Waukesha County leads Wisconsin in early vote
So far, Waukesha County, which is home to conservative Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel, leads the state in early, in-person votes with 32,330 tallied as of Tuesday. That marks a nearly 95 percent increase over the 16,592 who did at the same time in 2023. Waukesha’s early vote total works out to just more than 16 percent of early ballots tallied across Wisconsin so far.
City of Waukesha interim-clerk Linda Gourdoux told WPR her office has been “outrageously busy” compared to the February primary election. She said her office has been getting about 100 to 125 requests for mailed absentee ballots each day, though that’s dropped off some with election day around the corner. Gourdoux said about 77 percent of all absentee ballots requested so far have been returned.
“It makes you feel justified as the clerk’s office because absentee ballots are extremely time consuming to get out,” Gourdoux said. “There’s a lot of hand work involved to get one mail ballot out the door. So, the fact that they’re coming back in a really quick, efficient manner makes you feel better about all the time and energy that goes into getting them out the door.”
Milwaukee County was close behind with 32,149 early, in-person ballots as of Tuesday, which represented an increase of about 82 percent over numbers from two years ago. About 16 percent of all early votes in Wisconsin have come from Milwaukee County.
Dane County, which is home to liberal Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford, is reporting 31,465 early votes, which marks an 85 percent increase over the 17,016 early, in-person ballots collected at the same point in 2023. Dane County’s numbers also represented about 16 percent of all early votes cast in Wisconsin one week out from the April 1 election.
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