![]() ![]() ![]() 'It's gone like crazy': Madison mid-day voter turnout surpasses 2014, 2016 levelsġ1:57 a.m. Staley said normally it takes a full day to reach that kind of turnout in the city’s 73rd ward. "Elaine Staley, a chief election inspector working at the Village on Park polling place, said the South Park Street location had seen about 90 voters as of 9 a.m. The Cap Times is reporting that mid-day turnout in Madison had already surpassed the 2014 midterm and even the 2016 presidential election. Natalie Brophy Report from Madison: "It's gone like crazy." If voters are unsure if they cast a misprinted ballot and have not yet been contacted by the village, Krueger asked them to call 71. Village staff will meet with the commission once the polls close to make sure any voter who could not come back to revote today still will have his or her votes counted, Krueger said. Krueger said her staff contacted the county clerk’s office and the Wisconsin Elections Commission as soon as they realized the error. The village receives the printed ballots from the Marathon County Clerk’s office. 55 on received a correctly printed ballot. The village corrected the error and voters No. ![]() As a result of the error, the ballot machine would not accept the ballots. Krueger said the ballots did not have the correct districts listed for the state Senate and Assembly races - the right ones are the 23rd Senate District and the 69th Assembly District. Village Clerk June Krueger said her office has reached out to nearly all 54 of the voters affected, and either spoke with them or left messages explaining the issue and asking them to come recast their ballots. The village is asking them to come back and vote again. The first 54 people who cast their votes Tuesday in the Marathon County village of Stratford were given the wrong ballots. Shorewood HS students walk out on Election Day "The higher the youth turnout, the more politicians are forced to listen to what we have to say and adjust accordingly," said student Megan Grizzle. Shorewood High School is one of about 500 schools around the country to participate in the national "Walkout to Vote" movement. and held a rally on the lawn encouraging young people to vote. Shorewood students stage election day walkoutĪbout 40 Shorewood High School students, most of them too young to vote, walked out of school around 10 a.m. In District 89, the wrong ballots were issued to 71 people. In District 4, 173 voters were given the wrong ballots. He said the village quickly notified state elections officials, and logged the error, but don't believe anything can be done to correct the error. when a voter asked why a candidate for whom he planned to vote did not appear on the ballot, Haltom said. ![]() It's unclear how, or even if, the problem can be corrected.įor more than an hour after the polls opened at Green Bay Community Church on Cardinal Lane, voters living in Assembly District 4 were given ballots Assembly District 89, and vice versa, Village Clerk Chris Haltom said.Įlections workers discovered the error shortly after 8 a.m. HOWARD - More than 200 people in this Green Bay suburb voted Tuesday for an Assembly candidate in the wrong district - because they were given the wrong ballots. Voting problem in Howard: Over 200 people got ballots for wrong Assembly race Workers were still busy counting absentee ballots well into the afternoon. Voters packed the polls in Shorewood, where more than 2,100 residents had cast ballots at the Shorewood Village Center as of 2 pm. ![]()
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