1368 0 obj <> endobj And three are Sunbelt battlegrounds where Trump’s 2016 margins were a little bigger: Arizona, Florida and North Carolina. They represent 101 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House. Earlier this year, California Republicans sued Gov. The state GOP defended the boxes on Twitter after election officials condemned them on Sunday, revealing how the party is undermining legal get-out-the-vote activities. 2012: Mitt Romney won the Green Bay media market by 4 points and roughly 22,000 votes. It doesn't take thousands of workers to hold an election, it takes thousands of heroes. If you need to make an appointment at a branch office, use this online form OR call 1-888-SOS-MICH (767-6424). Trump was deeply unpopular among Republican voters here in the 2016 Wisconsin presidential primary, losing badly to Ted Cruz. Wisconsin is Trump country, demographically speaking. 2012-16 shift toward Republicans: 14 points and almost 80,000 votes. 2012-16: Swing away from the Democrats: 2 points and roughly 27,000 votes. Federal prosecutors have similarly decided against bringing criminal charges against Mrs. Clinton in the matter. But Trump is also far more popular with Republican voters as president than he was during the 2016 campaign. The Bureau of Elections currently has limited hours. 'Pivotal moment': Man admits firing shot that preceded Kyle Rittenhouse shooting Six states above all others have emerged as the top electoral prizes in the 2020 race for president. He did not make clear if the emails were previously deleted, however. If you need to make an appointment at a branch office, use this online form OR call 1-888-SOS-MICH (767-6424). Patricia McKnight, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. If there’s one thing to know about this swingy region, known for geological reasons as the “Driftless Area” because it was never flattened by glaciers, it’s this: more than half its cities, towns and villages voted for both Barack Obama in 2012 and Trump in 2016. 2016: Trump won the district by 4 points and over 16,000 votes. “A lot of people who have come on board and are fired up for Donald Trump were people in the past who didn’t vote (but) they did come out and vote for him last time. %PDF-1.6 %���� Visit your state election office website to find out whether they offer early voting. Democrats have lost ground here over the past decade, not just in small towns but in growing suburbs. While some think vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris could help boost turnout in a city that is roughly 40% Black and almost 20% Hispanic, Moore said it’s about the ground game. “We are sending guidance to all political parties reminding them of the rules as it pertains to official ballot drop boxes. But as red as they are, these overwhelmingly white counties aren’t generating GOP landslides as big as they used to. But what's unpredictable: Democratic turnout in the city of Milwaukee, which generates close to 10% of the statewide vote. Does Trump stay as strong as he was in ’16? “We’ve got the emails. The Secretary of State’s Bureau of Election has a wide variety of responsibilities in administering elections in New Mexico. Western Wisconsin typically sees the biggest election swings, said Democratic pollster Paul Maslin. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Secretary of State Alex Padilla said Monday that they have sent cease-and-desist letters to the state Republican Party and county Republican organizations to immediately remove the fake drop boxes in Los Angeles, Orange and Fresno counties. The Bureau of Elections now has an Ombudsperson for Accessible Elections to respond to and assist individuals with disabilities attempting to vote. The Secretary of State's Elections Division provides assistance and advice to election officials on the proper conduct of elections. If you have in-person business to conduct with the Bureau, please call 517-335-3234 to make an appointment. Mr. Pompeo, a former Republican congressman, was responding specifically to remarks Mr. Trump made recently about emails stored on a private server Mrs. Clinton used while secretary of state. . Or does he slide there, like we saw in 2016 down in the Milwaukee suburbs?”. If the region's mostly rural river counties swing back at all in 2020 and Biden turns out the vote in Democratic cities such as La Crosse and Eau Claire, he has a chance to turn this area blue again. Queensland’s 2020 general election voting period is from Monday, 19 October to election day on Saturday, 31 October 2020. 