MILWAUKEE, UNITED STATES (NYTIMES) - Wisconsin voters will face a choice between protecting their health and exercising their civic duty on Tuesday (April 7) after state Republican leaders, backed up by a conservative majority on the state's Supreme Court, rebuffed the Democratic governor's attempt to postpone in-person voting in their presidential primary and local elections.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MILWAUKEE, UNITED STATES - Wisconsin voters will face a choice between protecting their health and exercising their civic duty on Tuesday after state Republican leaders, backed up by a conservative majority on the state's Supreme Court, rebuffed the Democratic governor's attempt to postpone in-person voting in their presidential primary and local elections.
The governor had issued an executive order postponing in-person voting and extending to June the deadline for absentee ballots. But Republican leaders succeeded in getting the state's top court to stay the decree. On the surface, it was exceedingly high drama for what amounts to a seemingly foreordained Democratic primary vote between the likely nominee, former vice-president Joe Biden, and Senator Bernie Sanders, who trailed substantially in a recent Wisconsin poll; some local contests; and a general election for a seat on the state Supreme Court now held by a conservative.
What's more, the state Supreme Court contest is no small matter: The winner could play a pivotal role in deciding a partisan fight over a Republican-supported move to purge voters from the state rolls, which could greatly affect the November election results in a tightly contested battleground state that was central to President Donald Trump's 2016 victory.
As countless Republican investigations over the years have failed to produce proof of widespread, in-person voter fraud, Democrats have asserted that the Republicans' main goal was to reduce voting by those from expanding portions of the electorate - people of colour and the young - who tend to vote for Democrats over Republicans.
Mr Justin Clark, a senior lawyer on Mr Trump's campaign, accused Democrats of seeking to"redesign the entire US election system" with proposals for"one-size-fits-all federal legislation," which he called"irresponsible." Mr Trump, who registered to vote by mail in the Florida primary, appeared to be referring to the proposed expansion of early voting when he complained that Democrats"had things in there about election days," which he called"totally crazy."
Mr Clark, the Trump campaign counsel, said Republicans would fight moves by Democrats to push provisions that would allow door-to-door canvassers to collect unlimited numbers of absentee ballots, which he called"ballot harvesting."
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