Posted on 03/30/2020 11:00:49 PM PDT by Libloather
Wisconsin officials are moving forward with holding the planned April 7 presidential primary election as reported cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, continue to mount in the state.
As of Monday morning, the Wisconsin Department of Health reported 1,157 confirmed cases and 19 deaths from COVID-19, a massive increase over the 32 cases that were reported in the state two weeks ago on March 15.
Nine other states set to hold primary elections in the rest of March and April, including Georgia, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, and the six mid-Atlantic states which planned to vote on the April 28 "Acela primary" day have now moved to postpone their elections until May or June.
But Wisconsin, which allocates 84 pledged delegates in the Democratic presidential primary and is holding numerous other down-ballot elections, is proceeding with its April 7 election, even as Gov. Tony Evers issued a "Safer at Home" order banning gatherings of more than 10 people through April 24.
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florida won’t be able to because gatherings are banned and people get arrested for gathering- just ask the pastor that was just arrested-
Poll numbers are gonna be WAY down if the Dump-a-craps can bring only 10 dead people in at a time
Who won the Wisconsin demonicRAT primary next week?
But, listening to the media continue to add the "confirmed" cases, you'd think that nobody ever recovers. They either die or they're going to spend the rest of their lives in a hospital bed on a respirator.
None of this matters to the Republican Party because Trump was sure to win the primary. But this will create chaos in the Marxocrat ranks because the ability of the people to appear to vote for their candidate of choice has been destroyed. The question now is who will the Marxocrat candidate be after the convention? And will enough Marxocrats accept the manipulated rigged outcome to show up to vote in the November election?
The biggest issue on the 7th is the Wis supreme court race.
I have already voted.
If people can go to a grocery story, they can go to a polling place.
Yes indeed. Critical race.
Which is why I don’t get why rat Governor Evers isn’t on board with trying to postpone it, low turnout should be ideal for us.
Unfortunately some federal judge has decreed they are to count absentee ballots that are postmarked as much as 6 days late.
Politics1 had an article claiming Evers would have to get the GOP legislature to go along with changing the date and they wouldn’t. Let the Demonrats bellyache about it. They just want to steal the State Supreme Court race.
I think the REST of the state, outside of Madistan and Milwaukeestan, has pretty much HAD IT with the Libs in our state. President Trump if proving, daily, how important it is that we at least have the Judiciary on our side to thwart the CANCER that is Socialism.
I’m expecting people to vote like they always do, and with the higher rates of disease in the two places I mentioned, turnout might be down in those areas - though CHEATING might go up.
IOW, I have NO idea how this will shake out. But, I will crawl over broken glass to vote for Judge Kelly on Tuesday. :)
I live very rural - we’ll have maybe 100 people show up to vote and the same few retired ladies will be running the show. Our poll is open. We ‘Cow Townies’ ain’t afraid of the sniffles! Now, if this were an outbreak of Hoof & Mouth Disease in the livestock, it would be a different story, LOL!
Last weekend, I saw a chart with the percentage of absentee-ballot requested (or maybe it was absentee-ballots returned), and BY FAR the highest rates were in the GOP suburban strongholds of Waukesha, Ozoukee and Washington Counties (known as the “WOW Counties”). When I saw that, I thought “Gov. Evers will find a way to postpone that election, because the Leftist Supreme Court candidate is about to get crushed by the conservative (Scott Walker-appointed) incumbent.”
Evers should have postponed the election unilaterally and let people sue; even if the courts ruled against him, he’d at least save face with his Leftist base (and even many non-Leftists would give him credit for “acting to protect Wisconsinites from COVID-19”). But he didn’t, and we should win big on Tuesday.
Did the federal judge really extend by a week the deadline for *postmarking* absentee ballots? I thought that he merely had extended by a week the deadline for the arrival of absentee ballots that had been postmarked by election day. But given that the perceived problem is not that the mail takes longer than usual, but that the state has been late in mailing out absentee ballots in the first place, what you said makes more sense (although I don’t see how a federal judge gets off waiving deadlines established by state law that have been in place for years).
Yeah, it’s not clear to me.
Maybe it means the ballot can be post-marked after election day so long as they arrive by the 6th day after?
Anyway, update: Evers called a special session of the leg for today (Sat) to postpone the election, GOP state leg is expected to tell him to go screw himself.
They had appealed the court ruling, the 7th Circuit has upheld the 6 day thing but overturned another part of the ruling lifting the requirement to have a witnesses signature.
But there is some WTF to the appellate ruling
“[W]e have every reason to believe the Commission, in keeping with the forward-leaning action it has taken thus far to accommodate voters’ interests while also striving to ensure their safety, will continue to consider yet other ways for voters to satisfy the statutory signature requirement (if possible, for example, by maintaining the statutory presence requirement but not requiring the witness’s physical signature). It is best to leave these decisions and any more particular prescriptions to the Commission.”
How can you prove there was a witness if you don’t require a signature? The court seems to be saying “We can’t violate this particular requirement but you go ahead, election commission”. Truly bizarre.
The original ruling also banned the reporting of results until 6 days after which makes no sense to me. It appears this survived the appeal.
From thr article that Injust read, the Appeals Court ruled only on whether to stay the District Judge’s decision, not on the merits.’ But the election is Tuesday, so I think that, in practical terms, it’s a distinction without a difference.
SCOTUS (in a 5-4 decision; guess the 4 dissenters) bitchslaps the activist District Court judge who had extended date for mailing in ballots for a week. https://mobile.twitter.com/AHoweBlogger/status/1247302256086507520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3APolitics1com%7Ctwcon%5Etimelinechrome&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politics1.com%2F
This came a few hours after the WI Supreme Court (in a 4-2 ruling with one recusal (who happened to be on the ballot tomorrow); again, guess the two dissenters) had struck down Gov. Evers’s unconstitutional attempt to extend the date for returning ballots until June 2.
So a great day for the rule of law. And with the absentee-voting numbers that I saw late last week from the WOW counties as compared to Dane and Milwaukee Counties, I think that conservative Justice Kelly will be elected by a relatively comfortable margin tomorrow.
Here’s a pretty good synopsis of the SCOTUS per curiam opinion and the RBG dissent: https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/04/justices-block-extension-of-absentee-ballot-deadline-in-wisconsin/
Excellent, Evers tried the same tactic as DeWine (last minute lawless decree) but DeWine was cleverer in doing in in the middle of the night.
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