The New York State Board of Elections is considering pushing back the state’s presidential primary election date of April 28 as a precautionary measure against the COVID-19 pandemic.
When can i start complaining that the virus is really a Republican plot to make sure that there is no election because the orange one will surely lose if there is one?
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD Idea
I can hear the shouts of
rigged!
and
finger on the scale!
already
Postponing for a month isn’t harmful. The NY primary shouldn’t be cancelled. Don’t give “Bernie”, his followers, Trump, and Russian spies an excuse to divide our country by claiming it’s rigged. (My comment becomes irrelevant if “Bernie” suspends his campaign after tomorrow’s primary — if he loses badly as predicted).
You’ve got it backwards in the sense that it’s a Democratic plot to throw the election.
Since I haven’t unfriended certain people I went to high school with yet on Facebook, I got to see this screed posted from one of the more right-wing among them.
Yes, it is. New York City didn’t postpone their mayoral election after 9/11, even though Rudy proposed doing just that.
This is creating precedent which can be used in November at a National level by Trump to stay in power.
They did postpone the primary though since it was originally on 9/11.
I was actually at the polls at around 9:15 that morning when I caught wind that something was going on.
Pre-internet days in some respects and of course no televisions in the polling place so I had to go home to find out.
Scant open discussion of what Plan B is going to be for conducting the general election in November if this flu hasn’t burned it self out, run its course, or otherwise diminished to the point social distancing is no longer being insisted upon by national health authorities.
Okay, day of, hadn’t recalled that. But I do recall Rudy pushing to have it pushed back for a significant length of time.
I wouldn’t read too much into that.
It’s a bit premature.
Probably a lot of other things they’re more worried about right now.
Yep and endorsing Bloomberg if I recall correctly which may have had an impact.
Don’t think so. It’s not that far away, and very short in government time to come up with things like mail-in ballots for places that aren’t set up for that (usually, deliberately so).
Sure, just like back in November determining if we had enough tests for the populace was premature. I mean, it was limited to China. No reason to think, even at that early date, we’d ever have to deal with it.
It’s going to be Trump versus Biden, no matter what.
President Biden can work on streamlining/ safeguarding future elections once he assumes office.
Yeah, foreign intervention in the election sucks doesn’t it?
(also that person is out of his mind)
It’s not foreign.
It’s the DEMONcrats!
They’re in collusion with the Commies in China!
Why do you think all those Republicans are catching it?
They almost got Trump already!
But he’s impervious to the devil’s virus.
Although I take your point, I guess I’m just thinking the focus should be on the urgent thing first, at least in the next couple of weeks.
They’re shutting down all the schools in Kansas (I hear from my sisters that live there).
Wonder if they are in Oklahoma and if they’re not if I should engage in some inter-state rivalry snark about Oklahoma(ns).
We’re Democrats, not Republicans. Sure, one set of people needs to be focused on the short-term, but there need to be mid- and long-range planning teams working on the coming problems.
