Absentee Ballot Numbers Jump in Wisconsin

According to The Wisconsin State Elections boardthe number of absentee ballots has increase exponentially in select areas of Wisconsin.  The increase is at least 50% in Brown, Dane, Milwaukee, and Waukesha Counties; in fact, in Milwaukee alone the increase since 2004 is 130%.  Kevin J. Kennedy, Wisconsin’s Chief Election Officer and Director and General Counsel of the Government Accountability Board, does warn that this is pilmenary and not 100% accurate.  But the reason for this dramatic increase? No answer has been given as of yet.