Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumLong lines form in Milwaukee as Wisconsin elections proceed under court order
Hundreds of voters stood in lines that stretched for blocks in Milwaukee early Tuesday morning to cast their ballots amid warnings about the spread of the coronavirus, a chaotic start to Wisconsin elections that went forward only after a last-minute legal battle.
Morning scenes at the polls across the city, which was able to open only five polling locations, down from 180 underscored the near-unprecedented challenge facing election administrators one day after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers sought to suspend in-person voting in light of the covid-19 pandemic, an order that was quickly reversed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The decision was a victory for the state’s GOP-controlled legislature, which had declined to postpone the election and filed a legal challenge to Evers’s order, arguing it exceeded the governor’s constitutional authority.
Seething anger mixed with resolve at the end of the line of voters that stretched to about 400 people waiting outside Milwaukee’s Riverside University High School, which stretched for many blocks and snaked into nearby Riverside Park.
Rosie Redmon, 79, sat in her wheelchair at the front of the line. She arrived with her son and daughter-in-law at 5:45 a.m., knowing the polling location would be packed. “We decided to risk our lives to come vote,” said Ellie Bradish, 40. “I feel like I’m voting for my neighbors ...”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/long-lines-form-in-milwaukee-as-wisconsin-proceeds-with-elections-under-court-order/2020/04/07/93727b34-78c7-11ea-b6ff-597f170df8f8_story.html
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mahatmakanejeeves
(62,280 posts)Hat tip, commenter gaycuckhubby at Joe.My.God:
A voter just sent me this video of the line outside a polling location at Riverside High School in Milwaukee
Link to tweet
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Deeply impressed with their patriotism and their adherence to social distancing and mask guidelines. May they all be well.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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at140
(6,151 posts)There was no social distancing at all. Same at Walmart, Aldi. But my daughter in Redwood city tells me she goes to Trader Joe's and they only let in 1 person when another comes out.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Turin_C3PO
(16,245 posts)Wtf is that about? Republican voter suppression?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Jimbo S
(3,022 posts)Too many people not willing to expose themselves working the polls. Normally 180, down to five today. My City of Waukesha (pop. 75K) has exactly ONE. And it's a red county.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Turin_C3PO
(16,245 posts)in November if this situation stays as it is. We can’t win Wisconsin without good voter turnout in Milwaukee.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Vote by mail. Start NOW - don’t wait.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Jimbo S
(3,022 posts)Governor Evers waited too long to ask people to vote by mail.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
I think most states have some sort of vote by mail provisions. In those states we need to agitate to get voters to fill out forms NOW. In other states - we need to agitate to allow absentee/mail voting and early voting along with extending the voting window.
If we wait - we lose.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Akakoji
(248 posts)In New York State I needed to have another doctor write one for me! The issue needs to be addressed nationally. The current usurper in The White House has made clear why he opposes that vigorously. We really need to attack these problems state by state, creating activists in every zip code. We might actually take back a few more Senate seats and state legislatures that way. Alas, Democrats just don’t seem to take their daily responsibility to learn about - that’s key - and interact with government at every level as much as Republicans do. To them it’s typically as a transactional event, or a form of social bonding.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Start today and push back against current restrictions. I live in Idaho for god’s sake. A redder State you will not find. But we have one form that can be filled out each year to have ballots delivered to your mailbox and returned the same way.
I hope that with enough pushback - rules can and will be changed.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
at140
(6,151 posts)and don't want to go to post-office to buy 50 cent stamps. How about voting on line?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
chowder66
(10,024 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Bengus81
(7,656 posts)Just got mine in the mail yesterday for Kansas and I don't have to put any return postage on it. Those were printed so long ago that Warren and Gabbert are still both on it.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
at140
(6,151 posts)I voted there for a dozen years, all voting is by mail, but have to use own stamp or you could drive to a drop off box downtown area in Marysville.
Now I moved to Florida 4 years so things could have changed in WA.
If I can file taxes on-line, which requires lot more security, why not assign each voter a password and that way we can all vote from the comfort of home, on-line.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,899 posts)They were supposed to replace the poll workers not able to come.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)poll worker availability. It's NOT going to be all about people unwilling to expose themselves. These days when I see effective vote suppression, I assume deliberate Republican vote suppression. Of course.
Go, Dem voters!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ancianita
(39,151 posts)At the 00:18 mark
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Spaced 6’ apart. Being herd animals, people automatically fall into line stoping at a marker. That’s damn smart! It’s not too late to establish this at polling places now!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sweetloukillbot
(12,672 posts)Unfortunately they're also putting other peoples' lives on the line.
I hope they remember this clusterfuck was caused by Republicans trying to maintain their Supreme Court advantage.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ancianita
(39,151 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sweetloukillbot
(12,672 posts)Maybe just a series of Burma-Shave type signs along the queue.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ancianita
(39,151 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)We already have the vote, though, and I am so proud of all those who came to elect Democrats and kick the Republican asses right back.
Congressman John Lewis needn't have worried, but he would have been speaking out anyway for every last vote he could get out.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
onetexan
(13,913 posts)I would risk my life as well to be able to exercise my right &my voice in a free & democratic election.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
OrlandoDem2
(2,390 posts)Brett Kavanaugh was the deciding vote.
We should have a 5-4 majority!
Thanks, Bernie Bros, for not turning out for Hillary in 2016. Idiots!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
FailureToCommunicate
(14,361 posts)really the same' lazy-assed, uninformed citizens.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
question everything
(49,367 posts)will also flip, or significantly decrease the Republican majority in the House?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,899 posts)fix for the elderly poll workers not able to come and the polling places in danger of being shut down.
REALLY PISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Tetrachloride
(8,525 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,899 posts)as is our consitutional right. call in the international observers too.
what am I missing.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,899 posts)Evers? Where's the National Guard?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BidenBacker
(1,089 posts)Tomorrow's headline...
"Wisconsin Democrats Risk Death to Vote in Primary"
Now somebody tell me again about the "lack of enthusiasm" in the Democratic Party.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(306,394 posts)and so many others like you. Voting in spite of the dangerous risks.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Peacetrain
(23,687 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden