Miscommunication and “a technology error” led to a polling place issue earlier this month that created a brief controversy over extending voting hours at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a campus spokesperson said.
Neither the university nor city officials expect such a problem to occur in future elections, they said.
“This was a very weird situation,” said Madison Ald. MGR Govindarajan, who represents a campus-area district on the City Council. “It’s not something that’s happened before,” he said, and it’s unlikely to happen again.
Some voters were turned away April 2 at one of the largest campus gathering spaces. The city clerk then successfully filed a petition with the Dane County Circuit Court to extend voting hours by an hour and a half in Madison Wards 60 and 134.