Wisconsin elections officials are reporting a nearly 40% increase in early in-person absentee voting over 2020, according to the Associated Press. Early in-person absentee voting began last Tuesday in the battleground state.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission announced that as of Friday morning, 292,702 people had voted early in-person compared with 209,665 as of the morning of Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. The total number of absentee ballots requested stood at 921,832, with 715,395 returned by mail or in-person early voters.
Voters cast about 640,100 total absentee ballots in 2008; 665,340 absentee ballots in 2012; 824,736 absentee ballots in 2016; and about 1.9 million absentee ballots in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Early in-person absentee voting continues through Sunday, Nov. 3. All absentee ballots must be received by local clerks by 8 p.m. on Election Day, Nov. 5, to count.
