Kathryn Rogers has lived — and voted — in eastern Dane County for more than 50 years. Now, she's 82 and the president is trying to throw out her ballot.
"There aren't enough adjectives to describe what I'm thinking," she told me.
John and Renae Feldner of McFarland also cast their ballots on Oct. 20. John Feldner, 70, a retired high school guidance counselor, said they waited in line for around 10 minutes. The couple also voted early in 2018.
"They counted last time, why wouldn't they count this time?"
Barbara and Eugene Summ of Madison, are in their 80s, have been married 61 years and say they never miss a chance to vote.
The couple has been voting absentee in recent years and in the last year or so registered as indefinitely confined after Eugene underwent a knee replacement
"It's horrible," Barbara Summ said of the Republican attempt to throw out their votes. "The word is undemocratic."
"Who the hell does he think he is that he can start going around and questioning people's vote? We voted in sincere effort and honesty and so what's the beef?" Eugene Summ said.
Alice Howard, 68, is a longtime community leader in Madison's Allied Drive neighborhood, which is predominantly low-income. Because of physical ailments, she uses a motorized wheelchair and is indefinitely confined.
"We all have a privilege of voting the way it's comfortable for us. No one should try to stop us from voting unless they want to go back to slavery days. This is our right and we have a choice of which way to do it and nobody has a right to tell us we can't.
"I'm not just talking about people of color," said Howard, who is Black. "I'm talking about all people."
@DaphneChen_@madeline_heim Across Wisconsin, overflowing hospitals and spiking case rates are causing panic among health care workers and public health officials who are sounding the alarm that the state is about to enter the most dangerous period of the pandemic yet.
@DaphneChen_@madeline_heim “The timing and confluence with what’s happening in Wisconsin, I don’t think could be worse,” said Amanda Simanek, epidemiologist with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
.@SpeakerVos says Assembly Republicans are not introducing bills, but publicly proposing ideas including doubling the number of contract tracers in Wisconsin.
Some local health departments have abandoned tracing efforts beyond positive cases because of the surge in cases.
@SpeakerVos Vos says Republican lawmakers don't have any bills drafted.
@SpeakerVos Vos says "nobody cares" when Republican lawmakers who control the Legislature are meeting with the governor about legislation to address the pandemic.
BREAKING: @SpeakerVos is releasing "new legislative initiatives to help slow the spread of COVID-19 and assist Wisconsinites during these challenging times" at a 2 p.m. press conference in the state Capitol.
@SpeakerVos This is the first possible legislative action in Wisconsin on COVID-19 since April.
More BREAKING: @GovEvers has released a new COVID-19 legislative proposal, too.
Some measures it contains: Allow those out of work to immediately claim unemployment benefits, suspending for another year a requirement that forces people to wait a week before receiving benefits.
@bschoenburg@DougFinkeSJR "Finke has been as rumpled as Schoenburg is dapper, wearing a sport coat almost grudgingly, it seemed, as if in sartorial surrender to statehouse rules setting minimum standards," @brushtoniltimes writes
This leaves the daily newspaper in the Illinois capital city with TWO news reporters, according to the paper's staff page.
4,389 new cases -- 70,205 active infections
12 new deaths
178 new hospitalizations, for a total of 2,274 patients
77% of cases have recovered since March
Seven-day average percentage of positive tests by person: 36.4% and by test: 17.9%
456 patients are in ICUs. 168 beds are available out of 1,466.
Department of Health Services chief medical officer Ryan Westergaard in briefing with @WiHealthNews says Wisconsin is approaching a "tipping point" when hospitals are not able to save everyone who becomes ill.
@WiHealthNews Westergaard says Wisconsin lost control of the outbreak over the summer.
He says a big issue has been predominantly asymptomatic people who aren't limiting interaction with other people.
@WiHealthNews Wisconsin Hospitals Association's Eric Borgerding says staffing in hospitals are "stressed."
"Not only are we seeing demand ... just almost going at a vertical pace, truly, but it's coming at a time when our capacity to treat that demand is becoming more and more diminished."