Many voters unwilling to violate a stay-at-home order to vote in person tacitly accepted that their votes would not be counted. MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Despite federal health recommendations, thousands of Wisconsin voters waited hours in long lines outside overcrowded polling stations on Tuesday so they could participate in a presidential primary election that tested the limits of electoral politics in the midst of a pandemic.
Thousands more stayed home, unwilling to risk their health even as Republican officials pushed forward with the election amid a stay-at-home order.
But many of the potential voters who remained in their homes complained that the absentee ballots they had requested never showed up.