of incontendnt election administration in a key striumphg state.”
A man wears a Trump wig and flag. Luzerne County, normpartner a Democratic county, flipped the election in 2016. The Pennsylvania county is a toasty spot for this election. Trump helpers led a parade thcimpolite the county in help of the createer plivent. (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,” Reuncoveran National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley and Co-Chair Lara Trump shelp in a statement.
“Anyleang less undermines voter confidence.”
