Voting tomorrow will limp along at the few polling places available where both poll workers and voters are willing to risk coronavirus infection
Governor Tony Evers was thwarted in attempting to pull a DeWine and stop in-person voting. Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP/Shutterstock/Copyright 2019 Shutterstock. No use without permission.
Evers’s order came after protracted efforts by him to negotiate with, or pressure, legislators to postpone the primary — or at least to facilitate voting-by-mail by mailing all registered voters a ballot. The order also contradicted his earlier claim he did not have the authority to change election rules without legislative concurrence, and was apparently modeled on Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s more successful last-minute action to shut down that state’s primary on March 17.
There is some evidence suggesting that Republicans stand to gain if much of the state is unable to vote in Tuesday’s election. Next to the presidential primary, where polls show that former Vice President Joe Biden is likely to trounce his remaining primary opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders , the most important race on the ballot Tuesday is a state Supreme Court race between incumbent Justice Daniel Kelly and challenger Judge Jill Karofsky.
While the state Supreme Court decision appears to determine when the primary officially begins, a different Republican appeal to a different court may determine when it ends. Federal district court judge William Conley ruled late last week that the state had to keep absentee ballot voting open through April 13, given the dangers associated with in-person voting, and the big backlog of absentee ballot requests that election officials were not able to handle before the primary.
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