"Voting is easy in Wisconsin. You can go do it today. Just go to your local clerk's office. You can vote today even if you've never voted before, even if you've never registered before," Obama said in the video.
This effort is part of the Obama campaign's push to get supporters to vote before election day. Absentee voting started in Wisconsin last week.
Obama supporter Cass Hanson voted at the Madison clerk's office Monday when a friend who works for the campaign told her the lines would be long on Election day. "I had to change my address anyway, so I figured I might as well vote," she said.
McCain is also doing his best to try and get his supporters to vote early by sending out tens of thousands of postcards containing instructions on absentee voting.
City Clerks expect there to be much more early voting than last year.
In other news, the Wisconsin State Journal, the state's second largest newspaper, is backing Barack Obama for president.
In an editorial published Sunday, the paper said Obama is the best leader to make America feel good about itself again and to improve relations with other countries.
In the 2004 election, the paper backed George W. Bush.
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