Two weeks to tally up more than 440 thousand ballots from the president ial election again and it all begins in just an hour. We have Team Coverage this morning on the election recount for wisconsin. Jim barrett Tacoma Police department the attacks on Law Enforcement and the killing of officers must stop. Plus a Tacoma Police officer killed in the line of duty. How a standoff finally ended and what happened to the suspected gunman. Good morning and welcome back to wakeup. Time n adlib Weather Forecast forecast from fox6 chief meteorologist rob haswell a large low moves slowly off to the east and weaken today allowing us to slowly dry up but we will still see a few morning showers and snow showers. Drizzle could linger into the afternoon. As High Pressure builds into our region, we continue to dry but stay mostly cloudy for friday. A bit more sun is likely on saturday with the high over us. A new low moves in for sunday with a chance for rain and snow. Temperatures slowly return to traf
Transported from the Milwaukee County courthouse to the Election Commission warehouse. The recount effort in Milwaukee County involves more than 440thousand ballots all together. The final decision will be made this morning by the board of canvassers, the county Election Commission recommends the recount be done by machine. 14 counties will use optical scanners for the recount. Including waukesha and sheboygan counties 48 counties will recount the vote by hand. Including ozaukee, jefferson and kenosha counties. 10 will use both like walworth county. In our area, costs range from 36 thousand in sheboygan county. To more than a half million in Milwaukee County. For milwaukee co there will be a wide variance in the vote totals. I dont think were going to see a change in the outcome of the winner of the election in wisconsin. The recount results will have to be certified and completed by december 12th. The bill. Reporting in milwaukee dc fox6 news. Meanwhile, a wisconsin conservative group
Recount. Yes im making an objection to only testing one machine versus all the machines 31 Milwaukee County commissioners then decided to test all of them. One of them was broken, and had to be fixed. The objector, Mark Kowalski of greenfield, said the delay was worth it. Theres nothing like a 100 percent quality check. If youre in a factory and theres a problem, sometimes you have to check everything 13 the first city of milwake the machines just after noon. Nats feeding ballots suburban ballots, two hours later. Besides the 130 election inspectors. Representatives from the Political Parties were here to challenge absentee ballots. Some ballots didnt have the necessary signatures. There have been a couple that have been rejected because they were improperly filed 26 the county clerk says, despite the delays, he expects to finish the recount by the december 12 deadline. Im not saying its going to be no problem to complete the recount by the 11 these are suburban municipalities feeding
Time and money. I say wait to day 12. Thats what i am saying. We just started. So wrapping up here. In Waukesha County it is a different story. They spent most of the day checking the validity of absentee ballots. They are just about to start counting. They plan to work there until midnight. Were live in Milwaukee County, Ben Handelman fox 6 news. Brad thanks ben counties like ozaukee and washington have opted to handcount the ballots. The Washington County clerk argues its actually faster. She says in the past they only used one machine for recounting which she believes would have brenda says if we were using one machine which we have done in the past, it would have taken over 130 hours to feed them all through and as you can see i have two rooms of tabulators we can go through a whole municipality a whole reporting unit with all the tabulators much quicker than going through the machine. She says she could have requested more machines but believes reprogramming the database and memor
Now at 10 a fox6 exclusive. Prosecutors said a milwaukee mother failed to protect her 3yearold son from deadly abuse. Tonight weve learned she died of an overdose. Plus he spent time behind bars now a Milwaukee Police officer is up for a promotion. And its the first day of an historic event. How the recount is going across south east wisconsin. Tiny menominee county is already done with their recount. Others say theyll have a hard time meeting the deadline. Tonight we have team coverage. Brittany shannon is live in the newsroom with the latest from dodge county. But lets begin with Ben Handelman hes live in milwaukee. Hillary clinton has cut into Donald Trumps lead by 1 vote thanks to results in menominee county. Here in Milwaukee County, it was a slow start. After day 1 almost no problems re it was not a speedy kick off. We got off to a slower start than we anticipated. In milwaukee, at the request of the green party each and every ballot machine was tested taking extra hours. Eventua