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Of course, Milwaukee’s in-person voting on Election Day was seriously hampered by the closing of over 90% of its Election Day precincts. "It's been a very emotional day thinking about what the outcome of this could be," she said, holding back tears. His only option was to vote in person, so in a protective mask and Tuskegee Airmen cap he waited to vote. [17], Similar problems with poll station closures and long lines were reported in Waukesha, where only one polling station was opened for a city of 70,000, and Green Bay, where only 17 poll workers out of 270 were able to work. He blamed the Republican-controlled state legislature for the situation. With VAP at 4,573,223, this works out to 1,253,063. UPDATE: Eau Claire voter turnout in Wisconsin spring primary (WEAU) By Zach Prelutsky. The amendment is intended to provide additional rights to victims of crimes, but the language of the Wisconsin referendum was criticized by legal experts as vague and misleading.[46]. Incumbent Mayor Robert Mielke was defeated by Marathon County Supervisor Katie Rosenberg. The Milwaukee City clerk has reported that about 20,000 voters cast ballots in person, anticipating that around 80,000 absentee ballots would eventually be returned. The Democrats' preferred candidate also won re-election on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. Like Mr. Walker, Wisconsin Republicans attributed the defeat to the presidential primary raising Democratic turnout. While we wait for the election results to be released later tonight, it would be useful to predict a priori what we would expect turnout to end up being. The only major concession achieved was that absentee ballots postmarked by April 7 at 8 p.m. would be accepted until April 13. Wisconsin voters cast their ballots at Riverside High School, in Milwaukee on April 7, 2020. [14][16] The lines disproportionately affected Milwaukee's large Hispanic and African-American population; the latter had already been disproportionately afflicted with the coronavirus pandemic, forming nearly half of Wisconsin's documented cases and over half its deaths at the time the vote was conducted. 2020 Elections. This was the last primary of the 2020 Democratic nominating contest before Senator Bernie Sanders suspended his 2020 campaign. or call us at 1-617-450-2300. This is similar in magnitude to the other outlier, 2000, where turnout was 13 points below what the model predicted. The exception to this simple periodization is 2016, where the turnout level of 47% was nearly twenty points higher than the average of the 1984 – 2012 period (29%). He noted that his office received hundreds of calls from people who didn't get an absentee ballot or were concerned theirs hadn't been delivered to election officials. “Wisconsin is now in play in a big way,” he said. The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin will be held on November 3, 2020, to elect Wisconsin's delegation to the United States House of Representatives for the 117th United States Congress. [25] It has not been reported how many absentee ballots were valid. [2] In a joint statement afterwards, Wisconsin's state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald criticized Evers for attempting to postpone the election, for not calling a special session earlier, and for reversing his previous position on keeping the election date intact. As of the most recent report, thirteen incumbent assembly members have filed papers declaring that they will not run for re-election. A weekly update on music, movies, cultural trends, and education solutions. This page was last edited on 6 October 2020, at 06:48. "They decided if they can suppress the vote in Milwaukee and Madison, where you have a large minority presence, you can get people elected you want elected. If so, then turnout will be well above 1.4 million. Tens of thousands of voters who received absentee ballots had not returned them as of Tuesday, Mr. Albrecht said. Wisconsin primary disproportionately impacted minority voters In Milwaukee, where roughly 4 in 10 residents are black, voters were forced to congregate at only a handful of voting sites Tuesday. Approximately 71% of votes cast in the April election were absentee ballots, an unprecedented proportion of absentee votes in Wisconsin. As of the most recent report, seven incumbent senators have filed official papers of non-candidacy.[32]. Marquette University law professor Edward A. Fallone was eliminated in the primary election held on February 18.

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