Rescheduled Contests Megathread

[Duke of York]

Originally, I approved of DeWine's handling of the pandemic, but this is just ridiculous. public health is important, but so is the rule of law. He is openly defying a court order 11 hours before the polls are supposed to open. This is a dangerous precedent he is setting.

Lock him up.

He should be held in contempt of court and thrown in jail

Preview of what’s going to happen in November.

Oh what grounds?

[Duke of York]

The story I linked to earlier has been updated:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/04/03/tony-evers-calls-lawmakers-into-session-stop-person-voting/2940156001/

The GOP leaders instead criticized Evers for also calling for the election to move to May 19 — a reversal from pushing to keep the election date in place — and not asking them to take action before Friday.  

"Hundreds of thousands of workers are going to their jobs every day, serving in essential roles in our society. There’s no question that an election is just as important as getting take-out food," Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said in a statement.

But Fitzgerald and Vos had no answer to how local election officials are supposed to keep people safe as a massive shortage of poll workers has resulted in the closure or reduction of polling locations, forcing more people to vote at a single site. 

Milwaukee election officials said Friday they only had enough poll workers to open five voting locations for Tuesday's election, which could draw as many as 50,000 voters — putting thousands at risk of infection. 

This seems like a likely preview of what’ll happen in November, if the coronavirus is still enough of a risk to merit more voting by mail.  We’ve had threads here asking if Trump will use the coronavirus to try to delay the November election, but that seems backwards.  It’s in Trump’s interest to go ahead with the election so long as enough state legislatures don’t make it easier to vote by mail.  That’s because urban areas seem more likely to have coronavirus related problems with in-person voting like Milwaukee is having now than do rural areas, where GOP voters live in higher numbers.

Also worth noting that one reason why the GOP has a stronger interest in taking this stand in Wisconsin than they do in other states trying to delay primaries is that this election in Wisconsin isn’t just a primary.  It’s also a general election for judicial offices.  If it was just a primary, then the Wisconsin GOP wouldn’t have such incentives to block a delay in the election date.

It probably isnt going to be as big an issue in November as it is now

[Duke of York]

Does Evers have the right to do this or not?

Probably not, but it's still the right thing to do and it makes the Republican State Legislature and Supreme Court liable to anyone that gets sick and die.

The state is so gerrymandered they would have to lose the popular vote by 20 points to no longer have a majority