Milwaukee Mayor Thanks Election Workers

By Erik Gunn, Wisconsin Examiner

November 8, 2022

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson has been making rounds on election day to various polling sites in his city. The mayor, who was elected earlier this year after former Mayor Tom Barrett stepped down after nearly two decades, chronicled the visits on his official Twitter page.

Johnson praised staff across the city of Milwaukee for “ensuring a transparent, fair, and safe election for Milwaukeeans.” The mayor added in a tweet on his personal account: “I visited Parkview School, Zablocki Library, Gr. Holy Temple School, and Central Count to thank them for their service.”

More than 66,000 absentee ballots are being counted at the city’s Central Count, with about 6,680 ballots that have yet to be returned. Milwaukeeans who have not returned their absentee ballots can still deliver them to City Hall, room 501, before 5 p.m., or to Central Count at the Wisconsin Center before 7 p.m. to be counted. Officials estimate that counting will finish around 11 p.m.

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