MILWAUKEE, WIS - Milwaukee County will run 31,000 absentee ballots through counting machines again after “human error” left the doors of the machines unsealed during an initial count.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported:
Milwaukee’s central count location will rerun about 31,000 ballots after a “sealing” error with the tabulation machines was discovered at the downtown site, potentially delaying a final count by one to three hours, city spokesman Jeff Fleming said.
“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. “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 that the doors had not been properly closed for the tabulation machines.
Reported about the problem circulated on social media as well. Click here to read more.
NEW YORK, NY - CNN anchor Jake Tapper appeared stunned Tuesday during a live broadcast as early polling data revealed a dramatic 20-point shift among independent voters in Georgia toward former President Donald Trump compared to what President Joe Biden got in 2020.
During CNN’s “Election Night in America” coverage, Tapper seemed surprised by the results of Georgia’s exit poll centers for independent voters who now favor Trump by 11 points. These results are a dramatic reversal from the 9-point advantage Biden held four years ago.
“Independent voters, they make up 31% of the electorate, that is a slightly larger share than what they made up four years ago. Trump is winning them by 11 points in these early exit poll results, 54% to 30%,” David Chalian told Tapper. ” Jake, four years ago, Joe Biden won independent voters in Georgia when he won the state by nine points, so we’ve seen a swing of 20 points towards Trump in terms of the margin, from a nine-point advantage four years ago with independence for Biden to now an 11-point advantage with independence.” Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON — A caravan of approximately 3,000 migrants marched toward the U.S. from Mexico Tuesday as Americans took to the polls to decide their next president, according to Reuters.
The migrants reportedly carried banners reading slogans like "NO MORE MIGRANT BLOOD.” Some also carried images of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a religious symbol important to many Mexicans.
"We want U.S. authorities to see us, to see that we are people who want to work, not to harm anyone," a Honduran migrant told Reuters.
He was reportedly joined by his two children and his pregnant wife.
Another migrant reportedly said they marched to draw the attention of the presidential candidates to their struggles. Click here to read more.
OMAHA, Neb. - More than a month after a fatal crash, a woman was formally charged with the deaths of four people, including her own children, after authorities said she was driving drunk at nearly 140 miles per hour at the time of the wreck.
Rachel Bickerstaff, a 33-year-old Omaha, Nebraska, woman, cried in her wheelchair during her court appearance on Thursday.
Bickerstaff was booked into the Douglas County Jail on Wednesday after being hospitalized for weeks in Kansas with severe burns. A warrant was issued for her while she was in the hospital.
State authorities asked that Bickerstaff’s bond be set at $5 million; the judge agreed to the request and scheduled her preliminary hearing for Dec. 9. Click here to read more.
CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer was shot and killed Monday night in East Chatham, according to Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling, who said the 26-year-old officer “gave his life for this city.”
“The wounds were too great for this officer to recover,” Snelling said, who called such policework unpredictable.
“There is a family suffering right now,” Snelling said, declining to immediately release the officer’s name.
Mayor Brandon Johnson called for the city to embrace the family of the officer, who was just shy of three years of service in the department.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with this family, and as the city of Chicago , we will rise again,” Johnson said. Click here to read more.
