As Greenfield Patch learns the results of Tuesday's election — from the President of the United States to state Senate and Assembly races — we'll update the following table. It will continue to be updated throughout the evening.

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Presidential and U.S. Senate results only represent votes in Greenfield. Congressional and state legislative results are for entire district.

LAST UPDATE: 6 a.m. Wednesday - some results courtesy of FOX 6.

Updated: 8:25 p.m.: If anyone was expecting long lines, people standing in the rain and voters getting turned away at the door when polls closed, you would have been disappointed.

At least that was the case at the Greenfield Community Center, where from 7:40-8 p.m. only a dozen or so voters filed through the doors, including four in the final 5 minutes.

But that doesn't mean turnout was low. In Ward 5, for example, 980 people had voted, and 1,009 were registered prior to this morning. (Note: the 980 total does not included all absentee votes, and the 1,009 does not include all people who registered on-site Tuesday).

In Ward 6, 912 votes had been machine-counted when polls closed, and 995 people had registered prior to Tuesday.

The Community Center did experience two last-minute machine jams, neither of which resulted in lost ballots or miscounts.

And if you're wondering when Greenfield's results will be released, one poll worker said she expected it to take at least 2 1/2 hours from the time the final absentee ballots are inserted into the ballot machines.

Updated 7:15 p.m.: While Patch does not know Greenfield's voter turnout yet, we do know the city's highest turnout in the last 20 years came in 1992 when 108 percent of registered voters hit the polls for the Bill Clinton defeated incumbent George Bush.

The city's lowest presidential turnout over that time? Four years later when Clinton defeated Bob Dole in a landslide. Only 79 percent of registered Greenfield voters turned out that year.

— David Cotey

Updated 6:15 p.m.: The potential aftermath of the presidential overvote issues has City Clerk Jennifer Goergen at least mildly concerned.

Goergen told Greenfield Patch Tuesday afternoon that the city ordered enough ballots for 110 percent of the registered voting population, and every time a voter spoils a ballot by voting for more than one candidate in a given race, the ballot pile dwindles a bit.

“We’ve tried to correct that,” Goergen said. “We don’t want that to happen a lot. We’re trying to give better instruction to the voters to avoid it.

“I think the big thing is voters slowing down and being careful before they move on to the next category.”

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Goergen said unless the city sees a major increase in on-site voter registration, it should have enough ballots. And if they don’t? Voters will have to fill out a photocopied ballot or a PDF paper ballot that would have to be hand-counted at the end of the night.

No other major issues other than some machine jams have been reported, said Goergen, who added turnout has been large and registration has been steady.

“I thought we’d have less (voters register) than we’ve been having,” Goergen said. “I don’t have any (registration) counts, but they’ve been busy.”

Goergen also reminded voters that if they are in line by 8 p.m. — either to vote or registering to vote — they will still be able to vote. However, end-of-line officers will be in place at 8 p.m.

— David Cotey

Updated at 6:04 p.m.:  Greenfield appears to have a case of attempted double voting. The election inspector at Greenfield Public Library, Jane Kuchler, tells Patch reporter Samantha Nash: "A lady came in and voted and then we also had an absentee envelope for her, which we had to reject the absentee envelope."

You can watch Kuchler's comments on video here along with other interviews at the Greenfield Library polling place.

— Jessica McBride

Updated 3:45 p.m.: Election official Denise Collins said voter registration at Whitnall High School is down a bit Tuesday, but she believes it’s probably because Wisconsinites have had a lot of opportunities to vote lately.

“It seems steady, but compared to the last presidential vote, I worked at that one as a registrar, and we were busy all day long. We didn’t get a breath of fresh air,” Collins said Tuesday afternoon. “Now, there are so many absentee votes. People pre-registered, they went to City Hall.

“And with all the other elections, more people had already done that. Look how many voting opportunities we’ve had.”

Collins said each poll worker is processing hundreds of absentee ballots Tuesday. Voters could turn in early ballots as late as 5 p.m. last Friday, and late in the week, nearly 25 percent of registered voters had done so.

“Normally, someone might have a few, or I might have 200 (for a ward) on a real busy day,” Collins said. “Now we have almost 500. It’s a painstaking project, but it’s worth it.”

Voting has been steady at WHS, Collins said. There was a long line first thing in the morning and the regular midday lull, which gave poll workers a chance to process absentee ballots.

At approximately 2:30 p.m., Ward 9 was already at 43 percent turnout, not including non-processed absentee ballots. Ward 10 was at 45 percent, again excluding absentee ballots.

And just like several polling areas across the Patch coverage area, Collins said Ward 9 also has experienced overvoting for president.

“Everyone that spits out of there (the machine), they’re overvoting,” she said. “(The ballot) is unclear. The overvotes are all there,” on the bottom half of the presidential candidates.

