Thread by @kgosztola

Wisconsin GOP officials knew concerns about public health risks and voter disenfranchisement, yet they wielded power in courts to force state to hold primary in pandemic.

Thread will document many of problems at polling places. #WisconsinPrimary #coronavirus

Here is a line at one of only five polling places open in Milwaukee. Polling place were consolidated from 180 sites to five.

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Line at Waukesha polling place. This is the only place where residents can vote. The city's population is over 70,000.

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Plenty of video circulating of Riverside High School in Milwaukee, one of five sites in a city of 595,000 where residents can vote.

Line is very long, as people try to space as close to 6 feet as possible to avoid getting sick.

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Another video of line in Milwaukee at Riverside High School. Voters brought whatever makeshift personal protective equipment they could find in order to participate "safely" during a pandemic. They'll likely spend at least hour in line.

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.@fightfor15 shared this video from Milwaukee around 9:45 am when the line to vote was 1 hr 40 minutes
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From yesterday but important because it relates to the sheer number of people disenfranchised by conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Voters followed guidance of federal court, but that court was overruled. So now they don't count. #WisconsinPrimary

The New York Times updates that many requests for absentee ballots (mail-in ballots) were not filled between March 20-24 because elections offices were overwhelmed.

Wisconsin doesn't have vote-by-mail system like Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, or Utah. #WisconsinPrimary

Jill Swenson is a 61-year-old who suffers from "chronic lung disease and fears contracting the coronavirus." NYT detailed all the steps she took to remain quarantined and still participate in the primary. In the end, it was all for nothing. Vote won't count. #WisconsinPrimary

"The whole voting situation is fucked up"

This Wisconsin voter story comes from the Daily Beast, and it involves a 29-year-old who was eight months pregnant and did not vote because it would have put health of her baby at risk. #WisconsinPrimary

Twitter does not allow for me to edit the incorrect information so this will have to do. Sorry I got this mixed up. Thanks, Pat.

Christopher Sullivan, a voter in Holmen, Wisconsin (near Minnesota border): "Because it is this unsafe to vote, maybe we should have postponed the election or done mail-in ballots." #WisconsinPrimary

Photo by @Pmcknightnews of Jennifer Taff holding "This is ridiculous" sign went viral.

Taff waited in line for 2 hrs and told Journal Sentinel: "I have a father dying from lung disease, and I have to risk my life and his just to exercise my right to vote." #WisconsinPrimary