Robin Vos, the Republican Speaker of Wisconsin's state assembly, encouraged voters to head to the polls while wearing personal protective equipment.
Robin Vos, the Republican speaker of Wisconsin’s state Assembly, urged voters to head to the polls Tuesday while wearing full personal protective equipment, assuring them, “You are incredibly safe to go out.”
In an interview with the Journal Times, Vos, who was serving as an elections inspector, told Wisconsin residents it was perfectly safe to vote and it “made no sense to cancel the election.” Vos was working the polls and said the election needed to be held in April because there were chances things could be worse in May or June. In addition to the Democratic presidential primary, Wisconsin voters were casting ballots for a state Supreme Court seat, one of those currently held by a conservative justice.
After the Wisconsin state court struck down Evers’s executive order, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling of its own, with the five conservative justices reversing a lower court that had granted voters six additional days to turn in absentee ballots. Wisconsin Republicans and the Republican National Committee had appealed that ruling. More Wisconsin voters requested absentee ballots this year than ever before — around 1.
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