By Nora Eckert, Wisconsin Watch
As Claire Woodall-Vogg stood in the middle of an empty Central Count facility days before the Nov. 3 election, it wasn’t just the national spotlight on the city of Milwaukee or the swirling claims of voter fraud that weighed heavily on her mind.
It was the frustration because she, and hundreds of other Milwaukee election workers, were facing an unprecedented pile of absentee ballots — without permission to process them.
While momentum to allow this has built since 2008, with two pieces of legislation proposed in the last legislative session alone, Wisconsin still bars poll workers from opening absentee ballots before Election Day. This year, that meant working around the clock to get the flood of absentee ballots counted.
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