RNC Hammers Milwaukee Over ‘Insecure’ Ballot Counting, Delays in Vote Counting

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The battleground state of Wisconsin and the city of Milwaukee are still having ballot-counting issues, but the GOP appears to be watching it closely.

On Tuesday, the Republican National Committee (RNC) hammered the city of Milwaukee over slow ballot counting. The RNC Chairman Michael Whatley and Co-Chair Lara Trump, in an emailed release, stated:

Throughout the day we have been monitoring slow ballot counting in Milwaukee. Now, our legal team has learned that the counting took place in insecure conditions and the city now has to start over, wildly extending the counting timeline. This is an unacceptable example of incompetent election administration in a key swing state: voters deserve better and we are unambiguously calling on Milwaukee’s officials to do their jobs and count ballots quickly and effectively. Anything less undermines voter confidence.

The issue’s origin would appear to have been a voting tabulation machine that was unsealed:

Milwaukee will rerun about 31,000 absentee ballots after a “sealing” error with the tabulation machines was discovered at the downtown central count 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 said. “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 the doors had not been properly closed on the tabulation machines. […]

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