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Early Voting Higher than in 2023
A lot of people voted early in Wisconsin for the spring election.
The final vote count for both mail-in and in-person early voting shows a 57% increase over the 2023 numbers.
WisPolitics reported that 644,800 people cast an early ballot in the state.
Early voting jumped in every region of the state, in fact almost every area in Wisconsin saw a nearly 50% increase in early voting.
Milwaukee and Dane Counties saw a 49% increase in early voting this year. Those are two counties where Judge Susan Crawford needs to do well in order to win a seat on the high court.
The WOW counties saw a 74% increase in early voting this year compared to the 2023 race between Dan Kelly and Janet Protasiewicz.
Both Crawford and conservative Judge Brad Schimel need to do well in those counties in order to win.
The counties where Schimel needs to do well, in western and northern Wisconsin, also saw large increases in early voting. Northern Wisconsin’s early vote numbers are up 54%. And western Wisconsin’s numbers are up 49%.
One of the reasons for the double-digit jumps is that both Republicans and Democrats in Wisconsin are embracing early voting.
Two years ago, Republicans weren’t so sure. Now, President Trump voiced ads for Brad Schimel encouraging Republicans to vote early for Schimel. He said Republicans need to make the race “too big to rig.”
It remains to be seen whether all of the early votes are a sign of more people voting than two years ago, or if the early vote increases are simply more people voting early.
It will take a while to count all of the absentee ballots.
Wisconsin Elections Commission chairwoman Ann Jacobs said Milwaukee alone has at least 48,000 early votes to process today, and count later tonight.
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