The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on Wisconsin’s upcoming statewide election, one of the only presidential primaries still scheduled in April The state is facing a huge shortage in poll workers ahead of Tuesday’s vote
who say the country is already running out of time to prepare for holding the November election amid a pandemic.
But as Americans adopt social distancing to slow the spread of coronavirus, nearly 60 percent of Wisconsin’s municipalities are reporting a shortage of poll workers,from the administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. More than 100 jusriditictions said they lack the ability to staff even one voting site right now.
As of Tuesday morning, over 972,000 voters across Wisconsin had requested absentee ballots. That’s a record for Wisconsin, Wolfe said at a commission meeting on Tuesday, and well over the 250,000 absentee ballots cast in the 2016 primaries — but well short of total turnout that year, when about 2.1 million people voted.
Evers called last week for every voter to be mailed an absentee ballot. But election administrators said they, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported, and Republican state legislative leaders balked at the request, calling it logistically impossible.
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