3/22/12 – Changes to voting rules have Wisconsin election clerks scrambling to inform the public in advance of the presidential primary and local elections on April 3rd. While the controversial voter ID law is tied up in the courts and won’t be in effect next month there are some changes if you want to vote absentee. Any registered voter wishing to vote absentee must complete a ballot application and return it to their municipal clerk’s office no later than 5pm on the Thursday before the election. You can find those applications online at the Dodge County website or the Government Accountability website. Also, voting absentee in person ends on the Friday prior to the election. There is no absentee voting over the weekend or the Monday before the election. Dodge County Clerk Karen Gibson will join us on our Community Comment program this afternoon to talk about absentee ballots and any other questions that listeners might have. The program will begin around 12:35pm.
