:: BREAKING NOW: Multiple polling places across Milwaukee are running low or have run out of ballots as turnout is at record levels.

MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots.

If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.

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How do they run put of paper. America is so mivkeg mouse!!
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No longer matters! Presenting the New Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, Susan Crawford!
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And they'll find that Democrats "just didn't show up," like the presidential election. Even though we had record-shattering voter registration and Kamala's rallies were packed to the rafters.

I have zero faith in our democracy. Voting is tainted.
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💪
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How can they be running low, should be enough to cover the electorate
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Boy - surely nothing like this will happen when they force in-person voting only...
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Good!!
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They likely based their numbers off Nov 2024 attendance numbers. This means a portion of those people that showed up to vote Tuesday DIDNT vote last Nov.
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Our small town in Wisconsin had HUGE turnout! It was like a crowd like general election. Busy all day.
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Fucking ridiculous. There should be a ballot for every registered voter.
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And spares if on-the-day-registration is allowed.

Or the means to print extra ballots on site (the most sensible answer these days), or deliver extra ballots to the polling location BEFORE they run out…
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Hey Steve good to see ya here!
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A good turnout is always a good sign for democracy.
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And that's after a huge jump in early voting in Milwaukee, which is separate from this high turnout at the polls.
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Let’s pray people. We need this win!
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voter suppression tactic number 163: Provide less ballots than voters and this way nobody wil be able to vote
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That's a good sign, right?
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Don't leave now voters. It's the@gop suppression strategy.. again
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Stay In Line 🙏
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Milwaukee was voter suppression central in 2016!
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Don’t give up!
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Obviously stay in line.
But these long voter times in blue districts need a long hard look. This is by design and conservative districts never seem to have to wait long. It's just one more GOP thumb on the scale of democracy.
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That's good
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LET’S GO SUSAN CRAWFORD!!!!
All eyes on Wisconsin!!!!!!!!!!
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Come in Wisconsin
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LET'S F*****G GOOOO!!!
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Record high election turnout is NEVER good for Republicans
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Nicely done, Dems! Clearly they didn’t expect your voter turnout
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WOW!
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Great reporting
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Heard the same thing a couple of months ago. Why didn’t they learn their lesson and get more ballots? Or is it a way of suppressing votes? Because I don’t know how else to interpret that.
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It voter suppression
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California now sends a ballot to all registered voters, to be completed and returned, or for the stubborn, traded for an in-person voting experience on election day.
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I heard cars are running out of gas drlivering said ballots. 🤪 "Why would we eant to make it easier?" That is their mantra.
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🔵THE MEANING OF LIFE "SPOKEN WORD"🎬👇🏼

https://youtu.be/7d16CpWp-ok
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Let all the turnout be for Susan Crawford! Cory did his thing today on the senate floor, Now we need you Susan! Let’s Goooo, Im watching patiently from the East Coast! 💪🏽👏👏👏
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Stay in line. As in any election, if you are in line to vote before the polls officially close, they have to let you vote & your vote will be counted.

Stay in line to vote Wisconsin!

It matters & it will make a difference. ❤️
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Sounds like a slaughter going on...
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This is F*cking Ridiculous!
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Stay in line!
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Beware:

Wisconsin has votes. And they know how to use them!
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Coincidence or not? Running out of ballots in Demcratic Milwaukee?
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Aluminum should flow like water not rationed like snap benefits.
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What a sloppy voting system.
Voting needs to be compulsory like taxes and on a weekend
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That works fine here in Australia.

