Wisconsin 投票者s 軍隊d to choose between health, 僕主主義

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - If Wisconsin was a 実験(する) 事例/患者 for 投票(する)ing in the age of the coronavirus, it did not go 井戸/弁護士席 for many 投票者s.

Thousands were 軍隊d to congregate for hours in long lines on Tuesday with no 保護の gear. Thousands more stayed home, unwilling to 危険 their health and unable to be counted because requested absentee 投票(する)s never arrived.

投票者s 報告(する)/憶測d 存在 afraid, angry and embarrassed by the 明言する/公表する's 不本意 to 延期する their 大統領の 予備選挙s as more than a dozen other 明言する/公表するs have already done. Neither Joe Biden nor Bernie やすりを削る人/削る機械s will be 宣言するd a 勝利者 at least until next Monday in 一致 with one of several 法廷,裁判所 orders that 形態/調整d the contest.

And there was 証拠 that 少数,小数派 投票者s were 不均衡な 衝撃d by 普及した 投票 終結s in their communities. Michael Claus, 66, wore a 保護の mask and a Tuskegee Airmen cap, as he waited to 投票(する).

The African American man said he tried to 投票(する) absentee and requested a 投票(する) in March but it never showed up. His only 選択 was to 投票(する) in person. He 非難するd the 共和国の/共和党の-controlled 明言する/公表する 立法機関.

"They could have 延期するd the 選挙 with no problem," Claus said. "They decided if they can 抑える the 投票(する) in Milwaukee and Madison, where you have a large 少数,小数派 presence, you can get people elected you want elected. And that´s sad."

An election official cleans a voting booth before a person votes at Riverside High School, in Milwaukee on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. The Wisconsin primary is moving forward in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic after Gov. Tony Evers sought to shut down Tuesday's election in
 a historic move Monday that was swiftly rejected by the conservative majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court by the end of the day. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

An 選挙 公式の/役人 cleans a 投票(する)ing booth before a person 投票(する)s at Riverside High School, in Milwaukee on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. The Wisconsin 最初の/主要な is moving 今後 in the wake of the coronavirus 疫病/流行性の after Gov. Tony Evers sought to shut 負かす/撃墜する Tuesday's 選挙 in a historic move Monday that was 速く 拒絶するd by the 保守的な 大多数 of the Wisconsin 最高裁判所 by the end of the day. (マイク De Sisti/Milwaukee 定期刊行物-Sentinel 経由で AP)

The 大混乱 in Wisconsin, a 首相 総選挙 battleground, was 推定する/予想するd to reverberate across 明言する/公表するs that still have 最初の/主要なs ahead. Alaska, Wyoming and Ohio are 行為/行うing contests by mail this month, and other 明言する/公表するs, 含むing Georgia, are 予定するd to 持つ/拘留する in-person 投票(する)ing in May.

選挙 専門家s 警告するd that Wisconsin was an example of what not to do. And the experience 追加するd 即座の 状況 to the broader 審議 about 保護するing 投票(する)ing 権利s this November.

"We have moved 今後 with an 選挙, but we have not moved 今後 with 僕主主義 in the 明言する/公表する of Wisconsin," 警告するd Neil Albrecht, (n)役員/(a)執行力のある 悲惨な ctor of Milwaukee's 選挙 (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限.

With results not coming until next week, the 明言する/公表する did not 申し込む/申し出 Biden the ノックアウト blow he hoped for in his 大統領の 指名/任命 fight against やすりを削る人/削る機械s. The 候補者s spoke out late Tuesday on separate livestreams from the safety of their homes hundreds of miles (キロメーターs) away but had little to say about the Wisconsin contest.

やすりを削る人/削る機械s didn't say a word about the 選挙 on Tuesday after 警告 the night before that the 持つ/拘留するing the 選挙 was "dangerous" and "may 証明する deadly." Biden, too, said in-person 投票(する)ing shouldn't have taken place.

民主党員s in and out of Wisconsin had 押し進めるd for the contest to be 延期するd, yet 共和国の/共和党のs - and the 保守的な-大多数 明言する/公表する 最高裁判所 - would not give in. The fight over whether to 延期する the 選挙 was 影響(力)d by a 明言する/公表する 最高裁判所 選挙 also 存在 held Tuesday. A lower 人出/投票者数 was thought to 利益 the 保守的な 候補者.

Lest there be any 疑問 about the GOP´s 動機づけ, 大統領 Donald Trump on Tuesday broke from health 専門家s who have encouraged all Americans to stay home by calling on his 支持者s to "get out and 投票(する) NOW" for the 保守的な judicial 候補者.

