Marathon County Clerk Explains Ballot Shortage

Friday, April 8th, 2022 -- 12:00 PM

(Mike Leischner, WRN) The Marathon County Clerk is explaining what happened Tuesday in two Wausau wards where poll workers ran out of ballots during Tuesday’s election.

Kim Trublood says due to the ballot shortage some voters chose to use an Express Voting machine to fill out a temporary ballot, that was then transferred over to a ballot that could be read by the tabulators through a process involving the watchful eye of two election inspectors verifying that the votes were transferred with integrity and without changing the intent of the voter.

A record of the process has been documented as well. Voter turnout for Tuesday was about 32 percent in Marathon County, or over 26 thousand two hundred votes. Additional ballots for those wards were printed as supply dwindled, but not all could be read by the tabulating machines.

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