Governor Maryland Larry Hogan (R) announced Tuesday that he’d delay the state’s April 28 primary until June 2, and hold a mail-in special election to fill the congressional seat vacated by the death of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD).
More shenanigans. If you can gin up the special election to vote by mail in time, you can do the primary by mail in time.
Is this going to be a wake up call that the whole voting/election enchilada has to be rethought, renovated, and ultimately revised? Can we start with the length of the election season? The reworking/ reauthorizing of the Voter Right’s Act? And by gum can we get everyone updated equipment?
Was Hogan the one that wanted to run in the primary against trump* awhile back?
Makes me wonder how large of a lead Joe Biden has in Maryland?
Seems to be a theme afoot…
Your OneWordAnswer™: No.
Republicans have long ago crunched the numbers, and they’re happy with the current set-up, as it works to their advantage. Vote-by-mail nationwide would increase turnout significantly by lowering the barrier to voting. Liberal-leaning folks have the numbers, so any increase in their turnout means lost elections for republicans.
Hey, the Russians/GOP are working very hard on this.
Maryland has eight congressional districts. Only one of them is involved in the special election. I have no problem imagining that the state is capable of getting mail ballots out to 12.5% of the state’s voters within the span of a couple weeks time, but also unable to to do so for 100% of the state’s voters in that same timespan.
“Per state law, Hogan could’ve made the decision to go all mail-in unilaterally.”
With the added benefit that Russia can’t hack paper!
Time to make the transition everywhere?
Yes it is. The Democrats in Texas have started a call and a petition to the sec of state to switch our election over to mail in ballots.
I don’t see a problem - we have a significant percentage of mail-in ballots now. There’s plenty of time before November.
IIRC Klob had said that she and others were working on the Nov 2020 elections…making it possible for the GOP to be controlled.
The ACLU is also involved. We aren’t stupid anymore - we can see what they’re trying to do and there really will be hell to pay. The Democrats are not just going to sit on their hands and let the GOP steal this election.
Don’t trust the pubbies; never will.
You are the anti “yeah-but-his-minions-will-eat-that-up”.
Defeatism will be our undoing.
W/r/t these daily pressers of Trump (which he is using in place of rallies)…I had thought about alternative messaging…but on second thought, maybe Trump, the “Self-Impeacher” (Nancy) may be able to fuck himself over with these abominable displays of emotional depravity.
I wasn’t crazy about 100% vote-by-mail when it was introduced here in Washington. I miss the ritual of going to the polling place. Hell, I missed the clunky old voting machines with levers we had back in Philadelphia. But I’m absolutely a believer now. Vote by mail, everywhere, all the time.
We seem as always to be suffering from a torrent of news from only one side of things - all things - the worst side.
Only.
And I don’t think people should go out and vote in person right now anyway. I think it’s extremely dangerous.
Despite Hogan being the governor, Maryland is still a blue (hard blue) state.
That said, poor Bernie.
The Texas Elections Code prescribes the forms of in-person and absentee voting. I don’t think we could eliminate in-person polling without substantial legislative revisions, and there are no provisions for elections officials to send out mail-in ballots except to individual voters who request an absentee ballot.
A VBM (VoteByMail) National Policy is what we need. And, most importantly, Trump needs to be made aware that he CANNOT CHEAT and win in this election.
Let’s see how he handles that.
W/r/t the side of news we get…I am of the opinion that Les Moonves had it “right” all along:
“Trump may be bad for the Country, but he’s good ($$$$$$$) for CBS”. The OutRage Industry has made untold billions in these four years.
Over the BACKS of hard-working Americans who only want a decent Democratic Republic for themselves and their families.
I look at it this way:
Soldier/Mercenary
Cop/Dirty Cop
Journalist/Hack