With way, way fewer elections though.
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I could happily replace elections with sortition properly paid like a politician
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https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-case-for-abolishing-elections/
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Im all for well paid sortition
Democracy as it is gets gamed by big money
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Repugs have always been cheaters.
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They plan that shit in St Louis how many times we have 7 machines but 2 never work. Or the machine that takes the ballot after filling in, tore them as they went in. Losing my name and sending me downtown if I wanted to vote. That was Ronald Regan's win.
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Sadly, not everyone can wait for ballots to show up, either because they’ll get fired if they’re late for work or charged more for daycare they already can’t afford if they’re late. Not having enough ballots is a classic voter suppression technique.
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True, but I hope they do it anyway.
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I hear you, I do, but I've been known to stay out way too late for lesser reasons. 😀
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Hold the line!!!
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If they are running out of ballots that means the sitting Justice should win.
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How do they keep getting away with this shit??
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How convenient. Running low on ballots in the most highly contested election. Tsk tsk
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Of course they did
Ugh
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Don’t leave !!!
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Stay in line. Your vote matters.
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Hold the line!
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Elon and the MAGAs will pay for more than votes. They will sabotage and do ANYTHING to cheat-just like the 2024 Presidential Election.
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Any idea what is happening in Green Bat where the power went out?
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Wicked shocking…
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Usually high turnouts are not good for the GOP..

Let’s see what it means this time
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Stay. In. Line. It’s worth it.
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I hope this is good news for us. 🤞
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Same kind of things that were being said about elections in nov. . . sure hope fast ones aren’t being pulled like then.
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Let me guess, running out in democratic districts?
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go away with this blueanon shit
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Because that shit doesn't happen?
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In +40D Milwaukee county? what does occam's razor tell you the likely answer is? That they underestimated turnout? Or that it's a deliberate consipracy?
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Real life observation tells me there's often voter suppression of various kinds in urban/dem districts.

Bomb threats? Remember those?

I don't know why some of y'all rail so hard against any suggestion that there is fuckery of any kind.

I suppose the well was sufficiently poisoned.
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Who is in charge of managing ballots in Wisconsin counties? Who is the secretary of state? What is the process?

You don't even know the process and yet you assume it is the same thing/process as calling in bomb threats, something anyone with a phone can do. Blueanon brain
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BTW, Kamala's book talks about the vulnerabilities in our voting systems.

But head in the sand bc we just can't sound like them.
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Virtually every Milwaukee district is a democratic one
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No doubt.
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I mean, probably yes, but not because of some conspiracy.

Milwaukee districts are small (often a dozen or so blocks only) and they don’t expect big turnout for these elections. Most of Milwaukee is “democratic districts.”

Elections are also run by the city of Milwaukee, which is pretty Dem.
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C'mon cheeseheads, do the right thing 🤞
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What the fuck is Wisconsin's problem vis-a-vis running out of ballots?

In 1998, I was poll watching for Tammy Baldwin and had a list of 30+ people who left before voting b/c the Badger Bowl polling place ran out of ballots.
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All my Wisconsin ☝️
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Why does this not surprise me?
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...a sentence that should never have to be uttered...
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I hope you don't mind, I re-posted your information that ballots were on the way to Voting Places in Wisconsin?
I used your name as the source of the news.
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This is great news.That means more people are showing up than they expected!!!
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Or it’s a Dem district & they intentionally ran out of ballots.
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Well , they said they had record turnout so...
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Progressive Democrats know Progressive Democrat Jen Psaki is literally the only Press Secretary that doesn't lie. Joe Biden's Press Secretary was telling hateful lies about Democrat Marianne Williamson. She told the entire country Republican Joe Biden is Pro-life.
https://youtu.be/kGa4vFRreUI?...
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Abortion is not federally funded. Period.

This is dumb as shit.
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Says the account that is too much of coward to show their real face.
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And that matters why?

Abortion. Is not. Federally Funded. Period.
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Democrat know abortion is medical procedure that saves the lives of women.
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Correct. That is factual.
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RHC -Let's say a woman has a natural miscarriage & she needs a DNC she doesn't get that, she'll die, it's illegal now.
Or an ectopic pregnancy( in the fallopian tube) completely unviable. The doctor would say it's not if it bursts it's when and you hemorrhage to death, that's illegal now.Health care
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Are you kidding me?!?! This only seems to happen in the cities.
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Today when I voted in IL, they actually printed a ballot for every single person. I even commented, wow- this is great so you can’t run out of ballots!
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I live in DuPage County and they've been doing that here for at least 5 years.
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We do the same in California, but those ballots are mailed to the voter, to completed and returned, or for stubborn, to trade it in on election day for an in-person voting experience.
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Wow great news!
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When suppression looks like "Whoopsie, doh, uh, my bad...'
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Love you, hometown
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What a joke of a country. Run out of ballots 😂
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everyone hates elon musk
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Really curious here, from another country. How is it they run out of ballots? Isn't there a list of registered voters, so they know the exact maximum number of voters that are allowed to vote at each station?
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The easiest explanation is turnout was higher than expected. A lot of counties don't have an infinite budget, and base how many ballots they'll need based on projected turnout + [insert extra number here].

