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I’ve waited 18 days for my absentee ballot to arrive for WI’s 4/7 primary. (Yes, I called to follow up — still no dice.) I’m afraid my ballot might never arrive, and my wife is at elevated risk for the virus. So I’m heading out for the last day of ‘drive-they’ early voting.
First, I swung by the post office to drop my wife’s ballot in the mail. She requested hers 4 days after I did and got it right away. I’m grateful for that, because she won’t need to go out.
I, however, need to choose between: hoping my ballot arrives after all; drive-thru voting today; in-person voting Tuesday with 10k+ voters expected at each of five sites; or sitting out my first election in a decade.
I’m not willing to roll the dice on option 1, because it feels as good as option 4, which I don’t want. Between the remaining choices, 2 is obviously dagger than 3. Still, I hate that I have to endanger the health of someone I love — even if only slightly — in order to vote.
(BTW, I’ve spotted several others on Twitter with our same story: two voters at the same address both request ballots. One promptly arrived; the other still hasn’t. Makes you wonder whether there’s some sort of glitch in the database...)
I’ve been in line since about 12:05 pm.
At first, I thought the line was a block or so long....
Then I got up to Kilbourn St., where I saw that the line snakes around a few additional city blocks.
The next block up, the car in front of me left the line. We had been waiting 20-25 min.
Just got up to the first in-person interaction. It has been 35 min. Mask on! Guy asks if I’m registered. Yes. Does the address on my ID match my current address? No. Have I voted at my current address before? Yes. I get to stay in the line. The car in front of me leaves.
(Wisconsin typically offers same-day voter registration at your polling place. Not so with drive-thru early voting, it would appear.)
