Tuesday, April 1, 2008
3:50 PM
State elections chief says things going smoothly
Government Accountability Board Legal Counsel Kevin Kennedy said this afternoon the election was going "remarkably smooth" so far with only a handful of isolated incidents reported to the state.
Kennedy said one voter in Marquette County was irate because he was told he couldn't have a paper ballot and instead had to use a voting machine, which he didn't trust. Kennedy said the GAB's general advice if people want to vote via paper ballot is to let them do it.
In another case, a Milwaukee woman received her son's absentee ballot in the mail and brought it to the city asking what to do with it. Kennedy said the woman witnessed her son's absentee ballot and her address was listed on the outside of the envelope. The Post Office mistakenly used that address instead of the one on the front of the envelope.
Kennedy said turnout was light today but in line with his early prediction of about 20 percent. He said Milwaukee has 5,200 absentee ballots, just short of the 5,900 the city reported for the February primary.
"At this point, it's hard to gauge the figures, but I'm not hearing anyone say we're getting overwhelmed," he said.
-- By JR Ross
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