BREAKING: Milwaukee to recount 30,000 ballots after tabulator issue: city officials

Around 30,000 ballots are reportedly going to need to be recounted, city officials announced in Milwaukee, Wisconsin because of a tabulator issue.

According to Fox 6, city official Jeff Fleming said that the tabulators have been sealed, however, the doors on the machines did not close the right way. The problems impacted votes that were turned in early as well as absentee ballots. 106,750 absentee ballots from the 113,311 that were issued to voters had been sent to the polling locations by Tuesday morning. 

City officials said that the recount will take hours and that 13 machines were impacted. Paulina Gutiérrez, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, instructed poll workers that each ballot will need to run through the systems again.

"We're seeing a lot of voter registration. Voter registrations are long. It's great to see that. I just want to remind voters that when you go to register to vote, you have to bring a valid photo ID and a proof of residence," Gutiérrez said while speaking to reporters. She added that there are "no concerns" and that "things are going pretty well at the polling locations."

The polls are open from 7am to 8pm in the swing state of Wisconsin. The Badger State and six others, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia are likely to be the states that decide the election results. 

The issues with the Wisconsin tabulation machines come as other voting issues have popped up in Pennsylvania as election officials have been forced to delay the deadline for voters at precincts in different locations.