Breaking: “Milwaukee calls in extra poll workers amid heavy turnout”
Posted: June 5, 2012 Filed under: 2012 elections, U.S. Politics | Tags: Milwaukee, poll workers, voter turnout, Wisconsin recall election 13 Comments
Breaking news from the All Politics Blog at JS Online:
Heavy turnout in Milwaukee led the city Election Commission to call out the reserves Tuesday.
Extra poll workers were sent to polling places at Becher Terrace, Bradley Tech High School, Keenan Health Center, Morse Middle School, Rufus King International School Middle Years Campus and Cass Street, 53rd Street, Grantosa and Parkview schools, said Sue Edman, the election commission’s executive director.
The backup workers were needed to handle long lines, partly because a significant number of new voters were registering at the polls, Edman said.
“We knew things would be busy, but we didn’t know how busy,” Edman said.
In some cases, poll workers were shifted from less-crowded polling places to busier ones, Edman said. In other cases, she used poll workers who had agreed to be on call or city administrators who had volunteered to help out, she said.
According to John Nicols on the Ed Schultz radio show, these are African American areas, and there are many first-time voters showing up.
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Exit polls will answer big questions about Wisconsin’s polarized electorate
Large turnout is usually good for Dems
Especially in Milwaukee.
Projected turnout in Madison and Dane County estimated at 88%!!!!!!
WOW!!!
Amazing!!!!!
Ooooh! Keeping my fingers crossed.
I passed a TV that was playing Fox News, and it sounded like they were trying to do some damage control, WI has not been fertile ground for Republicans, Obama is expected to win here, blagh blagh blagh.
You should see the drudge headline now:
WI EXIT POLLS: REMATCH SIMILAR TO ELECTION 2 YEARS AGO, SOURCES TELL DRUDGE… ‘5 POINT MARGIN’… DEVELOPING…
White House downplaying…
WASH POST: ‘Makeup of voters appears very close to original 2010 contest’…
VOTER SHOWDOWN: DEMS CRY FOUL…
Hundreds Report ‘Photo ID’ Issues…
400 Lawyers At The Ready…
Report: ‘119%’ Voter Turnout in Madison…
RESULTS: 9 PM ET…
EXIT POLLS: CLOSE, BUT NO ‘RECALL’
Charles Pierce: Beyond the Money, the Great Wisconsin Recall Election of 2012 Has Been the Fight Our Democracy Deserves.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/wisconsin-recall-election-day-9437303#ixzz1wwePgjTy
That’s too right!
Now they are calling for more ballots and registration forms in Milwaukee.
That’s fantastic! Thank goodness the DOJ monitors are on the scene to prevent any problems with same-day registration and language access.