Here's when Milwaukee reported its absentee ballot results in recent November elections

In past years, some Republicans have used the city's overnight reporting of absentee ballot results to falsely claim something was amiss in the election administration of Wisconsin's largest city.

Here's why the city's absentee ballots are reported late at night and the times the city's results have been reported in the November elections dating back to the 2018 election for governor, based on previous Journal Sentinel reporting:

Even before early in-person absentee voting began Tuesday morning, Milwaukeeans had returned 23,415 absentee ballots to the city Election Commission. That number will only grow as residents cast their absentee ballots at the city's 10 early voting locations, which will be open until Nov. 3.

Like about three-dozen other municipalities across the state, the city counts its absentee ballots at a single location known as central count and reports those results all at once.


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