Wisconsin is currently set to be the first state to restart the primary process next week amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
The decision to stay put is in part because more than just the presidential candidates are on the ballot for the upcoming spring election, which is a primary only at the presidential level and a general election for the state Supreme Court races and other local elections.
In the lead up to next week's election, top officials in the state resisted postponing, appearing united in their commitment to plow ahead. But on Friday, Evers appeared to reverse course - urging the state's Republican-controlled legislature to mail absentee ballots to all 3.3 million registered voters in the state.
"We’re united as a caucus in rejecting the governor’s request to upend the April 7th election," said Robin Vos, the speaker of the State Assembly, in a statement."His last-minute scheme of a mail-in ballot election is logistically impossible and incredibly flawed.
"I think we heard from clerks in the elections board that sending everybody a ballot 12 days before the election was not, you know, realistic and the fact that it would require legislative action when we haven't met yet made it an unlikely prospect," he continued."You're going to force people into a situation that we have spent the last two and a half weeks, begging people to avoid...
Since the arrival of the virus in the country, more than a dozen states delayed primaries until the summer, the presidential hopefuls remain sidelined from the campaign trail, and a coast-to-coast push for voting by mail continues to gain support."While we encourage people to request absentee ballots, you know, I've requested mine over a week ago and still haven't received it yet.
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