Chief Elections Official Says Wisconsin is Prepared for November Election
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020 -- 10:19 AM
(AP) -The chief elections official in the presidential battleground of Wisconsin said Tuesday that the state is prepared for the November election, despite fears over security, the coronavirus pandemic and the U.S. Postal Service’s ability to process an expected record-high number of mailed-in absentee ballots.Wisconsin elections officials have been meeting weekly with Postal Service representatives to prepare and troubleshoot for the November election, said the state’s chief elections official Meagan Wolfe. She detailed the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s preparedness report at a commission meeting Tuesday, nine weeks before the Nov. 3 election. There are concerns nationally about the Postal Service’s ability to process the expected increase in mail-in ballots given concerns about the safety of voting in person during the pandemic. In Wisconsin’s April presidential primary election, nearly 2,700 absentee ballots in Milwaukee were not sent and about 1,600 in the Fox Valley were not processed because of computer glitches and mailing problems.
Wolfe said despite weekly meetings with postal officials, the state has still not gotten an answer on what went wrong with the Postal Service, Wolfe said. Commissioner Dean Knudson said there will always be problems with entrusting a ballot to the Postal Service, no matter how much work is done to prepare.
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