During a breakdown on when election watchers can expect to get a feel for who will win Tuesday’s presidential election, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough expressed surprise and dismay that the battleground state of Wisconsin will be dragging its feet.
In particular, the municipality of Milwaukee has a local policy of waiting until the wee hours of the next morning to tabulate ballots that were collected prior to election day .
Standing at his big board, MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki explained, “There is one twist in Wisconsin we might as well flag right now. The city of Milwaukee –– there aren’t many in Wisconsin that do this –– it takes all of its early votes, and we are talking 100,000 ballots –– maybe more, takes all of it to a separate location, counts it at the very end of the night. This is usually 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning.”
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“Oh come on! Come on. What?” Scarborough exclaimed. “Who would think of this. Steve, who would think of this? You look at what Florida does. I mean, Florida counts the early votes early and we know by 8:30, 9:00 usually who is going to win that state, except for 2000.”