Tuesday was a very controversial election day in Wisconsin — but it's not election night until after 4 p.m. Monday.

U.S. District Judge William Conley last week ordered clerks to not report results of Wisconsin's April 7 election until after 4 p.m. April 13 — the deadline for absentee ballots to be received.

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State election officials didn't want clerks to start reporting unofficial returns on April 7, when only a portion of ballots would have been counted. Conley had also extended the due date for voters to submit their ballots, in an attempt to make voting by mail easier during the coronavirus pandemic.

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The U.S. Supreme Court later overturned much of Conley's ruling, and required absentee ballots to be postmarked by Tuesday to be counted. But the prohibition on releasing results remained.

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Thousands of people received their absentee ballots in the mail at the last minute — while others say they never received them.

As of Thursday, the Wisconsin Election Commission reported more than 200,000 absentee ballots sent to voters had not been reported as returned.

And more than 12,000 absentee ballots requested by voters were never reported as sent to them, according to the election commission’s data.

A portion of this gap could be a lag in local clerks’ reporting of the data to the state system tracking absentee ballot numbers, the election commission said.

Issues with undelivered ballots were discovered in Oshkosh and Appleton, Milwaukee and Fox Point.

On Thursday, U.S. Sens. Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson called for an investigation into missing absentee ballots in the state.

Of the more than 1,290,000 requested absentee ballots, the state election commission said more than 1,278,000 were reported as sent to voters and more than 1,042,000 ballots were reported as returned to clerks.

Tuesday's election decided the results of a Supreme Court race, Milwaukee mayor, Milwaukee County executive and many other local races. It also was the presidential primary, though Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the Democratic race Wednesday, leaving former Vice President Joe Biden as the de facto Democratic nominee.

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