Milwaukee is at it again.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, as Wisconsin primary results were still coming in, Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Paulina Gutierrez admitted that five of the nine USB flash drives delivered from the city’s central count facility to the county contained audit logs instead of the actual election results.
“It’s a human error,” Gutierrez said. When asked by WISN 12 if it was as simple as somebody pressing the wrong button, she replied, “Correct.”
Officials were forced to return to the operations center at Central Count to re-download the correct results from five machines. Those results then had to be transported back to the Milwaukee County Courthouse for re-uploading. Gutierrez said nearly 15,000 ballots were still outstanding at the time of the admission.
Read that again: on five of the nine USB drives used in a critical election-night transfer, officials copied the wrong files.
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The news of the missing numbers even shocked MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki.
This is not the first election-night controversy involving Milwaukee, flash drives, and delayed results.
Gateway Pundit readers will remember the 2020 presidential election, when then-Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Claire Woodall-Vogg “lost” one of the flash drives containing critical absentee ballot results in the middle of the night, right as Milwaukee dumped a massive wave of ballots that helped deliver Wisconsin to Joe Biden.
Officials insisted the drive was never truly lost and that everything checked out. While in transit, Woodall-Vogg realized she forgot to bring one of the physical flash drives plugged into a tabulation machine. She allegedly called a senior staff member remaining at the facility. The employee retrieved the drive from the machine and handed it directly to a police officer, who delivered it to Woodall-Vogg.
Skeptics were not convinced, and the episode became a flashpoint in the broader debate over chain-of-custody failures in Democrat-run cities.
In 2024, Milwaukee election workers left tabulator doors unlocked and unsealed for hours while processing tens of thousands of absentee ballots.
Officials again called it “human error” and, out of “an abundance of caution,” zeroed the machines and reran more than 30,000 ballots, pushing results deep into the early morning.
Different election. Different personnel. Different procedural failure. Same city. Same late-night uncertainty.
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NBC the Only Evening Newscast to Cover Wild Wisconsin Primary
As is often the case, the Elitist Media hold stories about controversial Democrats close to the chest, either reporting at the last possible moment or not at all. Such is the case with the Wisconsin Democrat gubernatorial primary.
NBC is who broke the ice on that primary, and the travails of its frontrunner Francesca Hong. Watch that report in its entirety, as aired on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, August 11th, 2026:
This was a sort of primary roundup featuring two races: Democrat Wisconsin governor and Republican South Carolina Senate, with a clear spotlight on Wisconsin. For the most part, NBC reported it straight up.
The report was not unique in that NBC also framed the race more broadly as “moderates vs. progressives.” But correspondent Ryan Nobles opened his report by referring to WI gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong” as a “Democratic Socialist.”
Furthermore, Nobles laid out some of the wild takes that Hong has put forth, such as her past proposed abolition of the police and cancellation of Thanksgiving. The report included perspectives from both supporters and detractors alike.
This brief mention of the race on Primary Night on NBC was the sole Wisconsin mention on the Elitist Media Evening News. ABC led the newscast with weather, as is their custom, and CBS put a recall of imported beef from Argentina on A-block. As we often say: what DOESN’T get covered on the evening news is often more important than what is. In this case: the ongoing socialist hollowing out of the Democrat Party.
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