Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks governor's effort to delay primary

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Gov. Tony Evers (D) cannot delay the state’s presidential primary scheduled for Tuesday, despite fears about the coronavirus pandemic.

The 4-2 court ruling overturned Evers’s emergency order issued earlier Monday calling for the primary to be postponed, after Wisconsin Republicans filed a lawsuit challenging it.

At least two local government leaders as of Monday afternoon have ordered a cancelation of in-person voting, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks governor's effort to delay election

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday overturned Gov.

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Of course this is an awful idea and will lead to the death and illness of many Americans.

Anything to murder democrats.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Do you always talk in extremes? Saying this isn't Spanish Flu all over again is equal to saying you know more than any doctor?

"Republicans are pure evil" "an asteroid crashing into Earth = a virus" "Everyone who supports X is so in so...."

Because you just don't get it. You saying "this sets a dangerous precedent", when the alternative is to expose tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people to a very contagious, potentially deadly disease. All they had to do was postpone the election a few months. But no, you say that sets a dangerous precedent, and are willing to concede the hundreds (or more) of deaths this will result in just to stick with that precedent. If your parents or grandparents decided to vote and got exposed and ended up dying, you'd be okay with it, right?

Health professionals, including doctors, are saying that they did a dangerous and stupid thing by not delaying the election. They claim the virus is pretty bad. You are the one saying they are wrong. Since you are saying they are wrong, you must have a medical degree, or your statement is completely invalid

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

Because you just don't get it. You saying "this sets a dangerous precedent", when the alternative is to expose tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people to a very contagious, potentially deadly disease. All they had to do was postpone the election a few months. But no, you say that sets a dangerous precedent, and are willing to concede the hundreds (or more) of deaths this will result in just to stick with that precedent. If your parents or grandparents decided to vote and got exposed and ended up dying, you'd be okay with it, right?

Health professionals, including doctors, are saying that they did a dangerous and stupid thing by not delaying the election. They claim the virus is pretty bad. You are the one saying they are wrong. Since you are saying they are wrong, you must have a medical degree, or your statement is completely invalid

"I" never said it does anything about precedent. I merely laughed at your extremism. Idk if you're just screwing with ppl or for real, but it doesn't matter. Enjoy the thread

 

[Sped Xing]

"Fuck rule of law! There's potential danger!"

 

[Absolutego]

We haven't had to socially isolate three times in the last decade. COVID is way different than the others due to how contagious it is. How many times in the last decade have poll workers had to wear biohazard suits to prevent infection?

Like I said, if you think it's gonna stay that way you haven't actually been hearing the immunologists whose opinion you're so fond of referencing without sourcing. Giving the government the power to suspend elections the minute some entity like the WHO or CDC declare a pandemic means elections pop out of existence with increasing frequency every time there's an illness.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Like I said, if you think it's gonna stay that way you haven't actually been hearing the immunologists whose opinion you're so fond of referencing without sourcing. Giving the government the power to suspend elections the minute some entity like the WHO or CDC declare a pandemic means elections pop out of existence with increasing frequency every time there's an illness.

So you think it's okay to put potentially hundreds of thousands of people in danger just to not set a precedence? If your mom or dad dies from it, that's a small price to pay, right?

 

[Absolutego]

lmao @ bringing up my family, you are the most stereotypical self-appointed hall monitor during this pandemic. No, I'm not going to let the government shut down literally everything over something that same government is busy warning us is going to be routine going forward. No way in hell am I gonna give them that excuse. Especially regarding something as critical to maintaining the government's legitimacy as elections.

 

[OnMoTi]

All they had to do was postpone the election a few months.

And people are rightfully asking why Governor (D)umbfuck didn't attempt to do that when the Ching Chong Ding Dong Wuhan Kung Flu China Virus first appeared instead of waiting until the day before the election.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

lmao @ bringing up my family, you are the most stereotypical self-appointed hall monitor during this pandemic. No, I'm not going to let the government shut down literally everything over something that same government is busy warning us is going to be routine going forward. No way in hell am I gonna give them that excuse. Especially regarding something as critical to maintaining the government's legitimacy as elections.

You seem okay with others dying, but not your family? That's fucked up dude. They weren't talking about getting rid of the election, but just delaying it two months. There's a huge difference there. This is a once in a lifetime pandemic (hopefully). I mean, the governor also ordered shit closed down, yet people don't seem to be "BUT IT SETS A BAD PRECEDENT!!!11!!" about that.

Since you asked for a source, here's an ER doctor saying it will lead to deaths: https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/e-r-doctor-says-in-person-election-will-likely-lead-to-deaths/ But as long as they aren't your relatives, right?

You say it is critical to maintaining the government's legitimacy", yet you want people to risk dying to do it rather than extend it two months? Come on, you can't be this stupid

And people are rightfully asking why Governor (D)umbfuck didn't attempt to do that when the Ching Chong Ding Dong Wuhan Kung Flu China Virus first appeared instead of waiting until the day before the election.

I agree, he should've done it sooner. However, just blocking it is fucking stupid and is going to lead to needless deaths. Although even if he had done it sooner, the Republicans would've still bitched about it because they want that supreme court seat and don't care if the plebs die.

