Long lines of voters, many of them wearing face masks, stretched for blocks through Milwaukee early Tuesday as Wisconsin held its primary in the middle of a pandemic.
Republicans who have insisted on keeping the election on schedule won two legal battles Monday, as the state Supreme Court blocked Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' bid to delay it until June and the US Supreme Court reversed a lower court's ruling that gave voters six extra days to return their ballots by mail.
Every other state with an election scheduled for April postponed their contest or shifted it to by-mail voting only. But Monday's court decisions mean Wisconsin -- with 2,511 reported cases of coronavirus and 85 dead as of late Monday night -- is pressing forward, though votes won't be counted until at least April 13.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/wisconsin-primary-coronavirus/index.html
Republicans who have insisted on keeping the election on schedule won two legal battles Monday, as the state Supreme Court blocked Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' bid to delay it until June and the US Supreme Court reversed a lower court's ruling that gave voters six extra days to return their ballots by mail.
Every other state with an election scheduled for April postponed their contest or shifted it to by-mail voting only. But Monday's court decisions mean Wisconsin -- with 2,511 reported cases of coronavirus and 85 dead as of late Monday night -- is pressing forward, though votes won't be counted until at least April 13.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/wisconsin-primary-coronavirus/index.html
