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begun. nats - feeding ballots thru machine hundreds of thousands of ballots going under the microscope. were going to get the job done but the clock is ticking. im here to observe the process to convince myself that it was a fair process. that s where we begin. underway one county down - 71 to go! tiny menominee county with only a few thousand residents the first to finish its recount. others - say it could be tough to make the 12 day deadline. we have team coverage tonight from municipalities across the area. let s start with ben handelman who is in milwaukee county. hillary clinton officially cut the lead by one vote up in menominee. here in milwaukee county, this today. they are just wrapping up now. day 1 - found almost no problems with the votes. it has never happened in the state of wisconsin until now. across the state each and every ballot cast in the presidential election, is being counted again. we got off to a slower start than we an green party ....
river hills. the numbers there matching perfectly with election day results. onlookers include representatives from the clinton, green, and trump campaigns. i don t know if they wanted to give money to the state of wisconsin and pay that fee. we re here anyhow. hillary clinton trails donald trump by over 22,000 votes. there is no indication the numbers have shifted very much after the recount s first day. when we get deeper into it, hopefully we don t want to find green party leaders say they are pleased with how the day went. when asked about criticism from republicans this is a waste of time and money i say wait to day 12. that s what i am saying. we just started. the last municipality to turn in their numbers tonight brown deer. recount workers say the numbers there matched election day. they ll be back at it 8 a-m tomorrow. live in milwaukee, ben meanwhile in waukesha county the counting literally just started. instead workers spent the day validating absentee ba ....
now at 10 a fox6 exclusive. prosecutors said a milwaukee mother failed to protect her 3-year-old son from deadly abuse. tonight we ve learned she died of an overdose. plus he spent time behind bars now a milwaukee police officer is up for a promotion. and it s 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 they ll 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 let s begin with ben handelman he s live in milwaukee. hillary clinton has cut into donald trump s 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 t ....
time and money. i say wait to day 12. that s 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. we re live in milwaukee county, ben handelman fox 6 news. brad thanks ben counties like ozaukee and washington have opted to hand-count the ballots. the washington county clerk argues it s 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 reprogrammi ....