The liberal running for state Supreme Court said Tuesday's election should not have been held and alleged last-minute court decisions about voting were designed to help her conservative opponent.

"They wanted to suppress votes and they succeeded in suppressing votes," Dane County Circuit Judge Jill Karofsky said Friday.

Karofsky is running for a 10-year term on the court against conservative Justice Daniel Kelly. Results won't be known until next week.

Karofsky also harshly criticized Assembly Speaker Robin Vos of Rochester for pushing to have the election held in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

"You've got a guy in Robin Vos who talks about how safe it is to vote, how it's no problem to vote and then he shows up (as a poll worker in Burlington), he's down there in a full-on personal protective equipment that many medical professionals in this state aren't able to get their hands on," Karofsky said of the Republican speaker.

"How on one day do you say it's perfectly safe to vote and the next day you're dressed head to toe in PPE to work the polls? The hypocrisy is unbelievable."

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An aide to Vos did not immediately react to Karofsky's comments, but the speaker has said all poll workers in Burlington were required to wear protective gear. He has faced widespread criticism for saying, "You are incredibly safe to go out" while wearing a plastic gown, rubber gloves, face mask and plastic glasses.

Karofsky's criticism of holding the election is new. In an interview a week and a half before the election she didn't answer whether she thought the election should be postponed. She said then she was focused on the scheduled election day because it hadn't been delayed.

On Monday, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers tried to block the election with an executive order that was quickly overturned by the state Supreme Court on a 4-2 margin.

Kelly did not participate in the vote,but made clear on Twitter he thought the election should be held as scheduled.

"We can do two things at the same time: maintain the foundations of our democracy while taking reasonable precautions to keep people safe," he wrote the day before the election.

In a separate action, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned part of a federal court ruling that had been issued days earlier. In that 5-4 decision, the nation's high court declined to extend a deadline to return absentee ballots.

Kelly's campaign did not immediately respond to Karofsy's comments.

Asked if her campaign might take legal action, Karofsky said, "We're going to look at all of our options."

"We have been talking about corruption in the Wisconsin state Supreme Court, corruption on the state and federal level since this campaign started," she said. "And I think for many people that idea of corruption in the judiciary crystalized on Monday evening."

Karofsky added: "I think we should not have had this election on Tuesday. And we had an election on Tuesday because of a decision at the Wisconsin state Supreme Court and because of the decision at U.S. Supreme Court and if you read both those decisions and you look at what happened procedurally, in both of those instances, it doesn't take a legal scholar to realize that both those decisions were outcome-driven."

Karofsky criticized the state Supreme Court for giving Evers 15 minutes to file a brief in the case.

"Fifteen minutes," she said. "What was he supposed to do, like tweet out a 240-character answer? We're talking about a case that is going to impact this state for years and years to come."

She indicated the justices were hypocritical for remotely rendering a decision that required in-person voting.

"To turn around and to say go ahead and vote in person, it doesn't make any sense to anybody and the only conclusion people are able to draw that it is corruption and voter suppression," she said. "They wanted to do everything they could to keep Dan Kelly on the court."