An absentee ballot in Wisconsin gets returned with an error, like the voter failing to sign the envelope, but it mistakenly gets counted anyway, because a municipal election worker initially didn't catch the error when taking the ballot out of the envelope.

County is hosting two events Sept. 17 on National Voter Registration Day to provide opportunities for voter registration and education.

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You can register to vote at your polling place on Election Day in Wisconsin. But you can get registered before that, including online.