BREAKING: Wisconsin Gov. Evers signs executive order suspending all in-person voting for Tuesday's primary and moves the date of the election to June 9.
for planning to go ahead with the Tuesday primary despite the coronavirus pandemic. Every other state that was supposed to hold a presidential primary contest in late March or April had postponed its election or switched to vote-by-mail, which left one of the most critical battleground states in the country alone in a deserted stretch of the electoral calendar.
The stakes are especially high in Wisconsin because the election is not just a presidential primary between former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., but also a general election for down-ballot offices, includingthat could influence voting rules in a state crucial to President Donald Trump’s reelection in November.
But Evers, as well as Republican legislative leaders, had resisted calls to move the election, prompting lawsuits, strains on election infrastructure and outcry that voters will have to choose between their health and their right to vote. Evers has said he's powerless to change the date of the election because it's set by state law and would require the Legislature to come back into session and act. On Friday,
ballot to every voter, as other states have done in response to the pandemic, but Republicans and nonpartisan experts said it would be difficult, if not impossible, to print and mail enough ballots on short notice.
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