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Issues continue to crop up in

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Milwaukee's late night

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ballot counting process

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this time further delaying

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the result of the election

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for a national audience.

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Essentially, all these ballots

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are counted — I think

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Milwaukee counted about 28,000

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by the end of the night.

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And then the last step

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before you send results

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to the county is you need to

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extract those results from

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the tabulators that

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count all the ballots.

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So on Election Day

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there were nine tabulators

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and typically

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an election official goes to

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each tabulator and they

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follow a checklist

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or at least they had in the past

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in Milwaukee.

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It takes about 10 minutes

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per tabulator.

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It adds a lot of time

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at the end of the night

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but it also ensures uniformity.

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And what we saw on Tuesday was

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took about 10 minutes to

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download results from

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the first tabulator

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took maybe 5 or 6 minutes

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from the second

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and then all of a sudden

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it was taking 2 to 3 minutes

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to download results

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from the tabulator.

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It wasn't just

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one election official doing it.

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They were dividing up

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into teams.

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So it went from

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what I had gotten used to

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as a somewhat of a

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slow, tedious process

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it got really quick

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and in hindsight

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it just simply takes

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more than 2 or 3 minutes

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to download results

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from a tabulator.

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The reason that it went from

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10 minutes to 3 minutes

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was they were

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clicking the wrong button.

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They were not downloading

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election results from

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five of the nine tabulators

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at the city absentee ballot

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processing center.