The Wisconsin Department of Health said Tuesday that 19 people who reported that they voted in or worked the April 7 election tested positive for coronavirus in the days following.
I really hope that Ron Johnson spent a lot of time hanging out at the polling sites.
The Wisconsin GOP, their pet judges and the 5 radical right wingers on the Supreme Court have blood on their hands.
And, those assholes voted via absentee ballot! Out f_ckin’ rageous!
And those GOPers. do. not. care. I was thinking today about the back-and-forth I’ve had with Trumper friends about the virus and lockdown and such. The one thing we keep coming back to is that they really don’t care about anyone but themselves and their livelihoods and their feelings. I wonder if our lack of interest in the common good has declined sharply or whether the segment of the population that does. not. care. has remained steady and is simply louder in this age. Either way, it does not make me feel good about the human condition.
Presumably the 19 have been in contact with others who themselves have been in contact with others?
“That, on or about April 7th, 2020 the Wisconsin GOP, State Supreme Court, etc. did knowingly and willfully conspire to force in person voting despite ample medical evidence that such actions could and would lead to more infections…”
This is the GOP’s new notion of voter suppression…they finally accept that they are not the pro-life party!.
It’s not just the GOP, let’s not forget that the Biden campaign publicly (and Obama privately) pushed for the WI primary to be held.
“There’s a lot of things that can be done; that’s for the Wisconsin courts and folks to decide,” former Vice President Joe Biden said last Thursday in a virtual press briefing, in which he insisted that in-person and mail-in voting could both be done safely
Biden’s campaign also made clear that they were eager for that specific date to hold firm, and they were prepared, if it did not, to shift their public rhetoric ever so slightly to turn the heat up for Sanders to take steps to begin uniting the party.
Obama especially emphasized that in his conversations with Sanders, another source involved with the process told NBC.
Thanks, guys! (All of the people pushing for the vote to take place as planned were men.)
the lege responds
'‘The GOP-controlled state Legislature asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday to suspend Gov. Tony Evers’ stay-at-home order after mounting Republican outcry that the administration had gone too far. ‘’
The Republican party really should be held accountable for this one, they are the ones that pushed to keep the in person voting in place, and sued over it. It’s clear they only care about power, and when a political party reaches that point, when they forget they are beholden to the people, it is past the time to get rid of them. WI has been taught a lesson, we’ll see if they actually learned anything in November.
I’m sorry, but this is terribly misleading. Neither Biden nor Sanders took a position on the matter because it wasn’t their call. They kept the same neutral positions they took when Dewine postponed the Ohio primary weeks earlier.
From the very piece you attached:
“There’s a lot of things that can be done; that’s for the Wisconsin courts and folks to decide,” former Vice President Joe Biden said last Thursday in a virtual press briefing, in which he insisted that in-person and mail-in voting could both be done safely—even though he considers the possibility of a national convention in the state to be a potential risk to public health.
“A convention having tens of thousands of people in one arena is very different than having people walk into a polling booth with accurate spacing with 6 to 10 feet apart, one at a time going in, and having the machines scrubbed down,” Biden said. “I think you could hold the election as well dealing with mail-in ballots and same-day registration. I think it could be done… but that’s for them to decide.”
Now I grant you that Wisconsin’s rate of infection was way higher (somewhere around 1,200 or 1,300) than was Ohio’s (60 or so case on March 15). And had Biden and Sanders taken a united position suggesting the primary be postponed, it might have been symbolic, but the primary would’ve gone on anyway.
The only demons in this story are Wisconsin Republicans. Period.
Edit: typos
…people had to cram into five polling places — down from the city’s usual 180.
Polls open at 7 a.m. Vote early : - )
“Yeah, it’s gone too far! We need to get the economy (read: market going up again) so that our inheritance regains value before we kill Nana and Papa with this Corona thing. Oh! Did I say that out loud?”
Republican Legislator
Ha…Chris on MSNBC just sited this TPM story.
Fat Chance.
Thank you for using a many-decades-old picture of Bernie as your avatar. It’s helpful in understanding why you would state something misleading about Trump’s opponent.
About 40% of the adult population of WI voted in the election. About 20% of those who voted did so at the polls.
So, about 8% of the adult population of WI went to the polls. That population is almost 4 million. So 8% of 4 million
Wisconsin’s rate of new cases in the 140 per day range. I think the “19 cases” were reported over two days, so say 260 new cases.
What’s 8% of 260? About 21.
That is, take a sample of 8% of WI adults based on anything - being left-handed, say - and you’d expect 21 of them to be new cases of COVID in WI.
Being left-handed didn’t cause their COVID cases. Quite likely, neither did going to the polls. If more such cases show up over the next few days, we’ll re-evaluate.
But right now, post hoc, ergo propter hoc