Wisconsin: Wisconsin: Only a few provisional ballots out there | JSOnline

Some voters have questioned whether provisional ballots could change the thin lead Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg holds over Justice David Prosser in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Calls to a few of the state’s more populous voting jurisdictions indicate that’s unlikely.

Three provisional ballots were cast in the City of Milwaukee, according to an employee with the city’s election commission. So far, one of the three voters have provided the information needed to count the ballot. In Dane County, two voters cast provisional ballots, according to an employee in the county clerk’s office.

Wisconsin: Polls run out of ballots in Wisconsin | Fond du Lac Reporter

Voters headed to the polls after work could expect a wait. A larger-than-normal voter turnout locally and statewide has caused most polling places to run out of ballots. By the end of the night, turnout could run as high as 40 percent, said Fond du Lac City Clerk Sue Strands.

“By late afternoon, we were at 30 percent, and typically, it’s between 16 and 18 percent,” she said. In the city of Fond du Lac’s 40 wards, long lines are forming at many of the polling locations. “Voters will now have to use the handicapped accessible touch screen voting machine and there is only one at each location,” Strands said.

Wisconsin: GOP raises the stakes: Voter ID Bill Coming to Wisconsin Legislature in Dems’ Absence? | JSOnline

In a move meant to lure boycotting opposition senators back to Wisconsin, the Republican leader of the state Senate threatened Monday to force a vote soon on a bill that is abhorred by Democrats: requiring people to show an ID at the polls.

The push on the photo ID bill by Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) is the latest example of Republicans pressuring Democrats in hopes of ending the standoff over the bill on union rights. Senate Democrats disappeared to Illinois on Thursday to prevent a vote on that bill, and they’ve been there ever since.