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U.S. Supreme Court won’t allow primary voters in Wisconsin more time to turn in absentee ballots because of Coronavirus pandemic

It’s bewildering enough, it seems to us, that Wisconsin is going ahead with its primary today, after the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a last-minute move by the state’s governor to delay it til June. (We talked about this last week in our piece entitled: “Is Biden Winning? Is Trump? What?! The Country Is On Fire!”)

But a second ruling, by the U.S. Supreme Court, responding to an appeal by both Republican legislators in Wisconsin, and the Republican National Committee, may resonate even more in terms of far-reaching national implications.

The Supreme Court overturned a federal district court judge, who just a few days ago granted voters in Wisconsin an extra week to get their absentee ballots completed and in. Because — and this is the important part — thousand and thousands of voters there will not have even received their absentee ballots by the time they’re required to send them back. (And if you haven’t got it, you can’t return it.) So now it’s going to be impossible for all those people to vote unless they take their lives into their own hands and show up in person at the polls. That’s because the nationwide COVID-19 outbreak led to such an…