[View reside outcomes from Tuesday’s races in Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Wisconsin.]As voting takes place in Georgia and Wisconsin on Tues
[View reside outcomes from Tuesday’s races in Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Wisconsin.]
As voting takes place in Georgia and Wisconsin on Tuesday — polls opened at 7 a.m. Jap in Georgia and eight a.m. Jap in Minnesota — consideration might be on the election methods simply as a lot because the candidates.
These two battleground states struggled to carry earlier main elections amid the pandemic; whereas Tuesday’s elections will in all probability have decrease turnout, they may nonetheless be a take a look at of the voting equipment.
In Wisconsin, which was the primary state to carry a big, statewide election because the pandemic was surging in early April, the coronavirus remains to be close to peak ranges, however the elections system seems to be on extra stable footing. One of many key causes of the lengthy, mask-clad strains in Milwaukee in April was a scarcity of ballot employees, which led town to consolidate 180 polling areas down to 5.
On Tuesday, about 170 voting websites might be open in Milwaukee, or roughly 95 % of the common websites. The state additionally activated the Nationwide Guard, which might be wearing plain garments, to be on standby ought to there be any emergency shortages on Tuesday.
In Georgia, the place about 60 % of the state’s counties are holding elections, the turnout isn’t anticipated to achieve ranges at which lengthy strains can be an issue as they have been in the course of the main. The state’s most populous county — Fulton County — additionally opened an early voting location at State Farm Enviornment in Atlanta to assist alleviate Election Day surges.
The absentee poll deadlines, which required a poll to reach by shut of enterprise on Friday, stay unchanged from the first election in June.