Despite Health Risks, In-Person Voting Underway in Wisconsin

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🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

After a protracted tug-of-war between the state's governor, legislature and Supreme Court, voting is underway in Wisconsin's primary election. Results will not be disclosed until Monday to allow for the counting of absentee ballots.

And is Bernie Sanders staying in the presidential race in order to extract concessions in the Democratic Party's platform?

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and Shawn Johnson of Wisconsin Public Radio.

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0:00.0	Hello, NPR. Please, Shaylert. I live in Austin, Texas. I drive a Prius. And I've listened to every single NPR politics podcast.
0:13.9	But what you didn't expect is that I play the banjo.
0:18.9	This podcast was originally recorded at 2.10 pm on Tuesday, the 7th of April.
0:35.9	Things may have changed from the time that you listen to this. Okay, enjoy the show.
0:42.9	Oh, that was awesome. That was so awesome. I needed that. Hey there. This is the NPR politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keath. I cover the White House.
0:55.9	And I must look at it. I'm covering the 2020 election. It has been a wild ride of will they or won't they?
1:02.9	But there is an election happening today in Wisconsin. The state is holding its primary today.
1:08.9	That comes against the objections of the state's governor and in spite of health risks to get a clearer picture of what is happening on the ground there.
1:16.9	We have Sean Johnson from Wisconsin Public Radio on the line. Hey, Sean. Hey, thanks for having me. Yeah, so where are you right now?
1:23.9	Right now I'm in Madison, Wisconsin, recording from my home office where I've been spending a lot of time lately.
1:30.9	So they'd get a chance to go out though and talk to voters at polling places today.
1:35.9	Before we talk about what you heard from voters and it seems like there are a lot of people going out and voting despite it all.
1:41.9	How did we get here? It, you know, it seemed like every few hours there was an update of whether this election was happening or not.
1:47.9	Yeah, I think it started a few weeks ago when our governor Tony Evers started shutting everything down.
1:54.9	And at the time he was pretty reluctant to say that Wisconsin needed to delay its election.
1:59.9	He was at the time on the same page as Republicans and who run the legislature here.
2:05.9	And he's a Democrat, right?
2:07.9	Tony Evers is a Democrat and Republicans have strong majorities in the legislature.
2:12.9	Then as the COVID-19 crisis developed and as this election grew nearer, he changed and he called for a move to an all absentee ballot or a male in election basically.
2:28.9	That call was kind of ignored. Then he moved to call the legislature into special session to delay the election.
2:36.9	That was also ignored.
2:38.9	And so then this week he took the rare step of using an executive order to try to halt the election by himself.
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