Thursday’s state Supreme Court decision regarding ballots for the November elections is putting extra stress on municipal clerks in Door and Kewaunee Counties. The Wisconsin Supreme Court voted 4-3 to halt sending out absentee ballots because of possible additions to election materials. Rapper Kanye West and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins are both in court trying to get added. Kewaunee County Clerk Jamie Annoye says the ballots have already been ordered. A reprint would cost the county another $3,000 plus additional time and money spent reproofing the ballot and recalibrating voting machines. She says without a quick decision from the courts on whether West and Hawkins should be added, it is unlikely local municipal clerks will have their ballots ready to send out for absentee voting.

Door County is sitting on $7,000 worth of ballots waiting to be sent out. Clerk Jill Lau suggests Monday could be the earliest any are able to be put in the mail even without a reprint.

Wisconsin law dictates ballots need to be mailed out by September 16th to absentee voters, which could be more than a million statewide.