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WEBVTT COMBINATION OF HUMAN ERROR, AND REALLY BAD TIMING. WE WENT THERE KNOWING IT WOULD BE CLOSE. >> ROBYN VINING CANDIDATE FOR STATE ASSEMBLY WE WENT INTO THAT NIGHT KNOWING IT WAS GOING TO BE VERY CLOSE. . DEMOCRAT ROBYN VINING, RUNNING TO REPRESENT WAUWATOSA AND BROOKFILED IN THE STATE ASSEMBLY, WATCHED THE NUMBERS CLOSELY ON ELECTION NIGH AND SHE WAS SURPRISED WHEN AT THE END OF THE NIGHT IT APPEARED THAT HER OPPONENT, FORME REPUBLICAN STATE TREASURER MATT ADAMACZYK WAS THE WINNER, BY A VERY SLIM MARGIN. >> WHEN THE COUNT WENT, I WA DOWN BY 21, IT JUST DIDN’T ADD UP FOR US. . >> BUT WHAT NO ONE KNEW UNTIL LATE WEDNESDAY, WAS THAT ALMOST A THOUSAND BALLOTS WERE MISSING FROM THE FINAL COUNT. >> WEDNESDAY WE DISCOVERED THAT OUR TOTALS DID NOT MATCH ON ELECTION NIGHT. >> HERE’S HOW IT ALL HAPPENED. AS THE POLLING PLACE AND ABSENTEE VOTE RESULTS FROM TWO WAUWATOSA WARDS WERE BEING ELECTRONICALLY TRANSFERRED TO MILWAUKEE COUNTY, THERE WAS AN ERROR IN THE POLLING PLACE TRANSFER. COUNTY ELECTION STAFF CAUGHT IT, AND DECIDED TO ZERO OUT THE TOTAL AND HAVE TOSA RE-SUBMIT THE POLLING PLACE NUMBERS. BUT NO ONE REALIZED THE ABSENTEE NUMBERS WERE ALSO DELETED. SO THE POLLING PLACE BALLO WERE RE-SUBMITTED, BUT THE ABSENTEE BALLOTS WERE NOT. >> IN BETWEEN THE TIME IN WHICH WE ZEROED THEM OUT, LET’S JU THE NEW NUMBERS CAME IN. >> NUMBERS THAT, WHEN THE MISTAKE WAS CORRECTED, FLIPP THE RACE PUTTING VINING AHEAD. >> CLEARLY NONE OF US WANTING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THIS. WE DON’T WANT SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO HAPPEN AGAIN. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE PROCESS WORKED >> YOU’VE WON THIS RACE? >> WE DO. WE ARE CONFIDENT WE HAVE WON THIS RACE. >> MATT ADAMCZYCK SENT US A STATEMENT SAYING HE WOULD WAIT FOR THE OFFICIAL CANVAS RESULTS BEFORE DECIDING WHETHER PURSUE A RECOUNT. >> AND YOU’VE LEARNED OF ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH VOTES IN THIS SAME ASSEMBLY DISTRICT? >> IN ONE WARD IN BROOKFIELD. A BALLOT MACHINE JAMME THEY KNOW 28 BALLOTS WERE NEVER COUNTED, BUT THEY DON’T KNOW WHICH ONES. SO TOMORROW THEY WILL RE-RUN THAT ENTIRE WARD THAT NUMBER IS PROBABLY NOT BIG ENOUGH TO IMPACT THE OUTCOME OF ANY

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An election night mistake in Milwaukee County identified the wrong winner in a state Assembly race.When election night finally ended, it appeared that Republican former State Treasurer Matt Matt Adamczyk had won the 14th state Assembly race in Wauwatosa and Brookfield, but now it seems the race has flipped with Democrat Robyn Vining the winner.The switch is the result of a bizarre mix-up that was a combination of human error and really bad timing. "We went into that night knowing it was going to be very close," said Vining, who watched the numbers closely on election night.She said she was surprised when at the end of the night, it appeared that her opponent, Adamaczyk was the winner by a very slim margin. "When the count went, I was down by 21. It just didn't add up for us," Vining said. But what no one knew until late Wednesday was that almost 1,000 ballots were missing from the final count. "On Wednesday, we discovered that our totals did not match on election night," Milwaukee County Election Director Julietta Henry said. Here's how it all happened. As the polling place and absentee vote results from two Wauwatosa wards were being electronically transferred to Milwaukee County, there was an error in the polling place transfer. County election staff caught it and decided to zero out the total and have Wauwatosa resubmit the polling place numbers, but no one realized the absentee numbers were also deleted.The polling place ballots were resubmitted, but the absentee ballots were not. "In between the time in which we zeroed them out, let's just say the new numbers came in," Henry said. Numbers that, when the mistake was corrected, flipped the race, putting Vining ahead.“Clearly, none of us want to be talking about this. We don't want something like this to happen again. But at the end of the day, the process worked,” Wauwatosa City Clerk Carla Ledesma said. "Do you believe you've won this race?" WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott asked Vining. "We do. We are confident we have won this race," she said. Adamczyck sent a statement saying he would wait for the official canvass results before deciding whether to pursue a recount.In the same Assembly district, one ward in Brookfield had a ballot machine jam. Election officials know 28 ballots were never counted, but they don't know which ones, so Friday they will rerun that entire ward. That number is probably not big enough to impact the outcome of any races.