While human error, not machine error, was the cause of this issue, the Milwaukee Election Commission confirmed the state would recount absentee ballots that had been run at its Central Count center. The move was being made, WTMJ reported, in an "overabundance of caution."

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.