How Wisconsin’s Washington County helped its municipalities expand early voting hours

How Wisconsin’s Washington County helped its municipalities expand early voting hours

Reading Time: 5 minutesAbsentee voting didn’t used to be popular in Addison, a rural town of 3,300 in southeast Wisconsin. A few days before the last Supreme Court election in 2023, only about 60 residents had cast absentee ballots in person.This year, at the same point in the election cycle, that number was over 300.The sharp increase is due partly to Republicans’ recent embrace of absentee voting, especially in the nearly two-week period befor…