威斯康星州大多数最大的城市，包括密尔沃基和绿湾，都在一个集中地点统计邮寄选票。例如，密尔沃基邮寄选票的计票工作于周二上午开始，并通过 YouTube 进行直播，供人们全天观看。但威斯康星州选举委员会行政长官梅根•沃尔夫周三解释说，威斯康星州法律要求邮寄投票的结果必须一次性报告。当被问及隔夜投票总数飙升时，沃尔夫表示：这样一来，你把所有邮寄选票的结果一下子放进总计数，就出现了选票激增。
Most of Wisconsin’s largest cities, including Milwaukee and Green Bay, count absentee ballots in one centralized location. The count of Milwaukee’s absentee ballots, for example, began Tuesday morning and was live-streamed for people to view throughout the day on YouTube. But Wisconsin law requires that the results of those absentee votes be reported all at once, Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe explained Wednesday.
“With that you’re going to get the result sets all as one, with all the absentees,” Wolfe said when asked about the overnight spike in vote totals.
