The head of Wisconsin’s Election Commission expects to see the number of missing absentee ballots shrink over the next few days.
Commission administrator Meagan Wolfe told reporters yesterday that some of the gap between the number of ballots sent-out and the number of ballots returned by voters is a data entry issue.
She says clerks have not reported all of their ballots yet. Wolfe said the commission is looking into reports of ballots from Oshkosh and Appleton that were found at the Post Office. It’s not clear if those ballots were being mailed to voters, or being mailed back to the local clerks.
Here locally, our clerk chimes in after Tuesdsay’s Primary. City Clerk Carrie Riepl is hopeful to see higher voter turnout after absentee ballots are counted this week, saying the city expected at least 60-percent of voters to cast a ballot Tuesday, but only 47-percent of registered voters turned out for the Wisconsin Primary Election.
Riepl says that’s about 18-thousand votes including processed in-person and absentee ballots. Riepl says the city is working on a plan to finish counting the remaining absentee ballots before April 13th.