They SHOULD theoretically have all the ballots they need, but it isn't always so simple.
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Aah, that's a feasible explanation. It just feels odd that a country built from inception on the concept of democracy would not allocate sufficient budget to print all the necessary ballots by default.

In Mexico, throughout my life, it was done this way, even with all our problems. Not sure now.
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Oh, believe me, there is a way things SHOULD be done.

But thanks to we the people shredding our own local budgets, our polling places routinely don't have the resources they need.
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This is likely very good news.
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More attempts at voter suppression.
Anyone surprised?
Anyone?
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Or…hear me out…they could just mail one to every voter and let them vote from the convenience of their kitchen. No line needed.
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I hope for all your sakes that Crawford wins - you’re up against power and money so I wish you great success
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lets go WI!
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Here we go again. Let me guess in blue districts. Any Russian bomb threats to go with?
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This is what Democracy SHOULD look like!
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I hope Muskrat's candidate gets smoked. Go cheeseheads!
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It happened at my polling place in Indiana in Nov and several booths were shut down resulting in long lines, I believe it was intentional.
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Surprise! Surprise! Milwaukee!
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I love your optimism. Fingers crossed that WI will vote blue.

But I’m also not holding my breath.
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Hopeful 🤞
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Good news. Is anyone doing anything to ensure the votes are all counted? After the admission by Trump that they manipulated the presidential election and Musk shows up in WI, it makes one very uneasy.
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holy shit that's amazing! If the DEM candidate wins in a landslide, I bet Repubs just simply try to overrule the vote to put their guy in anyway. I have a bad feeling that this just might be the end of the Constitutional right to have a counted vote. I guess this will be a litmus test for the era.
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No doubt they will try to take the seat even if they lose. 🤮🤬
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"Ballots are on the way" is really a stirring phrase when democracy is on the line
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I do not trust election integrity with Musk rat around.
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Unprepared ugh...
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Well done, Wisconsin!!!!!
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Very important to remind voters in Wisconsin that if they're in line when polls close at 8 CT they get to vote. Do not leave. Please spread the word.
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Looks like they've got weather happening too. 😐Why the heck would they runout of ballots? Always over prepare!!!
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On purpose perhaps
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Unless They want to vote for Schimmel, they should do that tomorrow
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Hah!
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Where the fuck are they it’s been almost two hours the staff are not being updated with expected arrival times
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The two Florida House seats went to the Republicans. So predictable.
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Ugh, lame. But yeah, it was a long shot.
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The win is that the gap is closing in on the republican is deep red areas. Keep fighting 🇺🇸
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100% we have 5 April 5 events in the tampa area ALONE. I think the gap will continue to close, especially as people keep losing their benefits 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠.
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I hate that people have to suffer but some have touch the stove to know it’s hot. Love that Tampa is standing up. Keep up the momentum 💕
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I know, same 😵‍💫. Hopefully, they wake up before the house burns down. Thank you! Tampa has always leaned more left until DeSantis gerrymandered us.
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But by a smaller margin than in previous elections.
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Sounds like 2024...

