A bill that would allow Wisconsin election officials to speed up the counting of absentee ballots does not appear to have support in the senate. Assembly speaker Robin Vos has urged the senate to pass the bill that would allow for absentee ballots to be processed the day before election day, a bipartisan measure the Assembly already passed. Republican state representative Mark Born of Beaver Dam says the measure would ease the workload of election officials, particularly in Milwaukee, where the counting of ballots can go deep into the night. “It seems like there are these few folks that are election deniers, like Janel Brandtjen, that are continuing to fight this,” Born told AM1170s Between the Lines program. “It would just allow them (clerks) to do what they are already doing on Tuesday, but to start doing it on Monday.” Former president Donald Trump and election skeptics have falsely claimed that those so-called ballot dumps are the result of election fraud. “In Dodge and Fond du Lac (counties) there’s enough poll workers to tackle the number of absentee ballots. In Milwaukee there’s too many. They can’t process them all in one day and so it always go well into the late night or early morning hours of the next day,” Born said. “People say where did all this come from? Well, it came from all the folks that voted absentee. It just takes that long to count it. It’s not that hard to figure out what’s happening and we have a real solution that can fix it.”
