Wisconsin’s Elections Commission Director Meagan Wolf says all of the ballots in the state have been counted.
“All of the ballots have indeed been counted. The ballots are back from the local precincts, they’ve counted the election-day votes. And every ballot that arrived by 8PM yesterday was counted at the essential count facility or the polling place yesterday."
“We’re not seeing that there’s any counties that haven’t posted their results on their websites.”
President Donald Trump and Joe Biden were locked early Wednesday in a razor-thin race in Wisconsin as vote-counting stretched into the predawn hours and the nation’s eyes turned to the same Midwestern battlegrounds that decided the election four years ago.
With nearly all votes counted, Biden had a lead of less than three-tenths of a percentage point over Trump, a margin narrow enough to allow Trump to request a recount if it stands.
More than 1.9 million people voted early, either by mail or in person, because of the coronavirus pandemic. That flood of ballots extended the counting past 4 a.m. Wednesday. Those ballots take longer than a regular ballot to process, and the counting could not begin until the polls opened Tuesday, delaying the reporting of results.
After totals from the city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County were added, Biden was ahead of Trump by fewer than 8,000 votes out of nearly 3.2 million cast.
Trump led earlier in the night, fueled by in-person voting results, but the 169,000 outstanding ballots from Milwaukee and ballots from other cities broke heavily for Biden. There were still a few thousand other votes waiting to be counted, primarily from the city of Green Bay.
Video from WITI-TV in Milwaukee shows a woman carrying papers into a police car. Local media reports she is a Milwaukee city official and was delivering the vote totals to county officials so they could be added to the state vote totals.
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