The NYT has a long article about the "upset" "significant victory" of the "liberal challenger" to the "Trump-backed incumbent" of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Link. Excerpt:

The challenger for the court seat, Jill Karofsky, ousted the conservative incumbent, Justice Daniel Kelly, in a contest with broad potential implications for voting rights in Wisconsin’s November general election. Justice Kelly became just the second incumbent State Supreme Court justice to be ousted at the polls since 1967. President Trump had boasted that his endorsement of Justice Kelly had unnerved Democrats in the state....

The decisive Democratic win offered a signal that the party, highly energized and mobilized heading into 2020, could organize and execute a winning get-out-the-vote program against strident Republican efforts to limit voter turnout in a narrowly divided state widely expected to be crucial in this fall’s presidential election....

Wisconsin Democrats spent the last week in a state of fury, angry that Republicans had forced in-person voting and risked spreading the coronavirus.

If Kelly had won, that fury would have spiraled upward.

Democrats spent the hours before results were released Monday afternoon bracing for a defeat and making the case that the Wisconsin contest was illegitimate....

Ben Wikler, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, said many lawsuits would be filed by voters who were unable to cast absentee ballots, or by candidates in the nearly 4,000 local races that were on the state’s ballot....

“It’s hard to imagine none of those candidates don’t wind up looking for legal recourse,” Mr. Wikler said Monday morning. By the evening, Mr. Wikler called the result “a victory for justice and democracy in an election that should never have taken place in person.”...

Major efforts by both parties to get their voters to request ballots led to the largest absentee turnout in the state’s history — more than one million votes by mail, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, which said the number was already most likely higher and would rise as all the votes were counted.... Still, voters across the state reported problems receiving and returning absentee ballots....

We'll see what form the litigation takes. Both parties should want to restore confidence in voting as the fall elections approach. I'll just add that I did not vote this time around, even though I have always voted in the past. You don't know which candidate I would have voted for, and I don't think I've ever publicly stated how I've voted in a judicial election. But I didn't vote because I wanted to reserve my right to vote in person in November and the website the state offered for requesting a mail-in ballot required me to commit to voting by mail for the rest of the year. (And lest you doubt me, I discuss my experience, with screenshots, here — at the second update.)