The public-health crisis has intensified a long-running partisan fight over ballot access, now an escalating battle in multiple states.
President Trump and a growing number of Republican leaders are aggressively challenging efforts to make voting easier as thepandemic disrupts elections, accusing Democrats of opening the door to fraud — and, in some cases, admitting fears that expanded voting access could politically devastate the GOP.
With tense legislative and legal fights underway in three key states — and fresh battle lines being drawn in at least a dozen more — the viral outbreak has intensified a long-running partisan fight over ballot access into a battle now playing out on multiple fronts. “Republicans in the Legislature are playing politics with public safety and ignoring the urgency of this public health crisis,” Evers said in statement Saturday evening. “It’s wrong. No one should have to choose between their health and their right to vote.”Wisconsin Gov.
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