As of 7:30 this morning, state election officials report that more than 1,771,000 Wisconsinites have already cast their ballots in next week’s election. About eighty percent of those ballots were cast through the mail, while about twenty percent were cast through in-person early voting. But sending absentee ballots through the mail takes time, and ballots […]
Wisconsin Elections Commission Votes to Mail Absentee Ballot Applicati...
Photo from Element5 Digital on Unsplash. Yesterday the Wisconsin Elections Commission voted unanimously to send absentee ballot applications out to 2.7 million registered voters across Wisconsin. The mailing would not include the over half a million registered voters who already request absentee ballots. Nor would it include more than 150,000 on the “movers list,” […]
Wisconsin Elections Commission delays vote on new absentee ballot meas...
Yesterday, state election officials punted a vote on whether to mail absentee ballot applications to millions of Wisconsin voters, among a number of proposals to plan for the primary in August and the fall election in November. The proposal would spend $2.1 million of federal CARES aid to mail absentee ballot applications to registered voters […]
A Difficult Choice: Democracy or Health
Kelli Larson works for the State of Wisconsin as a tax analyst. Yesterday, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Larson served as a poll worker for the first time. According to the Madison Clerk’s Office, the city had about 1,400 workers show up yesterday, while more than 1,700 decided not to work due to […]
Wisconsin National Guard Members to Work at Poll Sites
Due to the ongoing outbreak of novel coronavirus, fourteen states and one U.S. territory have made changes to their upcoming elections, either switching to mail-only voting or postponing them entirely. Wisconsin is not among them. The state Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee have sued the state to postpone the upcoming April 7th election, […]
State Commission Deadlocked on Elections Motion
The Wisconsin Elections Commission is undecided about whether or not next week’s presidential primary should take place as scheduled. Earlier today, the Commission failed to pass a proposal from Commissioner Chair Dean Knudson that would have had the Commission tell a federal court it doesn’t think the election should be moved. Three Commissioners appointed by […]
