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brooklynite

(94,508 posts) Mon Nov 5, 2018, 05:46 PM Nov 2018

Wisconsin absentee voting breaks state midterm record

Source: WISC-TV

MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin has broken the state record for absentee ballots submitted during a midterm election, according to a news release from the Wisconsin Elections Commission.

With more than 547,000 absentee ballots already turned in before Election Day Tuesday, the state has overtaken the 2014 record of 374,294. That's a difference of more than 170,000 ballots.

“Absentee voting has been very strong this fall, but still trails the overall record absentee ballots set for the 2016 presidential and general election,” Wisconsin’s chief elections official, Meagan Wolfe, said. “We do not know yet whether record absentee voting for a midterm will mean higher-than-normal turnout for this election.”

In a midterm election, overall turnout typically ranges from 50 to 55 percent of the voting age population, compared to 65 to 70 percent in a presidential election.

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Wisconsin absentee voting breaks state midterm record (Original Post) brooklynite Nov 2018 OP

Let's hope there are more of us than there are of them. Seeing Walker get the boot would catbyte Nov 2018 #1

Yeah... regnaD kciN Nov 2018 #2

I agree Gregory Peccary Nov 2018 #4

Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2018 #3

Hope Wisconsin learned their lesson with re electing Scott Walker several times. FloridaBlues Nov 2018 #5

Not too well, I heard. Not sure. But good thoughts!!! LakeArenal Nov 2018 #6

He is lagging behind from what I have read just recently. He started out strong but lots of money riversedge Nov 2018 #7

Hoping for the best for Wisconsin. Tx for the update FloridaBlues Nov 2018 #9

My ballot was involved in that record turnout. sarcasmo Nov 2018 #8

catbyte

(34,375 posts)

1. Let's hope there are more of us than there are of them. Seeing Walker get the boot would

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Nov 5, 2018, 05:52 PM

Nov 2018

be as satisfying as seeing Cruz kicked to the curb.

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)

2. Yeah...

Reply to catbyte (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 5, 2018, 06:00 PM

Nov 2018

“Breaking the midterm record but not as large as in 2016” isn’t particularly comforting, considering the results two years ago (the first time WI had gone for a Republican presidential candidate since…1988?). It stands to reason that a lot of those votes in 2016 came from “highly motivated” elderly white MAGAts who would otherwise have sat it out.