Supreme Court blocks extended absentee voting in Wisconsin primary
Source: Chanel 3000 News
MADISON, Wis. The U.S. Supreme Court blocked a plan to extend absentee voting in Wisconsins spring primary by six days because of the coronavirus.
The Wisconsin election is being viewed as a national test case in a broader fight over voter access.
The Supreme Courts decision came shortly after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-2 on Monday that Evers lacked the authority to move the election on his own.
Read more: https://www.channel3000.com/supreme-court-blocks-extended-absentee-voting-in-wisconsin-primary/
Gothmog
(145,152 posts)lark
(23,097 posts)This is to choose a Dem candidate, so they want everyone to have to vote in person and risk their lives and they are ok with the old poll workers getting sick and dying for rw purposes. I am assuming it's just the Dem primary as it was here in FL, if not and there are repugs on the ballot, well, they are ok with killing everyone to get the Dems.
idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)texasfiddler
(1,990 posts)a State Supreme Court Judge. The fewer the voters the more likely the right wing judge wins. That is my cynical thought. Hope Im wrong
idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)Gothmog
(145,152 posts)Link to tweet
Mayors from many of the most-populated cities in the state wrote a letter to the states top health official on Sunday asking that the elections be shut down.
We need you to step up and stop the State of Wisconsin from putting hundreds of thousands of citizens at risk by requiring them to vote at the polls while this ugly pandemic spreads, read the letter signed by ten mayors. The letter finished with, the lives of our constituents depend on it [suspending physical voting].
bluestarone
(16,920 posts)I thought the SC had NO say in how the state runs their election?
unblock
(52,205 posts)you may recall the supreme court even intervened in how florida handled its recount in bush v. gore.
bluestarone
(16,920 posts)When it works in THEIR favor! SAD!
Miguelito Loveless
(4,465 posts)Watch them vote 5-4 in his favor in a complete reversal.
spudspud
(511 posts)riversedge
(70,198 posts)iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)the postponement simply because Evers is a democratic governor.
More voter suppression by the rethugs.
Igel
(35,300 posts)It didn't help this case that the legislature considered and opted not to change the date (when the Constitution leaves this up to the states) and that the WI supreme court also opted not to move the date.
That left absentee ballots. SCOTUS didn't so much block as not mandate--there's a not so subtle difference. If I ask the court to do something and they decline, it's hardly blocking; I think of blocking as asking the court to *stop* something from happening.
It doesn't help that there's opposition and polarization worked in there. On the other hand, it's also true when the (R) governor of OH postponed the elections, there were people saying he did it just because he was (R) and he shouldn't have. That's the power of being politically ODD.
ancianita
(36,033 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)And named as such in the United States Constitution, and it must say in the Constitution that these two crimes the punishment is mandatory life imprisonment or death.
Gothmog
(145,152 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)Snellius
(6,881 posts)When partisan loyalty trumps human survival you know we have as much to worry about from some fellow Americans as from the killer plague.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,421 posts)This is crazy.
Trial court: you can vote early by mail now this way.
People do this.
Appellate court: no, you can't.
People who did this? Can't fix it. Followed the rules, now totally disenfranchised.
WI seems like an electoral basketcase right now.
Link to tweet
Greybnk48
(10,167 posts)Lines are up to seven blocks long.
My son and others we know never got their requested absentee ballots and the clerk at our Appleton City Hall said it was an "oversight" and if he wanted to vote, it would have to be in person today.
bluestarone
(16,920 posts)Please say that could happen! PLEASE?