Wisconsin has ordered residents to stay at home, shuttered non-essential businesses, and banned 'all public and private gatherings of any number of people' — but is still planning to proceed with an election Tuesday amid the coronavirus crisis.
poll workers have since tested positive for COVID-19. Ohio abruptly canceled its primary also scheduled for that day.last month that"it's important that our democracy continues,” while Republicans have also favored pushing ahead with the election.
Instead, Evers on Friday called on state lawmakers to allow the state to send an absentee ballot to every voter, as other states have done in response to the pandemic, but Republicans and non-partisan experts said it would be difficult if not impossible to print and mail enough ballots on short notice.
The stalemate means the issue will now fall to a federal court, where a judge is expected to make a decision on several lawsuits, which have now been compiled together, in coming days."There is no safe way, in our opinion, of conducting an in-person election a week from now," said Debra Cronmiller, the executive director of the Wisconsin League of Women Voters, which joined with several large unions and civil rights organizations in suing to postpone the election.
And they warn that proceeding now could disenfranchise voters who live alone or lack a scanner or smartphone, since state law requires voters to get a signature from a witness and have an image on file of their ID to vote absentee.
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