Clerk reports strong absentee turnout and 410 poll workers for Nov. 5 election
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Interim clerk Linda reported the city handled heavy in‑person absentee turnout and mailed absentee ballots for the Nov. 5 election, with more than 12,000 walk‑in absentee voters and roughly 8,000 mailed ballots returned; the clerk encouraged more poll workers and reminded council of process improvements such as potential BadgerBooks adoption.
Interim City Clerk Linda summarized the city’s work on the Nov. 5 election, telling the council the election period began in September and involved extensive staff and poll‑worker activity.
Linda reported more than 12,000 voters used in‑person absentee services at City Hall and roughly 8,000 absentee ballots were mailed and returned, meaning a little over half of voters used early or absentee voting methods. She said more than 410 poll workers staffed the city’s 15 polling locations on election day.
The clerk noted that Waukesha currently does not use the state’s BadgerBooks electronic poll‑book system; she said if BadgerBooks had been used, compiling poll‑book data from polling places after the election would have been a much faster process and likely would have reduced the roughly six‑week period the city needed to close out post‑election poll‑book processing. She encouraged alderpersons to recruit poll workers for future elections and said staff is preparing for the February primary and the April 1 spring election.
Council members thanked Linda for the work; the mayor and others reminded colleagues of the clerk’s comment about considering BadgerBooks as a tool to shorten post‑election administrative tasks.