Voter turnout in the election Change_of_leadership was 57.8 percent , the highest for a gubernatorial election Change_of_leadership not on a presidential ballot in Wisconsin history .

The Jaybirds effectively disfranchised the African Americans in the county by using Using a `` whites-only '' ballot in preliminary party voting from 1889 until 1953 , when the United States Supreme Court ruled Control that this was unconstitutional .