Slow ballot label printing causing voting delays in some municipalities
Editor’s Note: This article was updated to include the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s statement on the resolution of Tuesday’s system lags.
FOX CITIES, Wis. (WFRV) – Authorities in the Fox Valley have confirmed with Local 5 News that it’s taking them about ten minutes per voter to print labels for ballots, causing significant delays for voters on day one of early voting in Wisconsin.
Local clerks in Little Chute and Appleton use a statewide system called WisVote, which they say is working very slowly right now, causing the delays.
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Local 5 News was in Little Chute at around 1 p.m. this afternoon when the village was experiencing the label printing issue. Village officials said they hope that this can get resolved quickly.
At around 4 p.m., Little Chute officials posted on their Facebook page saying “early in-person voting was shut down early on Tuesday, October 22 due to statewide server issues. We hope to back up and running Wednesday Morning at 8am. We will update Facebook and our website if anything changes.”
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Little Chute village officials said they’ve had a high turnout on day one of early voting. They’ve had 300 in-person absentee voters come in before noon on Tuesday.
There were long lines in Neenah, Green Bay, and Appleton on the first day of early voting as well.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission issued a statement at around 5:00 p.m. saying they’ve resolved the system lags caused by high voter turnout.
“Due to higher than expected turnout for the first day of in-person absentee voting, the WisVote system that some clerks use experienced a period of slowness that has now been resolved. Clerks use WisVote to print a label that can be placed on the outside of in-person absentee certificate envelopes.
The same information can be affixed on the outside of the envelope manually with a pen.
Today’s system lag was purely related to demands on the WisVote system due to high turnout.
This should not prevent any voter’s ability to vote in-person absentee today. WEC staff worked quickly to increase system capacity to ensure that clerks can continue to facilitate in-person absentee voting efficiently.”
Wisconsin Elections Commission
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