Wisconsin infectious diseases expert: Allowing in-person voting Tuesday 'just seems really irrespons
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin infectious diseases expert: Allowing in-person voting Tuesday 'just seems really irresponsible'
Molly Beck, Updated 4:02 p.m. CT April 4, 2020
MADISON - One of the state's top public health experts says Republican legislative leaders are putting Wisconsin at unnecessary risk by refusing to delay the election or stop in-person voting.
James Conway, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Global Health Institute, said allowing people to gather at polling locations during Tuesday's spring election will also damage the effectiveness of state leaders' message to stay away from each other to blunt the spread of coronavirus.
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"It just seems really irresponsible to make this one giant exception," Conway said in an interview. "I was a little naive a week or so ago in thinking, 'Oh, they've got to realize they've got to delay.' ... And then time has crept on and I'm like, really? I am very concerned.".....................................
................"From a public health stand it’s both the wrong message and it's taking an enormous gamble," Conway said. "I don’t know if it's selfish or naive. I don’t quite understand what the motivation is. I just think it's really not seeing the forest for the trees and I think they really need to see what the big picture is here."
Read more: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/04/coronavirus-wisconsin-health-expert-slams-voting-person-tuesday/2948119001/
Katherine Katsekes helps sort absentee ballots by ward to be opened on election day at Brookfield City Hall on Tuesday. Many area communities are having a larger-than-normal number of residents voting early as concerns about the coronavirus raise questions about the upcoming election on April 7.Buy Photo
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