Milwaukee to help residents vote by mail after in-person primary leads to virus cases

[turbinetree]

Source: American Independent

By Emily Singer -April 22, 2020 11:41 AM

The new 'SafeVote' effort will help people cast a ballot while avoiding the dangers they experienced during the primary.

Every one of the roughly 300,000 registered voters in Milwaukee will receive an absentee ballot application in the mail, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported, helping to ensure voters will be able to cast a ballot in November's general election without having to risk their health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The move comes after Republicans in Wisconsin blocked Democratic Gov. Tony Evers from delaying the state's April 7 primary, forcing voters to violate a stay-at-home order and risk their health to cast in-person votes if they had not previously requested an absentee ballot.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the state's in-person voting sites were shuttered, meaning voters had to wait in hourslong lines to vote.

On top of that, Milwaukee's health commissioner has already tied at least seven cases of the novel coronavirus to the April 7 primary election so far.

Read more: https://americanindependent.com/milwaukee-absentee-ballots-application-mail-voting-coronavirus-wisconsin-2020-election-covid-19/

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basically telling the republican led supreme court and the republican led legislature.............to go pound sand good on Evers and Milwaukee mayor ............ .................now what is the legislature going to do sue.....................

[diva77]

1. K&R

would like to see Wisconsin citizens file a suit similar to what coalitionforgoodgovernance.org just filed

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213327944

[turbinetree]

2. That would be haul since the court is rigged, but they should go for it...............

[lagomorph777]

3. So the WI GOP partly succeeded. They did murder some voters, but lost the battle.

And they will lose bigger in November, now that voters have a taste of victory and even more reason to be enraged.

[turbinetree]

4. Yepper spot on...............

now they can look at the tv and actually see people that want to murder them and they are running the government and the courts and they want to kill them................

[Jimbo S]

5. No voters have died

No need for the hyperbole.

[lagomorph777]

7. Yet.

[riversedge]

6. Every one of the roughly 300,000 registered voters in Milwaukee will receive an absentee ballot appl

My guess is that Repubs will bring this to the WI supreme court controlled by Repugs. IMHO

.......Every one of the roughly 300,000 registered voters in Milwaukee will receive an absentee ballot application in the mail,

[lagomorph777]

8. Yep - but now WI SCROTUS is closer to balanced.

And the remaining Russiapublicans should be feeling the heat as a result!