On Election Day 2024, reports emerged that tens of thousands of absentee ballots in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, would be recounted: Those reports coincided with claims of "unsealed" tabulation machines in use in Milwaukee: While human error,

The City of Milwaukee restarted the processing about 31,000 absentee ballots after an election observer brought to officials' attention that doors covering on-off switches on some of the machines that are used to tally those votes had not been properly ...

Some 30,000 absentee ballots in Milwaukee need to be recounted, likely delaying the results in the key swing state of Wisconsin, election officials said.