585k ballots cast in precinct disqualified
1.2 Million Provisional ballots were rejected
3.2 million new registered voters were rejected
1 in 7 Black in person votes were rejected

"The Horror is that Amerikkka changes all the time without ever changing at all!"🤬

-Baldwin
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Lol now the 🐀 is saying it was stolen. Sorry that’s been used already.
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Running... out of... ballots? Holy shit, what a day. ❤️🤍💙
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stay in line -- and vote as if your democracy depended on it!
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But she won!
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High turn outs are always good news
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There were similar reports around the country on November 5th too and somehow even less people than 2020 voted once all was said and done. Granted I'm skeptical of everything to do with that election and wouldn't be shocked if Musk did something.
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“Somehow”….? They stole the election in November and have practically admitted it.
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This! ☝️
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There is NO WAY tRump won every swing state.
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He did. They practically admitted it.
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Putin kept calling in bomb threats, remember?!
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Hmm...
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Wow
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Still worried, we had high turnout in 2024
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This is inexcusable. The election official in the County ought to be fired as soon as the Canvass certifies the election.
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Of course - always shenanigans in the urban areas
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"We printed up 32 of them. That should've been enough for Schimel to win. Why more voters showed up is beyond us, unless someone promised them delicious WI cheese for voting."

Only reason I know how to pronounce this man's name is because of watching Laverne & Shirley every wk. "Hasenpfeffer Inc!"
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#StayInLine
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My polling place had to make paper copies...
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Cue Donold and Elonia crying election interference …
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Thank you, Wisconsin, for showing us all how to start to claw back to democracy.
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best news ever!!
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In Milwaukee
Voting Milwaukee
The balots are on their way.
In Milwaukee
Voting Milwakee
The balots send Trump away

A vote away
A vote away
A vote away
A vote away
Will send Trump on his way
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Hoping this is a good omen!
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🙏🤞🙏
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As long as there are no bomb threats called in it should be fine...
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God I hope this is a GOOD landslide
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I really hope it's good news that is a record turnout. 🤞🏻
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She kicked his ass!!! 🙌🙌
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This and Booker made it a not-so-awful day.

We're not even close though.
We need to match Trump's rapid deployment of his fucked up agenda. We need to make up some time and get aggressive.

LOUD.
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That's right. If we listen to Booker we'll get off our butts and do something. I don't think enough people realize their own power. If they'd call, email or visit the DC or local offices of their congresspeople, especially the Republican ones, they could make an impact. And that's DOing something.
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He was like us. Shocked that this is happening and that there's no hyperactive response. So many seats in Congress are reacting as if none of it affects them.

Well, it affects your constituents, assholes.
It's why Dem town halls are getting just as surly.
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I've seen many Dem congresspeople take on their MAGA counterparts in Congress, but few people out here ever even see what's going on there. Many more people who are speaking up in Congress need to get their butts out here and speak up, meet with Republicans and inform people.
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YAY!
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YES!!!!!
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We heard that in the 24 election and it turned out 20 million fewer people voted
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Exactly my thoughts. Stories of lines all the way around the blocks . . . but then half of the populous voted‽
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Remember what you’re fighting for, Wisconsin: giving Elon a ketamine-induced stroke
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That's great!! Please post turnout % when those numbers are available!
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Democracy Rules
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Yes, stay in line & vote! Come hell or high water 💪💪💪
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Why do we have to deal with this out of ballot shit every election. IMO this is a form of voter suppression. Spend the extra money and print the extra ballots.
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This is rare for Wisconsin. I feel they do an overall great job of handling the elections.
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It is! It 100% is!
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for an election to be considered "fair and free" there needs to be one ballot printed for EVERY voter in a district, whether they turn up and use it is not the point.. it MUST be available.
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Wow
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Stay in line. Do not leave without casting your vote.
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Nice and deliberate
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running out of ballots is inexcusable, Republicans want us to become a banana republic
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Vote
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Hope this is a good sign
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This is a really good sign.
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🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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This is a GREAT sign for dems!
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Jesus, does any other functioning democracy *run out of ballots*?
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Funny. Wondered about that one. Run out of ballots? Uh?
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There’s same day registration there. Otherwise they’d have at least enough for all registered voters in that precinct. Maybe there’s a large uptick in same day registration.
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We always do this shizitt!
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No. In fact, THIS is what happens in a functioning democracy:

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/g-s1-57262/france-marine-le-pen-embezzlement-verdict
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Whenever asking why the Founders did something really stupid in the Constitution--like, say, lodging control of elections in the poorest, least competent, most corruptible level of government--the null hypothesis is always "because the slavers demanded it." Only rarely can it be rejected.
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No
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I’ve never heard of it in Canada.
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We are under siege by the republicans
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Is it too late for Putin to call in a few bomb threats?
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How can you run out of ballots if everyone is entitled to a vote?
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Usually in the US only a fraction of eligible voters actually vote. We are poor democracy participants.
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Maybe you should consider making it compulsory.

