The Wisconsin State Department of Health Services is tracking new COVID-19 cases that may have resulted from in-person voting last Tuesday, demanded by Rethuglican politicians and backed up by their Rethug-dominated Supreme Court (and the Rethug-dominated U.S. Supreme Court). Despite legal challenges by Dem Gov. Tony Evers to postpone the elections and to allow more time for absentee voting, the Rethuglican-controlled state legislature refused to alter the election despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Only five polling stations were open in the heavily Democratic city of Milwaukee, where there were lines to vote up to 4 hours long.
Wisconsin's reckless and power drunk Rethug politicians gave their constituents a choice: whether to maintain their health and stay home or line up and vote amid a pandemic. They made sure that the absentee ballot process was sufficiently hobbled and time-limited to suppress votes from people in urban, Dem-leaning areas. Their callous actions likely have caused new cases of coronavirus among the voters, and they have to be held accountable for that, either in a court of law or in November.
(photo: An elderly couple waits in a long line to vote in Milwaukee)
