Milwaukee vote totals delivered under police guard
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US President Donald Trump and Joe Biden are locked in a razor-thin race in Wisconsin as vote-counting stretched into the predawn hours. More than 1.9 million people voted early, either by mail or in person, because of the coronavirus pandemic. That flood of ballots extended the counting past 4am local time. Those ballots take longer than a regular ballot to process, and the counting could not begin until the polls opened Tuesday, delaying the reporting of results.
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