Wisconsin update:
Early numbers show more than 5,000 people in Madison have already voted in the upcoming election. Other communities have also seen a significant increase in the number of early voters, including Sun Prairie with more than 650 early voters and Fitchburg with 170.
Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell says we may have a record on our hands if that momentum continues.
"We haven't had the ability to vote this early, I don't ever," McDonell explains.
In the past, McDonell says early voting was only offered a week or two before Election Day. However, a recent court ruling has given clerks across the state the ability to offer early voting basically whenever they want.
Many clerks decided to open up early voting last week, including Madison and Milwaukee. McDonell says almost every clerk in the state will have early voting open by the end of this week.
Election volunteers have been out in full force over the last few weeks. You may have seen them already, at the grocery store, or the local farmer's market, helping people register to vote.
Most of these booths have been organized by the League of Women Voters. Volunteers also set up a booth at UW-Madison Monday morning when the Rock the Vote bus stopped by.
Students who registered during the event can also sign up for text and email alerts with information on when and where to vote and a reminder the morning of Election Day.
Election officials are also setting up a second early voting site on campus so students will have more access to register and obtain information on voter ID. McDonell says both sites will have special printers that can print voter ID's for students who don't already have them.
"This will help the 14,000 or so out-of-state students on campus who don't have a way to vote," McDonell says.
Many students on campus have already cast their votes. UW-Madison sophomore James Menden got his vote in extra early when he submitted it last week.
A recent revelation among election officials is that voters can use their voter registration postcard as proof of residence. These postcards have been sent out to more than a million Wisconsinites. Many will receive them some time this week.
Being that the postcard is a government document with your name and address on it, officials say you can mail that postcard back with your filled out form and that will be enough to register.
http://www.wkow.com/story/33307590/2...madison-so-far
Let's go, Hillary!
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