 

[TowinKarz]

Voting isn't cumpulsory, if you feel it's dangerous, stay home..... and this affects eveyrone, it's not like this is some kind of genetically-engineered virus that only targets Republicans... or Democrats, or minorities...

Look, the state can't guarantee you're going to be safe from WuFlu any more than they can say for certain you won't get hit by a truck on your way to a poll on a beautiful and clear day in 2024..... the unlucky number just came up this time and your election is being held in the midst of a mess.... the integrity of not being able to call off an election at the last second, even if due to legit health concerns, is more important than the possibly unwanted result of a depressed-turnout. Really. It is. And the method used to call if off was, well, illegal. It's not the courts job to bend the law to make up for lack of planning on the party's part. Emergency on your part you had no contingency for doesn't mean you get to just rewrite the laws in the name of expediency.

I'm with the majority here and can easily see future elections being delayed due to bullshit emergency orders by machine-backed governors if this is allowed "Just this once" It will NEVER be "just this once".

Hey, we're 20 points behind, if that election is held today, we lose big time! What's that, one of our counties out on the very very fringe is having a wildfire problem? OOPS! STATEWIDE EMERGENCY DECLARED- ALL ELECTIONS POSTPONED UNTIL IT'S OVER! how long? Who knows? Even if they get it under control today, we have to be sure there's no more fires springing up! Why this could last 6 to 10 months! No, it's not a power-grab, we have precedent for this, the 2020 election was called off too!

Nobody is going to DIE as a direct result of this election's results, therefore nobody needs to risk dying if they don't want to to go vote, it's as simple as that.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Lol no state supreme court would ever rule in favor of delaying an election. Especially not in a now meaningless primary which would likely see little turnout even if there wasn't a virus. They can try to get the U.S Supreme Court to issue a writ of certiorari, but I would suspect that it would be completely ignored. This, and I have no idea what Wisconsin state law says about it, but when it comes to federal laws any alterations made to elections are within the powers of the legislative branch, not the executive branch.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/election-debacle-backfires-wisconsin-republicans-n1183356

Lol they tried to suppress the vote so they could retain their state supreme court seat and they still lost.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Lol they tried to suppress the vote so they could retain their state supreme court seat and they still lost.

Saying you need to get the vote in by the day of the vote is voter suppression?

The USA is odd.

 

[Duke Nukem]

I was talking about mortality but the rest are more or less dead inside too

But fam don't you know that Necro-Americans are our biggest voting bloc? Calling them "dead" is RACIST and INSENSITIVE

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Saying you need to get the vote in by the day of the vote is voter suppression?

The USA is odd.

Making people vote when they could die of a pandemic because you want the higher population areas not to vote is definitely suppression

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Making people vote when they could die of a pandemic because you want the higher population areas not to vote is definitely suppression

That’s the choice of the Dems. They could have posponed. They did not.

Submitting a postal vote within time is not hard. Requesting one is not hard either. Heck, ask for one just in case. You never know what can happen after all

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

That’s the choice of the Dems. They could have posponed. They did not.

Submitting a postal vote within time is not hard. Requesting one is not hard either. Heck, ask for one just in case. You never know what can happen after all

Except a lot of people didn't get their ballot on time. It's not the fault of the Dems, they tried to postpone it. The Republicans blocked it

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Except a lot of people didn't get their ballot on time. It's not the fault of the Dems, they tried to postpone it. The Republicans blocked it

Ah, my mistake.

I heard the Dems wanted it but wanted to extend the deadline. The Republicans said no to that. Because allowing votes past the deadline is a silly idea.

How do you not get your ballots on time? Aren't yourpostal ballots sent out like a month before?

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

They did? Don't remember hearing that. All I heard was they said it could go ahead, not that it needed to. And that they would not accept ballots past the deadline.

Yep. Democrats wanted to postpone the election until June 9, or at the very least allow longer for absentee ballots. Republicans blocked it because they wanted the Madison and Milwaukee areas (areas hit hardest by the virus and areas most likely to vote Democrat) to not vote because of the state supreme court being on the ballot. Plan backfired, which is even funnier

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Yep. Democrats wanted to postpone the election until June 9, or at the very least allow longer for absentee ballots. Republicans blocked it because they wanted the Madison and Milwaukee areas (areas hit hardest by the virus and areas most likely to vote Democrat) to not vote because of the state supreme court being on the ballot. Plan backfired, which is even funnier

Or maybe they didn't want to open the gateway to being able to unilaterally postpone elections to manipulate results when they had months to discuss contingency plans for this situation, you exceptional individual. Have you considered that you and the git that can hardly keep her composure as a news anchor are incapable of understanding precedent and additionally project your own cold and calculating natures onto others?

...wait, why am I asking that?

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Or maybe they didn't want to open the gateway to being able to unilaterally postpone elections to manipulate results when they had months to discuss contingency plans for this situation, you exceptional individual.

Lol that you actually believe that. Would you like to buy the Brooklyn Bridge? I got a good deal for you.

Other states postponed their elections just fine.