Unprecedented turnout led to ballot shortages in Wisconsin's largest city Tuesday as voters cast ballots in "historic" numbers to decide a Supreme Court race pitting one candidate backed by President Donald Trump against another aligned with Democrats. The race for control of the court, which became a proxy battle for the nation's political fights, broke records for spending and was poised to be the highest-turnout Wisconsin Supreme Court election ever. Republicans including Trump and the world's wealthiest person, Elon Musk, lined up behind Brad Schimel, a former state attorney general. Democrats including former President Barack Obama and billionaire megadonor George Soros backed Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge who led legal fights to protect union power, abortion rights and to oppose voter ID.
... Unprecedented turnout led to ballot shortages in Wisconsin's largest city Tuesday as voters cast ballots in "historic" numbers to decide a Supreme Court race pitting one candidate backed by President Donald Trump against another aligned with Democrats. ...
Excellent about the historically high turn-out.
From the cited article ...
... Early voting was more than 50% ahead of levels seen in the state's Supreme Court race two years ago, when majority control was also at stake. ...
My first question was ... were the voters able to vote?
I found this ...
Milwaukee voters urged to stay in line amid ballot shortages
www.wisn.com
... Milwaukee election officials report ballot shortages at 7 polling locations during spring election but urge voters to stay in line, promising everyone a chance to vote by 8 p.m ...
Hopefully, the election officials will be able to provide water for those waiting in line.
Oh, wait ...
"The State doesn't send ballots to the counties/cities, they all have local elections as well."
Doesn't the state set and control their budgets? It looks like they do: www.pewtrusts.org
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