Milwaukee rerunning more than 30,000 ballots over machine error

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 on Election Day, potentially delaying a final count by one to three hours, city spokesman Jeff Fleming said on Tuesday.

"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.

Before the error was discovered city officials were estimating a final count wouldn't be ready until the early morning hours.

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