Washington Post: Wisconsin governor moves to suspend in-person voting in Tuesday’s elections amid coronavirus fears, drawing GOP court challenge

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order Monday suspending in-person voting in Tuesday’s elections, immediately prompting a legal challenge from the state’s GOP legislative leaders and injecting new uncertainty about whether voting would proceed.

Citing the intensifying health threat of the coronavirus pandemic, Evers ordered the postponement of in-person voting and the receipt deadline for mail-in ballots to June 9. He said the last-minute decision to act unilaterally resulted in part from dire warnings by the White House over the weekend, when several Trump administration officials predicted that the coronavirus pandemic will worsen dramatically during the coming week. …

Jay Heck, the executive director of Common Cause of Wisconsin, said he is “terrified” by the idea of the state holding the election on Tuesday given the mounting health risks.

“It’s insanity. It’s just insanity,” an emotional Heck said midday Monday, before the governor’s order, describing the ways people could contract coronavirus at a polling place. “It makes me cry thinking about what is going to happen tomorrow. It really does.”