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Wisconsin Election Fight Heralds a National Battle Over Virus-Era Voting – The New York Times, Nytimes.com

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Wisconsin Election Fight Heralds a National Battle Over Virus-Era Voting – The New York Times, Nytimes.com
The sole polling location for city of Waukesha, Wis., On Monday, the day before the state’s scheduled election. Many states across the country have postponed their elections because of the coronavirus.
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(April 6, (Updated) 8: pm ET

MILWAUKEE – Wisconsin voters will face a choice between protecting their health and exercising their civic duty on Tuesday after state Republican leaders, backed up by a conservative majority on the state’s Supreme Court, rebuffed the Democratic governor’s attempt to postpone in-person voting in their presidential primary and local elections. The political and legal skirmishing throughout Monday was only the first round of an expected national fight over voting rights in the year of covid – . (The Republicans’ success came at the end of a day that left anxious voters whipsawed between competing claims from the governor, Tony Evers, and his opponents in the GOP-controlled State Legislature over whether Tuesday’s election would proceed as planned. It rattled democracy in a key battleground state already shaken by a fast-growing number of cases of the coronavirus.