Wisconsin lost some flash drives again last night – What a mess!
Wisconsin News 2 shared the following last night:
There will be a delay in the Milwaukee voting results for the 2026 Wisconsin primary.
The city of Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Paulina Gutierrez said they discovered five of the nine flash drives brought to central count had the audit log downloaded and not the results.
“It’s a human error,” Gutierrez said.
They had to go back to the operations center at central count to redownload the results from five machines. The results will then be sent back to the Milwaukee County Courthouse to be reuploaded.
Gutierrez said nearly 15,000 ballots have yet to be counted.
When asked by WISN 12 News’ Hannah Hilyard if this was all as simple as somebody pressing the wrong button, Gutierrez said, “correct.”
At 12:08 a.m., the Associated Press is reporting 94% of Wisconsin votes have been counted with David Crowley leading Francesca Hong by over 3,000 votes for the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin Governor. Tom Tiffany won the Republican nomination for governor in Wisconsin.
Around 1:05 a.m., Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson announced the results for Milwaukee. David Crowley finished with 65,131 votes (43.04 %). Francesca Hong finished with 62,739 votes (41.46%). Therefore, Crowley finished with 2,392 more votes than Hong.
As of 1:31 a.m., the Associated Press is reporting 98% of votes in the state have been counted with David Crowley leading 312,286 votes to 308,401 votes.
NBC’s reaction to finding out 5 USB sticks in Milwaukee were MISSING RESULTS of the Election at midnight is priceless.
Steve Kornacki was speechless…
NBC’s reaction to finding out 5 USB sticks in Milwaukee were MISSING RESULTS of the Election at midnight is priceless.
Steve Kornacki was speechless… pic.twitter.com/Laix1S2CBF
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 12, 2026
And… this is not the first time this has happened in Wisconsin:
Could this be the moment where the lightbulb clicks for the “far left DSA Democrats”???
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
Is the “enemy of my enemy my friend”??? pic.twitter.com/IQGjz7qhPu
— CannCon (@canncon) August 12, 2026