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Photos: Election 2020 voting
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Poll worker MacGregor Wale greets voters Tuesday at the Catholic Multicultural Center in Madison.
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Poll worker Crystal Schoen greets election day voters Tuesday at the Catholic Multicultural Center in Madison.
Voting - Elver Park
People wait to vote at Elver Park in Madison on Tuesday morning. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and a record number of absentee ballots cast, many voters said they felt more secure casting ballots in person in what most agreed is the most consequential election of their lifetime.
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Keizan Sato works with absentee ballots Tuesday at Mendota Elementary School on Madison's North Side.
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Election Day voting at Mendota Elementary School on Madison's Northside.
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Esther Martin, left, and Keizan Sato process absentee ballots Tuesday at Mendota Elementary School on Madison's North Side.
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Chief inspector Pat Butler oversees voting Tuesday at Mendota Elementary School on Madison's North Side.
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Voters in the town of Wrightstown, south of De Pere, placed their once-used pens in a bucket after voting as part of the town's efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 on Election Day.
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Voters enter the town of Wrightstown polling place in Brown County Tuesday.
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Voters wait in line on the dance floor at the Swan Club, a banquet hall — and today, a polling place — in the Brown County city of De Pere.
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Buck Rhyme, middle, checks in a voter before handing out a ballot slip Tuesday at Olbrich Botanical Gardens on Madison's East Side.
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After receiving her ballot from poll worker Sharon Gaskill, right, Hailey Zimmerman prepares to vote at the Vermont Town Hall in Vermont, Wis. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Poll worker Kris Antonie processes absentee ballots at the Vermont Town Hall in Vermont, Wis. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Town of Vermont, Wis. clerk Katie Zelle shares a space designated for election observers while waiting for voters at the Vermont Town Hall Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Peter Antonie and his wife, Kris, process absentee ballots at the Vermont Town Hall in Vermont, Wis. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Pens used by voters share a tray at the Vermont Town Hall in Vermont, Wis. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Voting - Boys and Girls Club
Chief inspector Don Eggert hands a sealed bag of absentee ballots to poll workers Alice Howard, left, and Courtney Bartunek to be counted Tuesday at the Boys and Girls Club polling place on Madison's South West Side. Howard and Bartunek were among Madison's 3,993 first-time poll workers.
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First Lutheran Church polling place in Stoughton, Wis., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Poll worker Joyce Kaping cleans a protection barrier during down time between voters at First Lutheran Church polling place in Stoughton, Wis., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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A sign outside a polling place at the fire station in Stoughton, Wis., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Samantha Nelson casts her vote, with her daughter and nieces by her side, at First Lutheran Church in Stoughton, Wis., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Voter Hunter Payne, 21, right, goes over information with poll worker Jenny Baeseman before receiving his ballot at First Lutheran Church in Stoughton, Wis., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Maureen Nortridge fills out her ballot at First Lutheran Church in Stoughton, Wis., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Poll workers, including Stoughton High School students, David Stracener, left, and Amelia Rhinerson, with Heidi Heffron-Clark, at right, process absentee ballots at First Lutheran Church in Stoughton, Wis., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Sandra Dickman fills out her ballot in a tent at Elver Park in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
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Voter Alexander Boatwright, left, checks his address with poll workers Karen Carlson and Anders Clark, right, in a tent used as a polling location at Elver Park in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