The 選挙 was unlike 事実上 any other in 最近の memory. Milwaukee, the 明言する/公表する´s largest city, opened just five of its 180 伝統的な 投票ing places, 軍隊d to downsize after hundreds of 投票 労働者s stepped 負かす/撃墜する because of health 危険s. The 続いて起こるing logjam 軍隊d 投票者s to wait together in lines spanning several 封鎖するs in some 事例/患者s. Many did not have facial coverings.

As of Tuesday night, Wisconsin 報告(する)/憶測d more than 2,500 coronavirus 感染s and 92 関係のある deaths - 49 of them in Milwaukee 郡, where the 投票(する)ing lines were longest.

Milwaukee is home to the 明言する/公表する´s largest 集中 of 黒人/ボイコット 投票者s, a community that has been 攻撃する,衝突する harder than others during the pandemic. 減ずるd 少数,小数派 人出/投票者数 would 利益 共和国の/共和党のs in a 一連の 明言する/公表する and 地元の 選挙s.

The 前例のない challenge created 大混乱/混沌とした scenes across the 明言する/公表する - and a variety of health 危険s for 投票者s and the elected 公式の/役人s who fought to keep 投票s open.

They 含むd コマドリ Vos, the 共和国の/共和党の (衆議院の)議長 of the 明言する/公表する 議会, who joined more than 2,500 国家の Guard 軍隊/機動隊s 派遣(する)d to help staff 投票(する)ing 駅/配置するs. While many 投票者s 立ち往生させるd in lines for more than an hour did not have any 保護の 器具/備品, Vos donned a 直面する mask, safety glasses, gloves and a 十分な 保護の gown.

In Madison, city 労働者s 築くd Plexiglas 障壁s to 保護する 投票 労働者s, and 投票者s were encouraged to bring their own pens to 示す the 投票(する)s.

Tens of thousands of 投票者s who received absentee 投票(する)s had not returned them as of Tuesday, Albrecht said. He 公式文書,認めるd that his office received hundreds of calls from people who didn´t get an absentee 投票(する) or were 関心d theirs hadn´t been 配達するd to 選挙 公式の/役人s.

Milwaukee 居住(者) Megan Nakkula, 30, was 軍隊d to 投票(する) in person after requesting an absentee 投票(する) but never receiving it.

"It´s been a very emotional day thinking about what the 結果 of this could be," she said, 持つ/拘留するing 支援する 涙/ほころびs. "It just doesn´t feel like it was the safest 決定/判定勝ち(する) to do. I saw a lot of 年輩の 投票者s, people who were high 危険 and everyone is taking as many 警戒s as they could. We were 6 feet apart, but you know, we don´t know what we don´t know about this ウイルス at this point in time, and it´s really scary."

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Peoples 報告(する)/憶測d from Montclair, New Jersey. Associated 圧力(をかける) writers Gretchen Ehlke and Carrie Antlfinger in Milwaukee and Amy Forliti and Doug Glass in Minneapolis 与える/捧げるd to this 報告(する)/憶測.

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City of Milwaukee Election Commission workers process absentee ballots in Wisconsin's presidential primary election, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Milwaukee, Wis. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

City of Milwaukee 選挙 (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 労働者s 過程 absentee 投票(する)s in Wisconsin's 大統領の 予備選挙, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Milwaukee, Wis. (示す Hoffman/Milwaukee 定期刊行物-Sentinel 経由で AP)

City of Milwaukee Election Commission workers process absentee ballots in Wisconsin's presidential primary election, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Milwaukee, Wis. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

City of Milwaukee 選挙 (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 労働者s 過程 absentee 投票(する)s in Wisconsin's 大統領の 予備選挙, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Milwaukee, Wis. (示す Hoffman/Milwaukee 定期刊行物-Sentinel 経由で AP)

People vote at Riverside High School, in Milwaukee on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. The Wisconsin primary is moving forward in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic after Gov. Tony Evers sought to shut down Tuesday's election in a historic move Monday that was swiftly rejected by the conservative majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court by the end of the day. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

People 投票(する) at Riverside High School, in Milwaukee on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. The Wisconsin 最初の/主要な is moving 今後 in the wake of the coronavirus 疫病/流行性の after Gov. Tony Evers sought to shut 負かす/撃墜する Tuesday's 選挙 in a historic move Monday that was 速く 拒絶するd by the 保守的な 大多数 of the Wisconsin 最高裁判所 by the end of the day. (マイク De Sisti/Milwaukee 定期刊行物-Sentinel 経由で AP)

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