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RandySF

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Fri Oct 11, 2024, 04:56 PM Oct 11

Nearly 200K absentee ballots returned with just more than 2 weeks before presidential election

More than 199,000 absentee ballots for the upcoming presidential election have been returned to clerks around Wisconsin. While that represents a drop in the bucket compared with 2020 return rates, it’s higher than the total number of by-mail absentee ballots returned during the 2016 presidential contest.

As of Thursday, the Wisconsin Elections Commission reported 515,514 absentee ballots have been mailed to voters in all of the state’s 72 counties. So far, 199,206 — or nearly 36 percent — have been returned.

Dane County has seen 28,359 absentee ballots come back to clerks’ offices. Milwaukee County is a close second with nearly 28,182 ballots returned and Waukesha County has recorded nearly 17,867 absentee ballots turned in.

Amid the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, use of absentee ballots by voters exploded in Wisconsin. Elections commission data show that on Oct. 10, 2020 nearly 676,000 absentee ballots had been received by clerks, which works out to a return rate of more than 51 percent.




https://www.wpr.org/news/nearly-200k-absentee-ballots-returned-2-weeks-before-presidential-election

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Nearly 200K absentee ballots returned with just more than 2 weeks before presidential election (Original Post) RandySF Oct 11 OP
my ballot mailed and received upnatom65 Oct 11 #1

upnatom65

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1. my ballot mailed and received
Fri Oct 11, 2024, 06:12 PM
Oct 11

I mailed my ballot to Wisconsin on October 1st from Vancouver, Canada. I sent it with tracking to be sure it makes it. Tracking shows it arrived on the 10th. I was very careful to follow all the directions so they couldn't reject it

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