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Wisconsin is Voting Despite Coronavirus Health Threat

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - Even with a rising tide of coronavirus cases, the
   Midwestern U.S. state of Wisconsin started in-person voting Tuesday in
   a Democratic presidential primary the state supreme court reinstated
   after the governor had postponed it.

   The number of polling places was sharply reduced throughout the state,
   with hundreds of Election Day poll workers refusing to honor their
   commitment to work for fear of contracting the deadly virus as they
   checked in voters off registration lists.

   In Milwaukee, the state's biggest city, only five of the planned 180
   polling stations were open.

   But long lines of self-distancing voters quickly emerged at the open
   polling stations, with health care workers handing out masks to people
   waiting in line.

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