Issues continue to crop up in
Milwaukee's late night
ballot counting process
this time further delaying
the result of the election
for a national audience.
Essentially, all these ballots
are counted — I think
Milwaukee counted about 28,000
by the end of the night.
And then the last step
before you send results
to the county is you need to
extract those results from
the tabulators that
count all the ballots.
So on Election Day
there were nine tabulators
and typically
an election official goes to
each tabulator and they
follow a checklist
or at least they had in the past
in Milwaukee.
It takes about 10 minutes
per tabulator.
It adds a lot of time
at the end of the night
but it also ensures uniformity.
And what we saw on Tuesday was
took about 10 minutes to
download results from
the first tabulator
took maybe 5 or 6 minutes
from the second
and then all of a sudden
it was taking 2 to 3 minutes
to download results
from the tabulator.
It wasn't just
one election official doing it.
They were dividing up
into teams.
So it went from
what I had gotten used to
as a somewhat of a
slow, tedious process
it got really quick
and in hindsight
it just simply takes
more than 2 or 3 minutes
to download results
from a tabulator.
The reason that it went from
10 minutes to 3 minutes
was they were
clicking the wrong button.
They were not downloading
election results from
five of the nine tabulators
at the city absentee ballot
processing center.