There are already a lot of people who’ve voted in Wisconsin.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel yesterday said its numbers show some communities in the state have already seen half of their voters from 2016 cast a ballot. Some cities are even higher. The report says absentee voting is driving the early voting spike. Those numbers are expected to go up. Today is the first day for in-person absentee voting in the state.
The increase in absentee voting is going to come with an increase in the number of people looking to change or cancel their ballots.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission yesterday sent a letter to all of the state’s nearly two thousand local election managers reminding them of the rules for “spoiling” ballots. Voters in the state can have up to three ballots, if they make mistakes on the first two. But there are deadlines next week for canceling or changing absentee ballots, and there are rules as to how voters can cancel or change their ballots on Election Day.
The Elections Commission says with more people voting absentee, clerks should expect more problems with ballots.
