Wisconsin’s state Speaker Robin Vos (R) defended the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision to host primary elections Tuesday in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, telling a reporter with The Journal Times: “You are incredibly safe to go out.”

Why it matters: Vos made the comments while donning a mask, gloves and protective gown, an image that underscored the health concerns that many have expressed about Tuesday’s elections.

Those that vote Republican are collaborators, accomplices to mass murder. It really IS that simple. Remember that and treat them accordingly.

Premeditated mass murder. In 3 weeks we will learn just how many to add to the GOP’s body count.

The background is that Republicans hope to hold onto a seat on the state Supreme Court, which is up for grabs in Tuesday’s election. As law professor and election law expert Rick Hasen recently noted, “only 38% of voters who had requested an absentee ballot in heavily Democratic Milwaukee County had returned one, compared with over 56% of absentee voters in nearby Republican-leaning Waukesha County.” So there’s at least some evidence that, if additional voters are unable to return their ballots, Republicans will be overrepresented in the ballots that are counted.

It’s also worth noting that, if Wisconsin had free and fair elections to choose its state lawmakers, Evers would most likely have been able to work with a Democratic legislature to ensure that Tuesday’s election would be conducted fairly. In 2018, 54 percent of voters chose a Democratic candidate for the state Assembly. But Republicans have so completely gerrymandered the state that they prevailed in 63 of the state’s 99 Assembly races.

There is far more at stake in Wisconsin, moreover, than one state Supreme Court seat. Wisconsin could be the pivotal swing state that decides the 2020 presidential election. The question of whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden occupies the White House next year could easily be determined by which man receives Wisconsin’s electoral votes.

And the Court’s decision in Republican suggests that the Supreme Court will give the GOP broad leeway in how US elections should be conducted.

A voter contacted a campaign in Milwaukee, and said “I need a witness for my absentee ballot, and I have coronavirus.”

We are literally sitting here trying to figure out how to find somebody who had it, so they can go witness the signature, and get the ballot.

This is insane.

— Sachin Chheda (@skchheda) April 7, 2020

The deed is done. #8 at my polling place this morning.

-requested an absentee ballot, never got it
-found out the reason why I never got it was because the city accidentally de-registered me after I voted in the Feb. election
-the ROAD to my polling place was closed lol

— Madeline Heim (@madeline_heim) April 7, 2020