A voting tabulator malfunction at a South Milwaukee polling location Tuesday morning temporarily disrupted ballot scanning, but voting continued using backup procedures, according to city officials.
South Milwaukee City Clerk Steven A. Braatz Jr. said the tabulator at the District 4 polling site at the former Grobschmidt Senior Center went down shortly after polls opened.
Election workers placed ballots into the tabulator’s auxiliary bin while a replacement machine was brought in, Braatz said. Once the backup machine was operational, those ballots were fed into the machine and counted.
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TMJ4 also spoke with a voter who said she was among the first people in line Tuesday morning when the tabulator stopped accepting ballots. She said voters were instructed to place ballots into the auxiliary bin while election workers worked to replace the machine…