Wisconsin voting website appears to be working again
MILWAUKEE -- A website voters in Wisconsin can use to find out where to vote appears back in business after not working earlier during Tuesday's primary election.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission on Tuesday morning directed voters to use a backup website, www.gettothepolls.com, while they tried to fix the MyVote Wisconsin site. The site appeared to be working by 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.
A message on the MyVote site earlier in the day read as follows:
MyVote is currently experiencing issues with our addressing services, which also affects polling place and sample ballot lookup. To find your polling place, please use the VIP Polling Place lookup - https://gttp.votinginfoproject.org/. For questions about sample ballots or other election questions please contact your municipal clerk or the Wisconsin Elections Commission at 608-261-2028 or elections@wi.gov.
Voters and clerks are urged to use the backup service, gettothepolls.com, while the state fixes the problem.
The commission said that it provides official polling place data to the backup website, which is run by the Voting Information Project. That's a partnership between states and Democracy Works. The commission said having that as a backup is part of its contingency plan for a failure in the MyVote website.
Tuesday's primary included a three-way statewide race for Wisconsin Supreme Court and contests on both the Republican and Democratic side for an open 7th Congressional District seat in northern Wisconsin. There are also numerous local elections.
The two top vote-getters in the Supreme Court race will square off in the April 7 general election. Winners in the congressional race to replace retired Republican U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy will face one another in a May 12 special election.
Neil Albrecht
Neil Albrecht, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, said while it may have impacted voters in other parts of the station, it was not an issue in Milwaukee -- because they have their own site.
"It's not significant to the City of Milwaukee because we think most city residents at least go to our website, to the `Where Do I Vote?` feature, and that is actually up and running," Albrecht said.
The polls are open on Tuesday from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.