Polling places across the state of Wisconsin saw record voter turnout for the spring election on Tuesday, but the Village of Sister Bay still wishes one or two more of you would have cast a ballot. Voter turnout in Door and Kewaunee counties exceeded what was seen across the state with over half of its registered voters participating in the election. Communities in northern Door County saw even more of a boost thanks to their municipal elections and referendum questions regarding Gibraltar Area Schools and Washington Island. In Sister Bay, the voter turnout was at 66 percent, with several people voting early due to the election coinciding with Gibraltar’s spring break. Despite the high voter turnout, it was not enough to decide who the Village President in Sister Bay was as the night ended with Rob Zoschke and Nate Bell locked at 256 votes apiece. For the first time in 16 years, Sister Bay Village Clerk Heidi Teich says they had to rely on a game of chance to decide that Bell would be the winner.

Thanks to a contentious race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, more than 36 percent of the voting-age population in the state voted on Tuesday. The last time it was that high was in 2011 when 34 percent of eligible voters went to the polls to choose their next Supreme Court Justice months after Scott Walker was elected governor.