UNDATED (WSAU) – A study from the Centers for Disease Control did not find significant spread of Coronavirus from in-person voting in Wisconsin last April.
Wisconsin was the first state to open the polls after the COVID-19 pandemic. Other states either delayed their primaries or moved to mail-in voting.
The CDC found no significant increase of Coronavirus cases in the Milwaukee area and surrounding suburbs. Milwaukee required all in-person voting at only 6 polling locations.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services said 71 people who voted in-person became ill. But the CDC says it’s impossible to know if they became sick while voting; almost all had other exposures.
Voting took place in Wisconsin after the state Supreme Court rejected Governor Tony Evers executive order that would have delayed the election until June. The court ruled the governor did not have the power to change the election date. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Governor’s proposal to change the date for absentee ballots to be received to be counted.
