Wisconsin got close to record turnout for this week’s election.
The state’s Elections Commission yesterday said 72-point-six percent of people who are eligible to vote, did vote on Tuesday. That’s just below the record turnout of 73-point-two percent in 2004. In all, the Elections Commission said, three-point-four million people voted in this year’s election. The big draw was, of course, the presidential race. The Commission says about 30 thousand fewer people voted in the state’s U.S. Senate race, and 193 thousand fewer people voted on the state citizens-only voting referendum.
Now that the election is over, and now the yard signs must go.
Wisconsin law says people have seven days from yesterday, the day after the election, to pull their political yard signs from their yards. That includes the bigger signs that are often put-up on busy streets and corners. It will be up to local authorities, however, to decide what to do if people don’t get rid of their signs quickly enough.
