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.

As of 4:!0 a.m., about 108,000 absentee ballot results from Milwaukee were still being uploaded at the Milwaukee County Courthouse.

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson raised concerns about the 31,000 absentee ballots the City of Milwaukee said it began recounting Tuesday afternoon after election officials were made aware that doors covering on-off switches on some of the machines used to tally those votes had not been properly closed.

On Election Day 2024, reports emerged that tens of thousands of absentee ballots in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, would be recounted: Those reports coincided with claims of "unsealed" tabulation machines in use in Milwaukee: While human error,

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.