The Republican Plot Against Voting Turns Deadly

The coronavirus pandemic has upended primary elections across the country. Most states have moved their remaining elections to late May or June—dates which now seem a little too optimistic. The Alaska Democratic Party, which is slated to hold its presidential primary in a few weeks, switched to an all-mail election. So did their Wyoming counterparts, who scrapped the planned April caucus in favor of ballot drop-off sites.

The exception is Wisconsin, where it’s full steam ahead for a primary election next Tuesday. Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, bowed to internal party pressure on Friday to call a special session of the Republican-led state legislature. He summoned lawmakers from the Republican-led chambers to consider legislation to move the primary to mid-May, as well as mandate the use of mail-in absentee ballots for all voters save the disabled, for whom polling stations would remain open exclusively.