{"id":13545,"date":"2024-10-22T18:03:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T18:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13545"},"modified":"2024-10-22T20:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T20:14:15","slug":"305k-absentee-ballots-returned-107-drop-boxes-in-use-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13545","title":{"rendered":"305K Absentee Ballots Returned, 107 Drop Boxes in Use in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/305k-absentee-ballots-returned-107-drop-boxes-in-use-in-wisconsin\/tcsquare\/2024\/10\/22\/\">https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/305k-absentee-ballots-returned-107-drop-boxes-in-use-in-wisconsin\/tcsquare\/2024\/10\/22\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<h5>by Jon Styf<\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin has seen 305,000 absentee ballots returned heading into the final two weeks before the election.<\/p>\n<p>In-person absentee voting begins Tuesday and runs through Nov. 3 at sites throughout the state. Voters can register in person at their local municipality and need to show valid identification to receive an absentee ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for online and mail voter registration has passed.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin provides information on in-person absentee voting based upon address on its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/myvote.wi.gov\/en-us\/Vote-Absentee-In-Person\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">MyVote site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An updated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_0a80d39e-8bef-11ef-877b-e3f57dc2271c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">list of ballot drop boxes<\/a>\u00a0shows that 107 drop boxes are in use throughout the state that have been reported to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, up from 78 that were listed a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>That includes 14 in Madison, 14 in Milwaukee and seven in Racine.<\/p>\n<p>There were 500 drop boxes in use for the 2020 presidential election during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin has sent out 586,616 absentee ballots of the 593,550 requested through Friday with 305,344 already returned.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>Jon Styf is an award-winning editor and reporter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_fe027b40-8fcc-11ef-be42-ef9d77a1e20e.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Center Square<\/a> who has worked in Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan in local newsrooms over the past 20 years, working for Shaw Media, Hearst and several other companies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/305k-absentee-ballots-returned-107-drop-boxes-in-use-in-wisconsin\/tcsquare\/2024\/10\/22\/\">305K Absentee Ballots Returned, 107 Drop Boxes in Use in Wisconsin<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\">The Wisconsin Daily Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/305k-absentee-ballots-returned-107-drop-boxes-in-use-in-wisconsin\/tcsquare\/2024\/10\/22\/ by Jon Styf \u00a0 Wisconsin has seen 305,000 absentee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-daily-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13546,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545\/revisions\/13546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}