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Evers Moves Spring Election to June 9
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | April 6, 2020
From WisPolitics.com …
Gov. Tony Evers, who has in the past suggested he doesn’t have the power to change tomorrow’s spring election date on his own, today issued an executive order pushing back in-person voting to June 9 to avoid exposing voters and poll workers to COVID-19.
Evers’ move comes after GOP lawmakers rejected his last-minute request to meet in special session to conduct the spring election by mail and push back deadlines to May to request and receive an absentee ballot.
It also comes amid a flurry of federal court action impacting the spring election and growing attention nationally to the possibility of Wisconsin moving forward with its election amid a growing public health emergency.
In a statement, Evers bemoaned GOP lawmakers declining to act on his request.
“But as municipalities are consolidating polling locations, and absent legislative or court action, I cannot in good conscience stand by and do nothing,” Evers said. “The bottom line is that I have an obligation to keep people safe, and that’s why I signed this executive order today.”
The guv’s office said ballots already cast will remain valid and be tallied in conjunction with the new in-person voting date.
See the release here.
See the order here.
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