100 Wisconsin Municipalities Lack Enough Poll Workers to Offer In-Person Voting
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 -- 10:08 AM
(AP) -A new report indicates more than 100 municipalities lack enough poll workers to offer any in-person voting on Election Day.The Wisconsin Elections Commission released documents Tuesday that include findings from a survey of local clerks preparing to run Wisconsin's spring election on April 7 in the face of the coronavirus. The survey found 111 municipalities are short 671 poll workers, leaving them too-short handed to offer in-person voting at the polls. Another 126 municipalities are short 2,713 poll workers, leaving them unable to staff all their polling sites.
The municipalities are spread across the state. Eau Claire, Chippewa, Dunn, Pepin, Trempealeau and Buffalo counties are just a few of the local counties with no workers available or some polling places that are unstaffed.
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