— David Cotey

Updated 3 p.m.: Several instances of overvoting have been reported around the Patch coverage area, including in Greenfield, with most of those cases involving someone voting for more than one candidate for president.

In Ward 10 at Whitnall High School, however, a poll worker said on six separate occasions someone both voted for Barack Obama and wrote-in Obama.

He said he asked poll workers from other wards if they had experienced anything similar and they had not.

— David Cotey

Updated 1:20 p.m.: Last week we took a look back at the 2008 election, when Barack Obama and Joe Biden won Greenfield with 10,012 votes, compared to John McCain and Sarah Palin's 9,723.

But in the previous two elections, Republican presidential candidates, specifically George W. Bush and his then-running mate Dick Cheney, carried Greenfield.

In 2004, Bush and Cheney outgained John Kerry and John Edwards, 10,900 to 9,588, and in 2000, the Bush/Cheney team defeated Al Gore and Joe Lieberman, 9,482-8,740.

— David Cotey

Updated: 12:30 p.m.: Greenfield City Clerk Jennifer Goergen told Patch poll workers have seen a steady stream of voters during the first 5 1/2 hours since the polls opened.

But she added workers are seeing a pair of problems cropping up — machine jams and overvoting."

"Our biggest obstacle has been the number of machine jams caused by absentee ballots," Goergen said. "So far our DPW has been able to fix all of the jams and voting was able to continue. The folds in the absentee ballots can cause machine jams."

Goergen said voters are also "spoiling ballots" by overvoting for candidates in the same office.

"Arguably, the ballot isn’t laid out as well as it could be to help differentiate where one office stops and another stops," Goergen said. "Thus, election workers are trying to explain to voters to watch for the different office sections when they see the title 'vote for one,' and so on."

Goergen added she expects to see a large voter turnout but she and her office had been anticipating that.

— David Cotey

Updated 10:30 a.m.: At the Greenfield Public Library, chief inspector Terri Delke said 227 people had voted at that location by 10 a.m. Tuesday, with people continuing to flow through the door.

There have been no problems at the polling location, Delke said, and staff have many absentee ballots to sift through and count. Delke didn't know how many voters to expect Tuesday, but said it will probably be a large amount.

"The clerk give us an estimate," she said. "She probably didn't want to scare us."

Voters at the library also said they encountered a smooth, wait-free voting process at the Greenfield library.

"It was very easy," voter Paulette Shanti said. "It was a very smooth process."

Voter Chris Houke said he also didn't have a problem at the location, but said he thought more people would be there.

"A lot more probably came this morning," he said. "And I'm sure there will be more people after they get off of work."

— Joe Petrie

Original story: Tuesday is Election Day in Greenfield and across the United States, and Patch has everything you need to know before you head to the polls in our Greenfield Election Central. 

If you need information on where to vote and who’s on the ballot you’ll find it here. And remember to check back throughout the day on Tuesday for updates from the polls and local results once the polls close at 8 p.m.

Be sure to bookmark this page for updates. We'll also have a live blog that you can participate in all day and night Tuesday (note: the blog will go live Tuesday afternoon), and a central page dedicated to all of the hot races in Wisconsin.

And if you're looking for some guidance as to how Greenfield voted in 2008, we've got that information too!

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Voting Info

• Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. 
• Sample Ballot: The state provides sample ballot information on its Voter Public Access website. Registered voters can enter their name and birthdate to see their voting history and a sample ballot.
• Polling Locations: There are six polling locations in Greenfield:

1. Glenwood Elementary School, 3550 S. 51st Street -- Wards 1-4
2. Greenfield Community Center, 7215 W. Cold Spring Rd. -- Wards 5-8
3. Whitnall High School, 5000 S. 116th St. -- Wards 9-12
4. Maple Grove Elementary School, 6921 W. Cold Spring Rd. -- Wards 13-15
5. Greenfield Public Library, 5310 W. Layton Ave. -- Wards 16-18 (Remember, the library will only be open to voters Tuesday and not for general business.)
6. Elm Dale Elementary School, 5300 S. Honey Creek Drive. -- Wards 19-21

• Registering to vote: If you have not yet registered to vote, yo can register at your polling place on Election Day
• Voter ID: Because of recent court rulings, Wisconsin's Voter ID law will not be enforced and you do not need an identification to vote. If you are registering to vote, you will need to bring a proof of residence. For more information on the Voter ID law, visit the state's election website.

Races

COUNTY:

• Milwaukee County district attorney, clerk, treasurer, register of deeds

STATE:

• 7th District — State Assembly
• 82nd District — State Assembly
• 84th District — State Assembly
• 28th District — State Senate

NATIONAL:

• 5th Congressional District
• US Senate
• President of the United States

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