Wisconsin’s DE PERE (WBAY) – Beginning on Tuesday, Wisconsin residents will have another opportunity to cast their ballots in time for the general election.
Voting officials advise that you should decide how you would vote for the Nov. 8 election now, two weeks before election day.
Every village, town and city clerk’s office in the state is required to offer in-person absentee voting, but their times may vary so check with your local clerk’s office. “We opened at 7:30 this morning.
Good attendance, I believe we’ve already had more than 120 votes, according to De Pere City Clerk Carey Danen.
The first day of in-person absentee voting in the state saw a lot of activity at De Pere City Hall during lunchtime.
“Voting at the polls is just like this.
The only difference between the absentee ballot process and the polling process is that the voter must present a photo ID and provide their name and address in order to obtain their ballot, according to Danen.
After that, the ballots are secured until election day, when they are tallied.
The same is true for mail-in absentee voting. So far, 472,000 absentee ballots were requested by voters across the state and 258,000 have been returned so far to be counted on Nov. 8.
In Brown County, a clerk’s office has received roughly 56% of the requested absentee ballots by mail.
Keep this in mind if you decide to cast your absentee ballot via mail. “Unstaffed dropboxes are not allowed per a recent court decision,” Meagan Wolfe, administrator of the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission, said.
The clerk’s office might have a staff dropbox in some communities, so you might see something similar in your municipal body that is staffed by your clerk’s office, but there won’t be freestanding dropboxes available for voters.
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Voters must return their own ballots, whether they mail them or bring them into city hall, Danen continued. However, there are some exceptions for people who have disabilities that make it impossible for them to do so. But you can’t anymore; you have to return your own ballot, as well as the ballots of your spouse and neighbours.
To get the answers to frequently asked questions on early voting, voter registration, and acceptable forms of identification, CLICK HERE.
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