Milwaukee election officials started over counting absentee ballots after an observer saw panel doors on tabulators weren’t properly shut.

Milwaukee's central count location will rerun about 31,000 ballots after a "sealing" error with the tabulation machines was discovered.

Some 30,000 absentee ballots in Milwaukee need to be recounted, likely delaying the results in the key swing state of Wisconsin, election officials said.

Milwaukee Election Commission says it will recount 31,000 absentee ballots after machines had an issue with the tabulator door being fully locked and sealed.

The doors on the machines that were counting the absentee ballots in Milwaukee were ajar. Sabrina Franza reports from the Wisconsin Republican Watch Party in Pewaukee.