Milwaukee Election Officials Blame “Human Error” After 5 of 9 USB Drives Arrive WITHOUT Election Results

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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Milwaukee says due to human error, 5 out of 9 USBs were missing election results. Oops! pic.twitter.com/cLFRALff5p

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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.