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Wisconsin governor orders stop to in-person voting on eve of election

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  1. skybrian
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    From the article: [...]

    From the article:

    Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued a last-minute order halting in-person voting in his state on Tuesday, plunging the Democratic presidential primary and state and local elections into uncertainty amid deep concerns about the spread of coronavirus.

    State Republicans immediately announced they would go to the Wisconsin Supreme Court to challenge Evers' order, which seeks to push voting until June 9.

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    Ever's executive order suspends in-person voting until June 9, "unless the Legislature passes and the Governor approves a different date for inperson voting." Evers also called the state legislature back for a special session on Tuesday to "consider and act upon legislation to set a new in-person voting date for the 2020 Spring election."

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    joplin
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    So what's the Republicans' end game here? At this point, the Democratic nominee for the President has been decided already, right? If Dems don't get to vote in the primary, what does that get...

    So what's the Republicans' end game here? At this point, the Democratic nominee for the President has been decided already, right? If Dems don't get to vote in the primary, what does that get Republicans? Is this entirely about the state supreme court vote:

    they do have a competitive state Supreme Court election on Tuesday.

    By not moving the election, aren't they risking that Republicans also won't want to go out and risk getting COVID-19 just to cast a vote for a state Supreme Court judge? (I'm sure they're pushing this as a way to locally overturn Roe v. Wade, but how many will risk actually show up for that given the ~50 years of it not being successfully overturned?) Seems like a big stretch, and extremely irresponsible.

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      moonbathers
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      Republican policy in Wisconsin hasn't been about being responsible in my lifetime. Some of their greatest hits include: a Supreme Court justice choking another Supreme Court justice and then...

      Republican policy in Wisconsin hasn't been about being responsible in my lifetime. Some of their greatest hits include:

      • a Supreme Court justice choking another Supreme Court justice and then winning re-election
      • that re-election was won by seven thousand votes after election officials in one of the most Republican counties in the country happened to find about that many votes that hadn't been tallied before
      • trying to change the Wisconsin Idea, which has been the bedrock idea of the state's university system for over a hundred years and an ideal I consider sacred, to be about preparing graduates for the workforce. The Idea states that the university system should serve every corner of the state in its pursuit of knowledge.
      • the god-awful Foxconn deal that resulted in a bunch of people losing their homes to eminent domain, Foxconn making a bunch of money and I'm pretty sure a negligible amount of jobs were actually "created"
      • not honoring their end of the rail contract that the previous Democratic government had signed, resulting in the state getting sued for the entire amount of the project and the trains going elsewhere
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      1. joplin
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        Wow! That's quite the legacy! Thanks for the info.

        Wow! That's quite the legacy! Thanks for the info.

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      skybrian
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      I don't know much about Wisconsin politics, but I think this might also be about other local elections?

      I don't know much about Wisconsin politics, but I think this might also be about other local elections?

      Evers' executive order also extends the term of local and state officials serving in offices that were due to be elected on Tuesday. Hundreds of local elections were up on Tuesday, along with a contested state Supreme Court seat.

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      1. joplin
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        Ah, interesting. OK. I missed that part.

        Ah, interesting. OK. I missed that part.

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      Kuromantis
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      Presumably yes but less so because Republicans are more rural they would feel less afraid of the Coronavirus and more willing to vote.

      By not moving the election, aren't they risking that Republicans also won't want to go out and risk getting COVID-19 just to cast a vote for a state Supreme Court judge?

      Presumably yes but less so because Republicans are more rural they would feel less afraid of the Coronavirus and more willing to vote.

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      1. joplin
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        Fair point. I'm sure they've done the math.

        Fair point. I'm sure they've done the math.

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