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Camouflaged as Polling Workers, National Guard Presence During Primaries Fuels Worries of Militarized Presidential Election
October 14, 2020|Courtney Mabeus

By the time Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers’ statewide “safer at home” order took effect March 25, Milwaukee election workers had already called out from work in droves.

The streets outside City Hall looked like those of a ghost town. But even as most city employees worked from home, a fraught scene unfolded inside the election commission’s fifth-floor office: About 100 rattled workers scrambled to plan for an April 7 primary even as state lawmakers turned the event into a legal battle.

“We were forced by the politics of this state to go forward and have in-person voting on election day,” Neil Albrecht, the now-retired executive director for the city’s election commission, told The War Horse in a phone interview.

https://thewarhorse.org/camouflaged-as-polling-workers-national-guard-presence-during-spring-elections-fuels-worries-of-militarized-presidential-election/