65 ballots currently missing on day of final Milwaukee election recount

The final day of the Milwaukee election recount started with the official statement that 65 ballots are currently missing.

65 ballots have yet to be counted on Friday morning, Mythinformed cited while live streaming at the Wisconsin Center.

WTMJ-TV journalist Mary Jo Ola had reported Wednesday night that "just as Milwaukee County officials thought the recount would wrap [up]," the city of Milwaukee found that 65 ballots were left in a voting machine at the Milwaukee Election Commission’s warehouse.

"Those will be recounted Friday," she tweeted.

Workers had counted a majority of the total 460,000 ballots before the issue was realized. The recount tally was 65 votes short of the numbers counted on Election Night.

"We searched our reconstructive ballots, our blank ballots and we could not find them there. We went back to our warehouse and located them in the voting machine where it appears that the chief left them. We have not yet counted those ballots to ensure that they are all accounted for, but we did locate ballots in the voting machine," Milwaukee Election Commission executive director Claire Woodall-Vogg said.

It was former executive director Neil Albrecht, still a city employee, who made the discovery, FOX 6 reported.

Both President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden’s legal teams appeared alongside poll watchers, prepared for the long-awaited outcome.

This is not the first time missing ballots were uncovered this week. On the fifth day of the recount on Nov. 24, Milwaukee election workers discovered nearly 400 unopened, uncounted absentee ballots, found underneath processed ballot envelopes. The Milwaukee County Board of Canvassers unanimously agreed that those 386 ballots should be counted.