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Wednesday 8 april 2020
Wisconsin voters wait hours at the few open polling stations

By SCOTT BAUER and tion, Trump on Tuesday
STEVE PEOPLES broke from health experts
Associated Press who have encouraged all
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Americans to stay home by
Thousands of Wisconsin calling on his supporters to
voters waited hours in line show up for the conserva-
to cast ballots and the Na- tive judicial candidate.
tional Guard staffed over- "Wisconsin, get out and
crowded polling stations vote NOW for Justice
on Tuesday, straining the Daniel Kelly. Protect your
state's ability to hold a pres- 2nd Amendment!" Trump
idential primary election tweeted. Sanders said that
under the lash of an esca- holding the election was
lating pandemic. "dangerous" and "may very
At the same time, many well prove deadly." He did
voters said they did not not encourage his support-
receive their requested ers to vote in person. Biden
absentee ballots and, un- has largely avoided discus-
willing to violate a stay-at- sion of the Wisconsin con-
home order to vote in per- test in recent days, instruct-
son, accepted their votes ing his supporters only to
would not be counted. "follow the science."
"We have moved forward Wisconsin had reported
with an election, but we nearly 2,500 coronavirus
have not moved forward Robert Wilson reviews his selections on his ballot while voting at the town’s highway garage infections and 77 related
with democracy in the building Tuesday, April 7, 2020 in Dunn, Wis. deaths as of Monday night.
state of Wisconsin," warned Associated Press. The unprecedented chal-
Neil Albrecht, executive upended politics as Demo- sion to allow voting at all. Its Supreme Court — would lenge created a chaotic
director of the Milwaukee crats seek a nominee to ability to host an election not give in. There were par- scenes across the state —
election commission. take on President Donald during a growing pandem- ticular concerns that minor- and a variety of health risks
The state's largest city Trump this fall. As the first ic could have significant ity voters, who tend to live for voters and the elected
opened just five of its 180 state to hold a presiden- implications for upcoming in the areas with the most officials who fought to keep
traditional polling places, tial primary contest in three primaries and even the fall significant wait times and polls open.
forced to downsize after weeks, Wisconsin becomes general election. the highest health risks, They included Robin Vos,
hundreds of poll workers a test case for dozens of Polls were scheduled to were disproportionately the Republican speaker of
stepped down because states struggling to bal- close at 8 p.m. CDT, al- affected. The fight over the state Assembly, who
of health risks. The result- ance public health con- though results were not whether to postpone the joined more than 2,500
ing logjam forced voters to cerns with voting rights in expected Tuesday night. election, as more than a National Guard troops dis-
wait together in lines span- the turbulent 2020 election A court ruling appeared to dozen states have done, patched to help staff vot-
ning several blocks in some season. prevent results from being was colored by a state ing stations. While many
cases. Many did not have Joe Biden hopes the state made public earlier than Supreme Court election voters stranded in lines
facial coverings. will help deliver a knockout next Monday. also being held Tuesday. A for more than an hour did
The chaos in Wisconsin, a blow against Bernie Sand- Democrats in and out of lower turnout was thought not have any protective
premiere general-election ers in the nomination fight, Wisconsin screamed for the to benefit the conservative equipment, Vos donned a
battleground, underscored but the winner of Tuesday's contest to be postponed, candidate. face mask, safety glasses,
the lengths to which the contest may be less signifi- yet Republicans — and the Lest there be any doubt gloves and a full protective
coronavirus outbreak has cant than Wisconsin's deci- conservative-majority state about the GOP's motiva- gown.q

Earl Graves Sr., founder of Black Enterprise magazine, dies

er's disease, his son, Earl Morgan State University. He one of the nation's largest
"Butch" Graves Jr, said in a held jobs in law enforce- soft-drink distributors owned
post on Twitter. ment and real estate be- by African Americans. He
Graves launched his mag- fore working on Sen. Robert sold his stake in the bottler
azine, Black Enterprise, in F. Kennedy's staff. to PepsiCo in 1998.
1970. He later said his aim After Kennedy's assassina- "As a little boy, I saw a
was to educate, inspire tion in 1968, he moved to magazine with something
and uplift his readers. found the magazine, which I'd never seen—a picture of
"My goal was to show them is now headed by his son. a Black man as the owner:
how to thrive profession- He served on the boards of Black Enterprise Founder &
ally, economically and as several major corporations, Publisher Earl G. Graves,"
proactive, empowered including American Air- tweeted Rev. Cornell Wil-
citizens," Graves wrote in lines, Daimler Chrysler and liam Brooks, a professor at
This Aug. 17, 1997 file photo shows Earl G. Graves Sr. with his his 1997 book "How to Suc- Rohm & Hass and backed Harvard's Kennedy School
book "How To Succeed In Business Without Being White" in New
York. Associated Press ceed in Business without the presidential bids of and former president
Being White." Jesse Jackson and Barack and CEO of the NAACP.
NEW YORK (AP) — Earl magazine focusing on According to an obituary Obama, Black Enterprise "Graves has died — after
Graves Sr., who champi- black entrepreneurs, has published by Black Enter- wrote. inspiring MILLIONS to suc-
oned black businesses as died. He was 85. prise, Graves grew up in In addition to Black Enter- ceed in business & beyond.
the founder of the first Af- Graves died Monday after Brooklyn and gained an prise, Graves also ran Pepsi- Inspired kids & so many oth-
rican American-owned a long battle with Alzheim- economics degree from Cola of Washington, D.C., ers mourn his passing."q