Bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Panel Votes To Send Mail-In Ballot Applications To All Voters

Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission unanimously approved a proposal that would ease the process of voting by mail rather than having to vote in person amid the COVID-19 outbreak on Wednesday night.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1311208
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Well this should bigly trigger Spanky the snowflake.

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Good. Maybe republicans are starting to read the tea leaves, that it will go better for them if they are not understood to be the party that wants people to die.

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Many people are saying that Robin Vos is organizing a campaign of blowing up Wisconsin Post Offices.

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Trump has ordered his staff to draft an Executive Order putting a stop to this nonsense. He can overrule the States. Article 2 says so.

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WI REPUG reply: Commies, recall them all… heheheheheheheh…

Bill Barr is devising ways to make life miserable for Secretaries of State. No doubt Federal intervention is being gamed out in the West Wing.

Not snark.

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Note to Donnie: The Train Has Left the Station.

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Wisconsin…

WOW. Great news, Wisconsin

@becca656

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Hullo Wisconsinites! Just making it known that you can all expect to go through some things once Current Occupant finds out about this. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

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As I understand it, the entire purpose of the “force people to vote in person” debacle was to protect the GOP’s hold on the state supreme court. Since it didn’t work, they might as well be human. Of course, the legislature may have time to file a case that gets it overturned by the supreme court before the new member joins.

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Well it’s a bit too late for that, in Wisconsin at least when you have Wisconsin supreme court justices saying things like:

In the middle of oral arguments Tuesday about the legality of the state’s stay-at-home order, an attorney for Gov. Tony Evers (D) had just pointed to Brown County, Wis., as an example of how fast the novel coronavirus can spread. The county, home to the JBS Packerland meatpacking plant, had its coronavirus cases surge more than tenfold, from about 60 cases to almost 800, in just two weeks, the lawyer said.

That’s when Roggensack interjected.

“These were due to the meatpacking, though,” she said. “That’s where Brown County got the flare. It wasn’t just the regular folks in Brown County.”

And WI Speaker Vos dressed in full protective gear to show the voters how safe it was to vote in person.

WI GOP has a lot of damage control to get out, after their carelessness was on full display.

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trump-rage

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And it’ll be challenged in court by the end of the day.

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It’s nice to see the words bipartisan and unanimous used together, though, isn’t it? I would have thought that saving lives in a pandemic would involve much more of that. I’ll take it when I can get it.

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WI new case counts continue to trend upward. Record 599 new cases and 22 deaths reported yesterday.

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Of course it will. Vote by mail has a paper trail and is harder to hack.

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The article left out an important part… The board has to approve this after the letter is drafted… and there in lies the problem, because the lead R already said he wants to thoroughly review it. So it’s not over until Vos and Fitzgerald put their grimy hands on it!

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Coincidentally (?) Wisconsin cases started surging a couple of weeks after the April 7 election. I’m certain that including some “regular folks”.

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Nonsense! There will be millions of illegal votes cast by illegal immigrants, all stemming from New Hampshire. Just wait to see all of those US Mail trucks flowing out of that state, carrying millions of illegal and fraudulent paper votes to all those nearby states.

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