{"id":37666,"date":"2025-04-02T02:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/milwaukee-polling-places-running-out-of-ballots-amid-historic-turnout-by-voters\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T02:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:13:17","slug":"milwaukee-polling-places-running-out-of-ballots-amid-historic-turnout-by-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/milwaukee-polling-places-running-out-of-ballots-amid-historic-turnout-by-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee polling places running out of ballots amid &#8216;historic turnout&#8217; by voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Milwaukee is running out of ballots due to &#8220;historic turnout&#8221; on Tuesday night, as Badger State residents stand in line at polling places to decide whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/wisconsin-supreme-court-rejects-democrat-ags-attempt-block-elon-musks-1m-giveaway-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wisconsin Supreme Court<\/a> will lean conservative or liberal.<\/p>\n<p>FOX 6 Milwaukee reporter Jason Calvi reported the developments on Tuesday night. At least seven polling sites have run out of ballots, per the Milwaukee Elections Commission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sites are expecting more ballots soon, though the polls closed at 8 p.m. Milwaukee officials also noted that Wisconsin residents in line by 8 p.m. are still eligible to vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working diligently to replenish ballots,&#8221; the Milwaukee Elections Commission wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-announces-plan-chop-down-magnolia-tree-purportedly-planted-andrew-jackson-must-come-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>TRUMP ANNOUNCES PLAN TO CHOP DOWN MAGNOLIA TREE PURPORTEDLY PLANTED BY ANDREW JACKSON: &#8216;MUST COME TO AN END&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Supreme Court currently has a 4-3 liberal majority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The court race has attracted attention across the country, as both Democrat and Republican-aligned groups from outside Wisconsin have dedicated money and resources to swaying the race. It&#8217;s been interpreted as a referendum on President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/u><\/a> second administration so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hosted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ag-files-last-minute-appeal-block-musk-from-gifting-1-million-voters-high-stakes-wi-court-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>America PAC town hall<\/u><\/a> in Green Bay on Sunday night, where he handed two $1 million dollar checks to two voters who signed a petition against &#8220;activist judges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-admin-reviewing-billions-government-contracts-grants-harvard-amid-antisemitism-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>TRUMP ADMIN REVIEWING BILLIONS IN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS, GRANTS FOR HARVARD AMID ANTISEMITISM ALLEGATIONS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul unsuccessfully asked for an emergency injunction to stop Musk from handing out the checks, but the state&#8217;s highest court declined to hear Kaul&#8217;s arguments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason for the checks is that, it&#8217;s really just to get attention,&#8221; Musk said while holding a gigantic check. &#8220;It&#8217;s like, we need to get attention\u2026 somewhat inevitably, when I do this\u2026 it causes the legacy media to, like, kind of lose their minds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk&#8217;s attorneys maintained that the payments are &#8220;intended to generate a grassroots movement in opposition to activist judges, not to expressly advocate for or against any candidate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News Digital&#8217;s Sophia Compton and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Milwaukee is running out of ballots due to &#8220;historic turnout&#8221; on Tuesday night, as Badger State residents stand in line at polling places to decide whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court will lean conservative or liberal. FOX 6 Milwaukee reporter Jason Calvi reported the developments on Tuesday night. At least seven polling sites &#8230; <a title=\"Milwaukee polling places running out of ballots amid &#8216;historic turnout&#8217; by voters\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/milwaukee-polling-places-running-out-of-ballots-amid-historic-turnout-by-voters\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Milwaukee polling places running out of ballots amid &#8216;historic turnout&#8217; by voters\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}