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More than 30,000 votes in a predominantly Democratic area of ​​Wisconsin must be recounted on election night after a poll watcher found that a panel on a vote-tapping machine was improperly closed.

This error at a polling place in Milwaukee means that every mail-in ballot that has already been counted on site will have to be counted again – a time-intensive process that local media say will “go very late” and possibly drag on into Wednesday morning.

Votebeat journalist Alexander Shur reported that the problem panel protected the device's on-off switch and was supposed to be locked before the polling station opened. According to Shur's report, the error was discovered around 2 p.m. local time.

Wisconsin and its 10 electoral votes are one of seven swing states in this election, with polls showing Donald Trump and Kamala Harris running neck-and-neck there. The Midwestern state has been won by Joe Biden for four years by just 20,682 votes, meaning the late votes may decide who leads the Badger State.

The secretary of state of Nevada, another swing state, said The New York Times He fears that over 13,000 ballots will need to be counted before they are tabulated because the ballots do not match those the state has in its records.

That was much more than usual, said Francisco Aguilar Just. He added that young people were largely to blame.

“This is mainly because young people no longer have signatures these days,” says Aguilar, explaining the sudden increase in bad signatures. “And when they registered to vote as part of the automatic voter registration process, they signed a digital pad with the DMV that became their license signature.”

Most of the problematic ballots are in Clark County, home to Las Vegas, and Washoe County, home to Reno. Biden defeated Nevada four years ago by a margin of 33,596 votes. If this election is as close — or closer, as polls suggest — it could come down to the issue election to determine a winner.

“When you look at the data and realize how high it is, you get nervous,” Aguilar said.

Elsewhere in the country, Iowa also reported early Tuesday that there was a voting machine malfunction in “approximately a quarter of precincts” in Story County The Washington Post. The technical issue will require ballots to be counted by hand after polls close — a process that is sure to cause delays in a state that recent polls suggest could actually be in play for Harris.

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