Posted on 04/13/2020 4:29:45 PM PDT by Coronal
Wisconsin is releasing results from its presidential primary and state Supreme Court election after the deadline to send in absentee ballots passes at 4 p.m. Central Time and 5 p.m. Eastern Time on April 13.
What's at stake?
Bernie Sanders officially dropped out of the presidential primary on April 8, making former VP Joe Biden the presumptive Democratic nominee. While Sanders will continue to stay on the ballot in upcoming primaries and earn delegates from those contests, he formally endorsed Biden on April 13.
In the Democratic presidential primary, Wisconsin allocates 84 pledged delegates to the Democracy convention, with 55 allocated between Wisconsin's eight congressional districts and 29 at-large and PLEO (party leader and elected official) delegates allocated based on the statewide results.
The other major statewide election on the ballot this year in Wisconsin was a key State Supreme Court race, in which Democratic-backed Jill Karofsky challenged Republican-backed Judge Daniel Kelly, who was appointed by former Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
While state Supreme Court candidates in Wisconsin are technically nonpartisan, they are almost always aligned with or supported by political parties. Currently, the court is composed of five conservative-aligned judges, including Kelly, and two liberal judges.
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You live in a banana republic. Nothing more needs to be said.
I don’t know when the last fair election/vote count was held, but it’s been a very long time.
They didn’t ban release. They waited for all the mail-in ballots to arrive, particularly overseas and military. Friday was a holiday.
Since Republican voters are older than Democrat voters, and since older people are much more at risk for serious illness from the coronavirus, I'm not sure how much stock I'd put in this to predict things in November.
If the pandemic is still ongoing in November, it probably won't matter who wins.
They didnt ban release. They waited for all the mail-in ballots to arrive, particularly overseas and military. Friday was a holiday.
This is a new one on me. In every election, there are absentee and mail in ballots which are counted after election day. But the fact that those ballots may not have arrived by election day does not prevent the release of the election returns from election day itself.
Absentee ballots are not likely to change election resultsor so it was, 25 years ago.
Court challenges and lawsuits were the reason. “U.S. District Judge William Conley rejected a request by Democrats and liberal groups to postpone Wisconsins election, but ordered that voters have until Monday (today) six days after the election to file absentee ballots. And Conley prohibited clerks from starting counts until 4 p.m. today.”
https://wkow.com/2020/04/13/clerks-set-to-count-votes-in-messy-wisconsin-election/
Thank you for the info. So it was based on court challenges that this happened. I had not heard anyone in the media, or anyone here, note that it was highly unusual to not release election returns as votes were counted on election night.
You’re most welcome! I wasn’t sure so I looked it up!
Be very quiet... the Democrats are mining a few thousand more votes.
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