The Wisconsin vote was indeed insane. Wisconsin Republicans saw advantage in holding the vote. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers waffled for weeks, first supporting an election, then trying to stop it at the last minute, and desperately seeking to shove in new election rules without the benefit of legislation. This made a complete shambles of the law, and then conservatives on Wisconsin Supreme Court shot it down. And the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a federal court extension of time to cast absentee ballots.