High turnout on Wisconsin’s first in-person absentee voting caused the battleground state’s election system to experience system problems and lags, officials said on Tuesday.
People who spoke with local media outlets in Milwaukee on camera said they were waiting for several hours to vote on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the city of Glendale, Wisconsin, wrote on social media that high voter turnout caused “severe delays” as well as “periodic outages” on Tuesday.
Hours later, the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) revealed that the turnout caused “system lags” in the state’s WisVote program and that the issue was resolved. Some election clerks also “experienced a period of slowness” that was also resolved, it said….