Wisconsin Primary Recap: Voters Forced to Choose Between Their Health and Their Civic Duty

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Wednesday, 08 April 2020 08:15

Excerpt: "The state was the first to hold a major election with in-person voting since stay-at-home orders were widely instituted because of the coronavirus."

A poll worker collected ballots from voters outside Marshall High School in Milwaukee on Tuesday. (photo: Lauren Justice/NYT)

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Wisconsin Primary Recap: Voters Forced to Choose Between Their Health and Their Civic Duty

By The New York Times

08 April 20

The state was the first to hold a major election with in-person voting since stay-at-home orders were widely instituted because of the coronavirus.

n Milwaukee, citizens were forced to choose between following public health orders to stay home and stand in line for hours at one of just five polling places the city kept open amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Across the state along the St. Croix River, a state senator who is her county�s chief medical examiner brought a homemade face mask to the polls because she didn�t want to take a surgical mask from her co-workers who will have to inspect the bodies of people who die from the coronavirus.

And everywhere in between, Wisconsinites reported an array of problems with absentee ballots. Some didn�t arrive, some couldn�t be legally witnessed and others were afraid to venture outside their homes to return their ballots by Tuesday night�s deadline.

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