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 closed,

Election officials in Milwaukee are recounting more than 30,000 absentee ballots because doors on the ballot tabulators were not properly sealed. The recounting was being done “out of an abundance of caution,