People have died so that we can vote.

Maybe we all should.
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Awesome!
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@repgwenmoore.bsky.social
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I am still more frightened about this election than ever before
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Turnout may be at record levels for an election of this sort at this time of the year in the state, but it looks like it will be about a million fewer voters than in the Nov’24 general election.

That means a lot of people don’t care about the harms done by the lawless regime in DC.
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It is disgraceful to run out of ballots.
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Milwaukee is a democratic city, how does this happen?
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Let's not do that again
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Well when turn out high this usually favors who in WI?
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Susan Crawford won brad got shit stomped maybe should focused on running on reasons we should have voted for you kneepad brad
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Instead of just attacking your opponent
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If you are in line, STAY IN LINE.
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In the Red States the line are intended to be long. Democrats don't have the right to vote in Red States. Republican
Biden’s supporters had to wait hours in line to vote for him.
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I never understood the long lines. It's clearly by design
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Can you imagine living in a country that does not have enough ballets to vote. So much for the exceptionalism myth.
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As I’ve read on another post: Cory Booker stood in the senate floor for almost 25 hours in an effort to help save democracy. Please stay in line.
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Cory spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes.
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This is the way
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How's Florida looking?
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GOP wins the day in Florida. Naturally.
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Bummer.
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Nice job Elon. Thanks for plastering your name all over this race and motivating everyone to come out to vote against you!
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Yet, that’s not at all what is happening.
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Last I checked, it was pretty close to exactly that.
2025 Wis. General
Supreme Court
estimates
47% of votes counted
Candidate votes pct.
Susan Crawford
NP
627,524 57.4%
Brad Schimel
NP
466,604 42.6%

But when she wins in a landslide, it will suddenly reverse and he'll get all her votes.
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>66% of votes tallied, I'm calling it for Crawford.

With about 66.5 percent of votes tallied.
Candidate Votes Pct.
Susan Crawford 846,123 55.7
Brad Schimel 673,705 44.3
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I'm not going to hold my breath. I'm hopeful, but I anticipate the worst thanks to the last general election.
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Intentional malfeasance
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Not this shit again.
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Milwaukee turnout decides Wisconsin elections. Is this foul play?
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Chills! 😍
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🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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This is amazing!
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Enjoy the win....y'all 😎
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People are finally opening their eyes 👀
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Hoping no praying they are blue voters
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Hang in there. You will vote.
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@natalyj.bsky.social
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Stay in line!
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IF YOU'RE IN LINE READING THIS, STAY IN LINE. IF YOU STAY IN LINE, YOU GET TO VOTE NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES. WE NEED YOU!
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STAY IN LINE even when 8 pm hits.
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PaLeasE Be PaTient
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High turnout is generally *not* good news for Republicans.
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The Constitution clearly states in the 22nd Amendment "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice". Trump hates Voting Rights Attorney Marc Elias. Trump always loses when Marc Elias is suing him.
https://youtu.be/nF6Lmr3tVR4?si=qNC35P-f1LveNOIH
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Don’t you f*ck this up?!
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Are there any patterns with the polling places running low?
Wisconsin has some real crazy MAGA on the state level who regularly engage in voter suppression, extreme gerrymandering with court-ruled unconstitutional maps, and the dirtiest politics in the country.
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What kind of chaos are your elections? 🇨🇦 is bewildered.
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So am I, and I live here.
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And apparently, the race has been called for Ms. Crawford. She won by over double digits.
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