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Posted on 03/14/2020 5:46:27 PM PDT by jazusamo
On Saturday, Georgia became the second state to postpone its primary elections amid growing concern over the spread of the Wuhan virus. Louisiana announced earlier this week that it would be moving back its primary as a result of the coronavirus. Georgia's primary, originally scheduled for March 24, will now be held on May 19.
"Events are moving rapidly and my highest priority is protecting the health of our poll workers, their families, and the community at large," Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"Our priority is to protect the health and safety of all Georgians and to ensure that as many Georgians as possible have an opportunity to vote," Nikema Williams, chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia said in a statement. "Continued in-person voting could compromise both goals."
Georgia's new date means that the presidential primary in the state will coincide with primary elections for state and local offices. While in-person early voting in Georgia has been suspended, the state's Democratic Party chair, Nikema Williams, says absentee ballots and votes that were already cast in-person for the presidential primary would still be counted.
Georgia's move follows the state of Louisiana's announcement on Friday that its primary, which was scheduled for April 4, would be moved to June 20. Municipal elections in Louisiana will now be held on July 25.
The Wuhan virus has prompted the closure of many schools across the country and the postponement of professional sports games. Some state and local governments have taken to the drastic measure of prohibiting large gatherings to combat the spread of the virus.
While Georgia and Louisiana may be playing it safe, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and Ohio are going forward with their primary elections set for Friday, March 17.
Well,now we have to postpone the November election indefinitely.
Should I take seriously any author who doesn’t know that March 17 is a Tuesday?
That will definitely get all the Dems calling it a Hoax.
I would venture a guess that’s a typo.
I would object strenuously except the two presidential nominees are almost 100% set. Can’t speak for state offices.
Yep, the two Dems running are like voting for twiddly dee or twiddly dum.
... twiddly dum or twiddly dumber
One has a bad heart, one has a bad brain. Put them together, and you have even a worse candidate!
Right on.
I don’t doubt they will run together as P and VP.
You had best protect the integrity of our electoral process, bub.
The Democrat party destroyed that years ago.
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Our country is for the time being a total cluster f*ck.
+1 for using “Wuhan virus” instead of “COVID-19” or whatever.
TOMORROW WE’RE STORMING THE GATES OF HEAVEN!!! God is with us!!!
Despite the cancellation of the primary, Stacey Abrams is declaring victory anyway.
The obvious gag of our saying "Due to the crisis taking away campaigning, door to door voter contact, town meetings and even polling place staff (average age 70) ,we will let President Trump stay in office for two more years before an election." is sounding less and less like a joke.
We could have a science fiction dystopia situation of a good looking candidate with great speaking voice and says the right soundbite things----but is a cgi as in a movie with highly realistic dinosaurs and space wars.
Exciting but a con job all along. About twenty people ever actually saw him or say they did. No crowds or meetings. Or those could be cgi'd onto the TV ads, too.
Silly drama queens.
We had elections on schedule through the Civil War. We even had elections in 1812. And through 2 world wars.
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