Poll workers at area voting sites did their part to make the election go smoothly. By splitting voters up by their last name, Sturgeon Bay City Clerk Stephanie Reinhardt said Tuesday morning they were able to keep the lines moving at a quick pace while a dedicated poll worker handled the cleaning. Other poll workers were specifically assigned to processing absentee ballots, which Reinhardt says represents about 57 percent of the city’s registered voters. That gave her confidence that they were on pace to get everything finished shortly after the last voter cast their ballot. 

Over 20,200 votes were cast in Door County while approximately 12,000 ballots were collected in Kewaunee County. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported on Monday that over 1.8 million absentee ballots had been cast, which represents 63 percent of the state’s total vote in the last presidential election. Absentee ballots had to be received by Tuesday in order to be counted after the U.S. Supreme Court denied an attempt at an extension last month.

Story updated at 8:00 a.m. 11/4/2020