Battleground Wisconsin Surpasses 1M Early Votes, Third of 2016 Total

Voters in Wisconsin have already more than 1 million votes, more than one-third of all the ballots cast in the state in the 2016 presidential election, with 11 days until Election Day, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported citing government data.

The overwhelming majority of the 1 million votes has come via absentee ballot, but the opening day of early, in-person voting on Tuesday drew 80,000, the Journal Sentinel said.

President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 in Wisconsin – which had not voted for a Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1984 – by 22,748 votes out of nearly 2.8 million cast for its 10 Electoral College votes

The Journal Sentinel said that Democratic-leaning Dane County has seen 51% of its 2016 turnout already, with one of its towns even reaching 75%.

It said the top counties to have the highest percentages of early in-person voting compared to 2016 are Ozuakee and Washington, also traditionally Republican areas.

Besides Dane, the counties with the highest share of early absentee voting as compared to 2016 were Brown, centered around Green Bay, with 41%, and Ozaukee, with 39%.

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