Wisconsin voters brave long lines to vote in primary amid coronavirus outbreak

Wisconsin voters brave long lines to vote in primary amid coronavirus outbreak

Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, had issued an executive order to delay the election, following an urgent warning by mayors from Wisconsin’s largest cities that “hundreds of thousands of citizens at risk by requiring them to vote at the polls while this ugly pandemic spreads.” But, the move drew instant pushback from the GOP-controlled state legislature and was overturned on the eve of the primary by the Republican-dominated state Supreme Court.

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