All roads lead to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The town of cream and a fictional election disaster are the centerpieces of the latest episode of HBO’s hit show “Succession.” In Sunday’s episode, it’s election night on the fictional news network ATN. A fire at a Milwaukee ballot counting site adds to an already chaotic night for the show’s main characters. One hundred thousand ballot papers for the presidential election would have been destroyed. “In 1960 and in 2000, in 2016, these incredibly tight election moments continue to happen in the United States, so it seemed legitimate to have another one,” said executive producer Jesse Armstrong. said in the “Inside the Episode” supplement for HBO Max subscribers. Counting systems work. Jacobs said the episode incorrectly explained that the elections could not find out who managed to send or submit the mail-in ballots burned in the fire. “Our clerks, like the clerks in the city of Milwaukee, are able to scan the barcodes of all the mail-in ballot envelopes that come in. They do that, and it immediately goes into the computer system of the state. So we know which ballots came in pretty quickly after they arrived,” Jacobs said during the live interview on Tuesday. “Is that we would end up with some sort of modified deadline to resubmit the ballots or allow people to vote,” she said. “That would definitely be my hope because if that were to happen, we wouldn’t want to see 100,000 people completely disenfranchised.” There are only two episodes left in the latest season of “Succession.” The next episode airs Sunday, May 21 on HBO and HBO Max.
All roads lead to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The town of cream and a fictional election disaster are the centerpieces of the latest episode of HBO’s hit show “Succession.” In Sunday’s episode, it’s election night on the fictional news network ATN.
A fire at a Milwaukee ballot counting site adds to an already chaotic night for the show’s main characters. One hundred thousand ballot papers for the presidential election would have been destroyed.
“As in 1960 and 2000, in 2016 these incredibly tight election moments continue to play out in the United States, so it seemed legitimate to have another,” executive producer Jesse Armstrong said in the “Inside the Episode” for HBO Max subscribers.
On Monday, Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Ann Jacobs tweeted her analysis of the storyline and explained on 12 News at 4 that the show’s writers were accurate in their description of how the “central counting” systems of the election work. Wisconsin.
Jacobs said the episode incorrectly explained that the elections could not find out who managed to send or submit the mail-in ballots burned in the fire.
“Our clerks, like the clerks in the city of Milwaukee, are able to scan the barcodes of all the mail-in ballot envelopes that come in. They do that, and it immediately goes into the computer system of the state. So we know which ballots arrived fairly soon after they arrived,” Jacobs said in the live interview on Tuesday.
She said if there was an actual fire at a ballot counting facility and the ballots were destroyed, a court would likely decide what happens to voters who cast their ballots.
“I suspect we would end up with some sort of modified deadline to resubmit ballots or allow people to vote,” she said. “That would certainly be my hope because if that were to happen we wouldn’t want to see 100,000 people completely disenfranchised.”
There are only two episodes left in the final season of “Succession”. The next episode will air Sunday, May 21 on HBO and HBO Max.