Infamous for delays in counting ballots, it looks like Milwaukee’s Election Day tabulation will go long into the night once again amid tabulator and ballot security problems.
Swing state Wisconsin’s most populous city will have to recount some 31,000 absentee ballots previously counted thanks to an unsealed tabulator, sources at Milwaukee’s Central Count location tell The Federalist. Each ballot must be recounted.
It’s a mess, according to Republican observers at the scene.
‘Layers of Issues’
When the day began after about an hour’s delay, observers inspected the sealed tabulator machines, a poll watcher told The Federalist. All was well at that time, the source said.
“Later one of our observers noticed that the seals (on the machines) had been broken,” the source said. They had effectively been unlocked, presenting a potential integrity breach, the observer said. Sources say about a dozen machines had apparently been compromised. By whom remained unclear as of 5:30 p.m. Milwaukee time, just 2 1/2 hours before Wisconsin’s polls close.
“We were waiting and waiting to get a count and all of a sudden they made the decision that they were going to zero out all of the wards in every machine and that they were going to re-run all of those ballots for various reasons, the most prominent being the broken seals,” the observer said.
But not all of the tabulators were up and running before 6 p.m. Milwaukee time, said the source, who sent The Federalist a photo of empty tables at Central
