JANESVILLE—Poll workers say new electronic equipment in use at Janesville polling places seemed to smooth voter check-in Tuesday—so long as voters were actually at the correct polling places.
Tuesday’s midterm election was the first full-scale rollout in Janesville of “Badger Books,” a statewide electronic voter registry database that allows for digital check-in of voters at polling places instead of workers having to check voter registration records in binders full of paper.
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