Talking Points Memo reports:
Clad in gloves, a mask and full-length gown, Wisconsin Speaker Robin Vos assured voters that it is “incredibly safe to go out” on Election Day despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vos is one of the main reasons the in-person election went ahead Tuesday, as he and his fellow Republicans fought both delaying the election and Democrats’ attempts to provide voters with more mail-in options.
“Actually there is less exposure here than you would get if you went to the grocery store or Walmart,” Vos added in a video captured by the local Journal Times at a polling place in Burlington that he volunteered to help staff.
Technically not “hazmat gear” but still.
This is real: Robin Vos, Spaker of Wisconsin State Assembly, on holding an election today: “You are incredibly safe to go out.” #NotOnionhttps://t.co/73KUQ4ocTu pic.twitter.com/ya5s1utE1N
— Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) April 7, 2020
@daveanthony This is Robin Vos. One of the GOP architects of voting in person in Wisconsin. Poll workers at other locations were given nothing. pic.twitter.com/9HMWzVEu3a
— The Notorious Rude S.L.G. (@SidewaysStu) April 7, 2020