Milwaukee County Finds 65 Missing Ballots in Voting Machine

After adding up totals in their recount, election officials from Milwaukee County in Wisconsin realized they were 65 ballots short-later unearthing them in a voting machine.

It is the second time election officials have found a batch of uncounted ballots in the county as part of the state's partial recount.

Milwaukee County election workers had almost completed the recount of the 460,000 ballots on Nov. 25 when they found they were 65 votes short of the numbers counted on election night, with only 23 out of an expected 88 ballots for one ward.

"We searched our reconstructive ballots, our blank ballots and we could not find them there," said Claire Woodall-Vogg, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, according to Fox6.

"We went back to our warehouse and located them in the voting machine where it appears that the chief left them. We have not yet counted those ballots to ensure that they are all accounted for, but we did locate ballots in the voting machine."

The 65 votes will be included in the count, reported TMJ4. Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson said he had no concerns about chain-of-custody issues for the ballots, which he said were cast in person and counted on Election Day.

"But the way that we discovered the error, all of the unopened ballots were on the bottom, with all of the open certificate envelopes on top. And knowing how thorough we are at central count, I have no doubt that they brought these ballots up to the table, saying that they were complete, not indicating to anyone that half of the ward was missing."

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