Hows voter Turnout in your area?

[undeterred]

I am on the east side of Madison and I was #100 at 8am. Polls open at 7am, so that is absolutely fabulous! That's like a presidential election!

Canvassers on the east side over the weekend reported 74% of those planning to vore were going for Kloppenburg.

:kick:

[Borchkins]

1. turnout

I vote at LaFollette High School (also east side for those outside of Madison), I was number 176 at 8:10. It is like a general election turnout.
B

[ewagner]

2. Wife and I

voted at 7:30...#'s 54 and 55 in our Ward...that's pretty good for a spring election

[PeaceNikki]

3. I just returned and the turnout in Hartland is pretty high for an election like this.

I was # 380 at about 11:00.

[undeterred]

5. Now that's scary.

Sensenbrenner territory. What other contested races?

[PeaceNikki]

6. Village Trustee, School Board and Circuit Court.

Yes, this is VERY red. DEEP Sensenbrenner territory.

[Critters2]

9. You live in Hartland? I go through there when I go the "back road" way

to my my dad's in West Bend. I love that twisty-turny state road through there, find it a nice drive. But yeah, that area is really red!

[PeaceNikki]

13. Hwy 83, I am sure.

It's very pretty here in Lake Country. :)

[Critters2]

23. 83, that's it. I started going that way when my mom was in the nursing home

in Hartford. A pleasant drive that took me right to the nursing home for a visit before going the rest of the way to West Bend. I don't do it at night, though. I never know where the next curve is!

Yeah, really pretty country.

[PeaceNikki]

24. Watch out for deer around here.

That's true any time of day OR year.

[PeaceNikki]

25. oops

[AllyCat]

4. Stoughton and I was #78 at 7:45. I've never seen a line there before,

but we were ten deep. People are hopefully there because the are pissed at the way things are rather than at the unions. But we'll see.

I've seen a total of one sign for Kloppenberg's challenger in Stoughton. One.

[Blacksheep214]

12. I see the spammers and trolls are working overtime

over at the JS Online comments.

They shine brighter than the yellow counters at Geo Webb at 2 AM. (Old Webb)

You can see the money of Koch and Rove at work! Assholes lie!

[louslobbs]

18. It's all they've got, nothing else, just fraud, lies, stories and lots of money to rig elections and

pay to get their own way. Hopefully, it will not work this time since our Unions are awake and know what our futures look like if we don't win this battle and eventually, this war.
Lou

[louslobbs]

16. Hey! Maybe that's a sign? Go Wisconsin Brothers and Sisters we love you!

Lou

[eowyn_of_rohan]

29. That is encouraging

i went mid morning and it was rather slow... I have no idea how it was before work hours- Hopefully as good as your turn out.

[TheMightyFavog]

7. Rural Marinette County here:

I was 103 Just finished maybe five minutes ago. We're pretty red here, as well. Hopefully Madison, Milwaukee and other more enlightened places will pick up the slack.

[louslobbs]

19. From your mouth.......................Go Wisconsin Democrats and Union Republicans, take back your

power and then we'll all take back "our" country.
Lou

[eleny]

8. Great thread! K&R

[Blue Owl]

10. Hope lots of signatures are being collected, too

Recall the Grand Old Plague.

[iwishiwas]

11. kick

[travelingtypist]

14. Thanks for this thread.

K&R

:kick:

[louslobbs]

15. OMG, this is great news, I don't want to count my snowmen, but this has me very excited. "Please"

as the Winter Warlock would say "Oh Please, let me have just a little magic" and all of a sudden everything lights up and JoAnne Kloppenburg takes her seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court having beaten Prosser the toy hating, children hating, woman hating, Democracy hating, Burger Meister Prosser.
Lou

[goddess40]

17. Wausau

I live in a red area and was #415 at 11:20 AM. That's a good turnout for this area. Unfortunately a lot of it is Repuke.

[Lochloosa]

20. Thom Hartman was just interviewing someone from Madison.

I did not catch his name, but he said they were predicting a turnout comparable to a presidential election. This would be a first.

[alterfurz]

21. #761 ~10:30am, Madison near east side

at mid-morning of the Feb. primary, I was #276. Turnout like this is a *very* good sign!

[annabanana]

22. This sounds pretty damn good, over-all. . . . n/t..kick

[iwishiwas]

26. Lets really hope so. A lot is riding on this.

[HereSince1628]

27. I voted at about 10 am in Wauwatosa's 16th district

I was 230th voter. I think turn out here is pretty good, the vote total maybe running a bit ahead, but this neighborhood is mostly college graduates. People who are likely to vote early.

[snacker]

28. Around 11 this morning,

I was #235 in our little northeastern WI city where the only contested race is Kloppenburg/Prosser.

[dragonlady]

30. On track to double turnout of April 2008

That one was Butler v. Gableman for Supreme Court and Scott Walker v. Lena Taylor for county exec. Roughly analogous to today's election.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

31. 35% as of 4:00 pm in Madison - hope LOTS will vote after work. -nt

[JimWis]

32. Looked like a strong turn out here in Altoona -

(by Eau Claire). Voted midday, and alot of folks there, for a small town. Looked busy when I went by tonight. Hope that is a good sign.

[ewagner]

33. Unbelieveable

talked to City Clerk around 5 o'clock...

SHE RAN OUT OF BALLOTS!!!!

She ordered enough for a 33% turnout and they exceeded that.....made manual ballots and tally sheets!

[sybylla]

35. She ain't too bright if she only expected 33% turnout.

I heard predictions all last week putting it at around 50%.

[AllyCat]

36. So I wonder what it will take to count those manual ballots and tally sheets

Sounds like the race is close as of this writing.

[sybylla]

34. Big. Big. Big.

Even in my little township, we had November-like turnout.

We'll find out in the next couple of hours if that bodes well. I remain cautiously optimistic.

[ginnyinWI]

37. Waukesha County

Republican stronghold; voting was light as far as when I was there around 3:30 p.m. I was only #71. It is not a large community, but still. One new thing there that I thought was good: drive-up voting for disabled or older people who have trouble getting out of their cars. You are to honk your horn and they will come out and give you a ballot.