2016: Trump won it by almost 18 points and about 100,000 votes. Sagging Milwaukee turnout contributed to Clinton’s defeat in 2016. and View Comments, Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / Manage Newsletters. The district’s 228 Obama-Trump communities are a key window into Wisconsin because four years ago they saw some of the biggest electoral shifts in the country. My guess is it is largely suburbanites,” said Schultz, who notes that the northern tip of this district includes outer suburbs of Minnesota’s Twin Cities where Republicans have lost ground recently. “Four years ago, I was begging for money, begging for help, begging people not to take Milwaukee for granted,” Moore said in a recent interview. The question is — who is he losing in order to get that base out to vote? “Actually, I’m not happy about him for that.”, “She deleted 33,000 emails. The first unofficial boxes were spotted in Southern California, according to the. Trump later won the WOW counties by a combined 28 points against Clinton, but that was smaller than Romney’s margin against Obama and far smaller than the margins GOP Gov. While Biden has consistently led in polling in Wisconsin, his campaign faces questions, too. These aren’t the only battlegrounds in 2020. Milwaukee has historically been a huge part of the Democratic Party’s early vote operation. Read headlines covering the presidential debates, results, and more. California’s attorney general and secretary of state told Republicans on Monday to knock it off after election officials reported that the state party had been breaking the law by placing makeshift, unauthorized ballot dropoff boxes around the state and falsely labeling them “official.”, Following reports of the mysterious ballot collection boxes on Sunday, the chief of California’s elections division released a statement saying “the use of unauthorized, non-official vote-by-mail ballot drop boxes does not comply with state law governing ballot collection activities.”. Just 19 counties in the U.S. have voted for every winning president since 1980, and two of them are in this district. Milwaukee Congresswoman Gwen Moore once said the get-out-the-vote effort in the city four years ago was like “watching the tumbleweeds roll down the street.”. - If you have in-person business to conduct with the Bureau, please call 517-335-3234 to make an appointment. Sometimes circumstances make it hard or impossible for you to vote on Election Day. “Everybody is always hyper-focused on the Milwaukee suburbs,” said Mark Graul, a Green Bay consultant who ran George W. Bush’s re-election race in Wisconsin in 2004. This fall, surging caseloads made Wisconsin the nation's Covid-19 hotspot, putting it at the center of both the campaign and the pandemic. Overall turnout in the city was down 14%, and the decline was far bigger in majority-Black wards. In a manufacturing-rich area, the decline of unions has played a role in that. Whoever wins, the political divide between cities and rural areas that widened four years ago is likely to grow even bigger this time, with a politically diverse collection of suburbs in Wisconsin potentially tipping the balance. Trump Is Wrong — It's Safe. In 2016, Wisconsin was the “tipping point state,” the one that mathematically put Trump over the top in the Electoral College. The Bureau of Elections currently has limited hours. For your voice to be heard, in most states you must register before you can vote. Visit your state’s election office website for state-wide voting guidance. Two years later, in the 2018 midterms, some Obama-Trump communities continued to trend Republican, while others swung back toward the Democrats — as did the region as a whole. Click She should be in jail for that,” Mr. Trump added Friday afternoon on “The Rush Limbaugh Show.”. The previous Assembly was dissolved on 30 July 2020. The cease-and-desist letter, a copy of which HuffPost obtained, requires the state Republican Party to arrange with the attorney general’s office to provide county elections officials with the names, addresses and birth date information of voters who had already dropped off their ballot in the unofficial drop boxes by Thursday. I Help Oversee All-Mail Elections In A County Of Millions. As Goren notes, Johnson won’t be on the ballot this time. The 16-county Green Bay TV market saw more presidential ads between April and October than any place in the country other than Phoenix and Tampa. But your state may let you vote during a designated early voting period. Part of HuffPost Politics. The Elections Division is open for curbside service. Milwaukee resident Jennifer Taff holds a sign as she waits in line to vote at Washington High School in Milwaukee in Wisconsin's April election, the... Milwaukee resident Jennifer Taff holds a sign as she waits in line to vote at Washington High School in Milwaukee in Wisconsin's April election, the first major election in the US at that point in the pandemic. After mustering only five polling places in the state’s April election as the coronavirus crisis mounted, the city plans more than 170 this time. The 2020 Sabah state election took place on 26 September 2020. 2012: Romney won the WOW counties by 35 points and more than 132,000 votes. In the pandemic, city election officials expect 60% to 70% of Milwaukee voters to cast their ballots without going to the polls on election day — a higher number than expected statewide. If you have in-person business to conduct with the Bureau, please call 517-335-3234 to make an appointment. Take thousands of heroes vote-by-mail Collection boxes with the Bureau, please call ( )..., which was codified into law in 2016 the top electoral prizes in the 2016 Wisconsin primary... 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