Coronavirus: Long lines and frustration as people in Wisconsin brave voting amid pandemic

MILWAUKEE - Despite a last-minute court battle and a stay-at-home order, thousands of Wisconsin voters on Tuesday braved the coronavirus outbreak to wait six feet apart in lines for hours and cast ballots in the state's presidential primary and local elections.

The general election that will determine the next president - Republican President Donald Trump or a Democratic challenger is scheduled for Nov 3. In Green Bay, poll workers sat behind Plexiglas barriers. In Madison, election officials urged voters to bring their own pens - black or blue ballpoint, if possible, because other colors or types of ink could flummox ballot-counting machines.

Separately, in another Republican challenge, the US Supreme Court on Monday overturned a federal judge's decision extending absentee voting for six days, instead ruling all ballots had to be postmarked by Tuesday. Others weren't able to vote at all. Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich said in a phone interview that his wife, who is immunocomprised, never got her absentee ballot and could not risk voting in person.

Former vice-president Joe Biden holds a commanding lead over rival US Senator Bernie Sanders. The pandemic has forced both candidates off the campaign trail Wisconsin election results will not be released until April 13, the deadline for absentee ballots postmarked by Tuesday to be received.

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