Judge Rules New York Presidential Primary Back On

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In a stupid, ultimately pointless lawsuit.

Exactly.

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Good. I’m happy with rulings upholding holding elections. Bad enough that we’ve been delaying them, outright cancellations is a horrid precedent to have.

Plenty of time to get ballots mailed out to folks and back.

ETA: And it is important to note that the ability of the board of elections to drop people from the ballot on suspension of their campaign was a new addition, coming after all the folks had suspended their campaigns. Changing the rules in the middle of the game rarely has good optics.

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This is excellent news.

  1. Cuomo’s outright cancellation of the presidential candidate was unique in the country–and a very dangerous precedent for elections in the future.

  2. The cancellation had a corrupt purpose: to reduce the turnout of progressive Democratic challengers in down-ballot races. Cuomo has been doing this for years: suppressing the vote by getting the B of E (a panel of Cuomo appointees) to do his bidding and filling the calendar with highly obscure elections that can be controlled by pro-Cuomo union block voting.

  3. Cuomo fears progressive primaries because of his experience with the IDC. Cuomo went to great lengths to set up the IDC–a group of ‘independent’ Democrats who caucused with the GOP in Albany in return for corrupt favors. In 2017, almost every one of the IDC lost their primary despite Cuomo’s support.

  4. The reason Cuomo fears legitimate Democrats more than Republicans is that he is a de facto corrupt Republican. He just forced through a budget that cuts billions of dollars in education and health services to pay for the pandemic budget shortfalls. He refused to raise taxes on the billionaires by one penny. The refusal was corrupt because Cuomo’s financial backing comes from rightwing real estate and hedge fund guys, among them his great pal Steven Schwarzman, a Republican billionaire who compared Obama to Hitler.

  5. Cuomo belongs to the generation of utterly crooked Albany politicians. Anyone interested might want to read this, about Cuomo’s righthand man Joseph Percoco and his prosecution by the excellent Preet Bharara: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/nyregion/howe-cuomo-albany-percoco-corruption.html

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BTW, folks who claim they are suing purely for the principal of the matter are usually doing anything but.

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Where did you find all that tin foil during the pandemic? Does Amazon still have some in stock?

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That’s your opinion.

Obviously, you can’t see the point in what the judge said:

“If all but one of the presidential candidates [were] removed from the ballot and the primary [were] not held, Delegate Plaintiffs [would] be deprived of the opportunity to compete for delegate slots and shape the course of events at the Convention, and voters [would] lose the chance to express their support for delegates who share their views ,” ruled U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New York.

If this seems “pointless,” sleep well.

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Which bit is tinfoil stuff? Or are you this guy?

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What a steaming pantload.
I can smell it from here.

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Point out which part is wrong.

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All of it, Katie.

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Every word, including “and” and “the.”

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But what if they’re doing it for the assistant principal?

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The outcome will not change. All this does is expose more people to threat of infection.

So, yes, by definition, stupid and ultimately pointless:

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You have said so, a number of times.

Thanks.

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Is there anything about this ruling that requires it to be an in-person primary?

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Nope. They already had a full plan in place for total mail-in voting.

Also, everyone’s still going to the grocery store every few weeks, despite the risk. One stop at the ballot box to preserve the most precious right we have is, IMHO, worth the risk. Unless we’re just going to freeze everything in place for the next two years and just let Trump stay in office until a vaccine is developed…

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You’re welcome. You seem to have trouble grasping the concept, so it bears repeating.

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And not one response yet to your five points.

Not one that can’t be dismissed as fatuous, I mean.

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“To prevent crowding at poll places.” So folks will still be voting in person, too. Reading is fundamental.

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The point being that they don’t have to at all, they can all do it from home.

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