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.
Board co-chair Douglas Kellner told the New York Times on Sunday that state officials may move the elections to June 23.
However, it would be up New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and the New York State Legislature to approve the change, according to Kellner.
Nothing has been officially decided yet.
Cuomo stated on Sunday that the number of coronavirus cases in New York has reached more than 700 and that three people had died from the virus.
The New York City Health Department announced that as of Sunday evening, there are currently 329 cases of the coronavirus in the city. NYC’s public school system has been shut down, and bars and restaurants in the city will be restricted to delivery and take-out only beginning on Tuesday.
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.