( Reuters) – Liberal challenger Jill Karofsky won a hotly contested race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday, beating a conservative incumbent in state elections marred by court difficulties and worries about health risks from the coronavirus pandemic.
FILE PICTURE: Voter Matt Phillips feeds his completed ballot into a counting maker inside a ballot station at Hamilton High School during the presidential main election, held amidst the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) outbreak, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., April 7,2020 REUTERS/Daniel Acker/File Picture
Karofsky upset Dan Kelly, who was endorsed by Republican politician President Donald Trump, for a 10- year court term that could help decide future voting rights and redistricting problems in Wisconsin, an essential basic election battleground.
The Supreme Court race highlighted a slate of thousands of elections held recently for state and local offices, as well as a presidential main. The release of the outcomes was postponed by court order till Monday, the deadline for receiving absentee ballots.
Democrats stated a flurry of Republican legal difficulties blocking efforts to delay last Tuesday’s in-person voting had actually backfired severely, and implicated Republicans of putting political top priorities over public security.
” Regardless of the outcome, the reality that this in-person