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Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 59. Sunrise is 7:23, and sunset is 5:53, for 10 hours, 30 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent, with 20.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1682, Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Mary Spicuzza reports Early voting in Wisconsin sees 40% increase, election officials say:
Early voting in Wisconsin has increased by nearly 40% over 2020 as of Friday, Wisconsin elections officials said.
Early in-person absentee voting began Tuesday in the state, and as of Friday morning 292,702 people had voted, the Wisconsin Elections Commission said. That’s compared to 209,665 as of the morning of Friday, Oct. 23, 2020.
Nearly 1 million absentee ballots have been requested by Wisconsin voters and more than 715,000 ballots have already been returned to clerks, either by mail or by those voting in-person absentee, elections officials said.
Voters cast a total of some 640,100 absentee ballots in 2008, then 665,340 absentee ballots in 2012; 824,736 absentee ballots in 2016; and about 1.9 million absentee ballots in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Election officials said Friday that 921,832 total absentee ballots had requested so far for the 2024 election.
The type of early voting (prior to 11.5) may shift between absentee balloting and early in-person voting, especially as against a pandemic year. The trend toward voting before Election Day, however, so that Election Day becomes Election Days, is undeniable.
See also from FREE WHITEWATER Nearly 100,00 Ballots Cast on First Day of In-Person Early Voting.