Milwaukee plans to order more ballots for future spring elections after ballot shortage 'crisis'
Milwaukee’s top election official is planning to order one ballot per registered voter for future spring elections after some polling sites in the city ran short during the April election.
Nine polling sites in Milwaukee ran out of ballots before polls closed on April 1, while 69 of the city’s 180 polling sites experienced ballot shortages. Milwaukee Alder Milele Coggs said she and other alders were getting calls from voters on election day about problems they were facing at the polls.
“We were all trying to figure out, you know, what was going on,” Coggs said during a Thursday meeting of the Milwaukee Judiciary and Legislation Committee.
In a statement, Milwaukee Alders Andrea Pratt, Mark Chambers, Sharlen Moore and Coggs said they wanted to learn more about the shortage.
“We knew about this election for several months and we knew it would be a high interest election, so why didn’t we have enough ballots?” the statement said.
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