Johnson invited Vance to tour the city’s election operations during the vice president’s July 8 visit to Milwaukee. Get a daily rundown of the Milwaukee stories“Maybe Senator Baldwin and I can do it together,” he said. Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Paulina Gutiérrez said the city received only 20 mailed ballots on the April election day, despite regularly contacting postal officials throughout the day. Baldwin said the timing is particularly troubling given Trump’s attacks on by-mail voting and other federal attempts to intervene in state election administration. For the August election, Gutiérrez said Milwaukee had issued approximately 25,000 absentee ballots and received about 12,000 as of Friday.