'Either they will have to brave the polls, endangering their own and others’ safety. Or they will lose their right to vote, through no fault of their own,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued in her dissent
SCOTUS had a troubling late-night surprise for Wisconsin voters. Photo: AFP via Getty Images Late Monday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court insisted on maintaining an in-person coronavirus-plagued primary contest for Tuesday, April 7, despite a massive shortage of poll workers and a lot of voters rightly terrified of congregating.
The Court’s decision on the narrow question before the Court should not be viewed as expressing an opinion on the broader question of whether to hold the election, or whether other reforms or modifications in election procedures in light of COVID–19 are appropriate. That point cannot be stressed enough.
Because gathering at the polling place now poses dire health risks, an unprecedented number of Wisconsin voters—at the encouragement of public officials—have turned to voting absentee. Id., at ___, 2020 WL 1638374, *4. About one million more voters have requested absentee ballots in this election than in 2016. Ibid. Accommodating the surge of absentee ballot requests has heavily burdened election officials, resulting in a severe backlog of ballots requested but not promptly mailed to voters.
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