Milwaukee's Central Count gets ready for Midterm Election
Nov 3, 2026
In just hours, polls in Wisconsin will open, and you will decide.
At stake, control of the governor's mansion,
the state legislature, and Washington.
And once again, how quickly winners are announced will likely depend
on what happens inside Milwaukee's central count.
Christina Van Zels filed this report earlier, looking at the process.
10 pods, 10 machines and 130 workers.
This is a look at Milwaukee's central count. These are pods.
All of the tabulating machines are aligned here in the middle.
You've got pods one through 10 on one side. I'm sorry,
one through five on one end and then six through 10 on the other.
The red carts are the carts that actually have the uncounted ballots.
They are secured under padlock. Milwaukee Police Department will
be here for 24 hours straight until we arrive.
And then we will confirm the seals
that are on the locks to ensure that they haven't
Been tampered with Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director
Paulina Gutierrez says counting can take more than 15 hours.
I don't think that what's going to be a super late night. You know,
I hope I hope before 1 a.m. But, you know, of course, we count.
But then we still have an hour or two of the download process,
plus the transition transportation of those results.
And then the results have to be uploaded.
During the primary, there was nearly a two hour delay. Central count
workers accidentally downloaded tabulator audit logs instead of actual.
We have visual images available, we'll do the point and call,
we'll actually offer the public,
we have some laminated copies so people can follow through the process,
and I don't anticipate any issues with that.
And that was Christina Van Zeltz reporting.
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