More than 30,000 votes in an overwhelmingly Democratic area must be recounted on election night in Wisconsin after an election observer noticed a panel on a vote tabulating machine wasn’t properly closed. That flub, at a polling site in Milwaukee, means every absentee ballot that had already been counted at the site must be counted once again—a time-intensive process that local media says will “go very late” and may extend into Wednesday morning. Alexander Shur, a reporter at Votebeat, reported that the problem panel protected the machine’s on-off switch and was supposed to be locked before the polling site opened. The report said the error was discovered around 2 p.m. local time. Wisconsin and its 10 electoral votes is one of seven swing states this election, with polls showing Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are neck-and-neck there. The midwestern state was won by Joe Biden four years by just 20,682 votes, meaning the delayed votes just might be what determines who carries the Badger State.
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