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Barack Obama lashes out at Wisconsin for holding polls amid COVID-19 pandemic

PNN & Agencies
Updated: April 11th, 2020, 20:49 IST
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Washington: Barack Obama has hammered the choice to proceed with the current week’s political race in Wisconsin, which constrained a huge number of individuals out to the surveys in the midst of a statewide stay-at-home request planned for putting a break on the spread of the coronavirus.

The former president of United States of America, in a Twitter post Friday, portrayed the vote as a “disaster” and said “no one should be forced to choose between their right to vote and their right to stay healthy.”

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No one should be forced to choose between their right to vote and their right to stay healthy like the debacle in Wisconsin this week. https://t.co/fbDCbOb9qN

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 10, 2020

“Everyone should have the right to vote safely, and we have the power to make that happen. This shouldn’t be a partisan issue,” Obama said in a second post, followed by the third: “Let’s not use the tragedy of a pandemic to compromise our democracy. Check the facts of vote by mail.”

Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled state lawmaking body constrained the political decision to take place after it effectively claimed the Democratic representative’s organisation to delay.

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes considered the political race a “flat out fiasco,” resounding the hypothesis that Republicans needed a low turnout to support the odds of a preservationist state Supreme Court judge on the voting form.

President Donald Trump, however, Tuesday pushed paranoid ideas about the proposition to defer the political decision being an endeavor to smother Republicans. He additionally asserted mail-in polling forms “are a very dangerous thing for this country.”

Trump himself, in any case, has casted a ballot via mail, as CNN’s Anderson Cooper noted in a blistering fragment beneath, in spite of the fact that the president (who changed his main living place to Florida in 2019) has (falsely) guaranteed there is “a big difference between somebody that’s out of state and does a ballot and everything,” such as himself, and other people who vote via mail.

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