Reports from primary voting in Wisconsin.
The country may be in lockdown, but Cheryl and Terrence Moore — black natives of the Deep South — felt there was no more important place to be Tuesday than their polling site, in surgical masks and latex gloves, voting in Wisconsin’s fiercely disputed primary.
“After the polls taxes and the poll tests, the lynchings and attack dogs, our ancestors dying and people putting their lives at risk at every opportunity, not to do our part because of a virus?” said Terrence Moore, 50, a pastor and business development coordinator at a Milwaukee neighborhood chamber of commerce.
“I would betray that legacy by staying home,” said the former South Carolinian, who waited 2 1/2 hours with his wife to cast their ballots at the city’s Riverside University High School. “It would be a dishonor not to honor them in this capacity.”
The Moores said they weren’t the only ones who considered it their responsibility to turn out Tuesday, pandemic or no.
The diversity of those in line with them — black, white, Latino, Asian American, young, old, Democrat, independent, Republican — showed they were undeterred and united in purpose. “No one talked about what side they were on,” said Terrence Moore.
Los Angeles Times.
Stirring, lovely, and irrelevant to the obvious problem. Take 180 polling stations in a largely Democratic city and divide by 36. One station in 36 remains open. Clearly, some will not be able to vote in those circumstances. Not rocket science.
The only way Rethug candidates can win is by cheating. Which is why they fought the election postponement tooth and nail in court.
You seem to overlook common sense and the facts.
No one “ cheated”. The Governor delayed trying to move the date and got caught by the Wisconsin laws. And the courts followed the law.
If election law is to be changed it has to be done by the Legislature not by Courts.
Oh and one other observation. The primary set a record for absentee ballots so a lot of voters saw what was unfolding and reacted by getting absentee ballots.
Voting is a responsibility and takes a little work to do it correctly.
I’d say the Wisconsin voters did pretty well.
SCOTUS changed what the law says to something else.
Courts have been redirecting elections for a while now, as happened earlier this season.
And... the primary set a record for number of absentee ballots requested.
They set a record for number of absentee ballots not sent out promptly or received by the voters on a timely basis.
They also seem likely to have set a record for number of absentee ballots not received back by the clerks.
You have done an excellent job faking caring.
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