About 30,000 Milwaukee absentee ballots to be retabulated after human error
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Your Email Address Privacy Notice About 30,000 Milwaukee absentee ballots to be retabulated after human error About 30,000 absentee ballots will be retabulated in Milwaukee, potentially leading to a delay in election results, according to city officials.Officials said that the doors for 13 tabulator machines were not closed properly at the city's central count at the Baird Center."We are going to zero them all out again, 13 machines around, and then rerun the ballots that had already been processed," said Jeff Fleming at the Milwaukee mayor's office. "It is going to extend the time that we will get the totals. We don't know how much longer." Fleming said it was a human error."We don't want any questions about the accuracy about the results," said Fleming. "We're going to make sure that they are run correctly."City officials said they began counting ballots just before 9 a.m.About 30,000 absentee ballots will be retabulated in Milwaukee, potentially leading to a delay in election results, according to city officials.
Officials said that the doors for 13 tabulator machines were not closed properly at the city's central count at the Baird Center.
"We are going to zero them all out again, 13 machines around, and then rerun the ballots that had already been processed," said Jeff Fleming at the Milwaukee mayor's office. "It is going to extend the time that we will get the totals. We don't know how much longer."
Fleming said it was a human error.
"We don't want any questions about the accuracy about the results," said Fleming. "We're going to make sure that they are run correctly."
City officials said they began counting ballots just before 9 a.m.
