This interesting article by Eric Litke is published by PolitiFact:

Facing an unprecedented influx of absentee ballots during a presidential election in the middle of a pandemic, the Madison clerk came up with a novel idea. Instead of making voters come to them, they’d go to the voters.

“It was an invention of necessity,” said Madison City Attorney Michael Haas. “City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl thought of the idea while she was walking her dog and thinking about the absentee ballot challenges. There was a record number of absentee ballots issued and there were well publicized concerns about (U.S. Postal Service) delivery of ballots. The last straw was that the secure drop boxes ordered by the City were delayed by a couple of weeks.”

The result was “Democracy in the Park,” a pair of events Sept. 26 and Oct. 3, 2020, where more than 17,000 voters dropped off absentee ballots at stations set up in Madison’s 206 city parks. The events were staffed by poll workers who had either worked in the past or were scheduled to work the Nov. 3 election, each of whom was sworn in as an election inspector.

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