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Voting in a pandemic: Officials sound alarm about November elections
CBS "News" ^ | April 10, 2020 | By Musadiq Bidar, Caitlin Huey-Burns, Adam Brewster and Sarah Ewall-Wice

Posted on 04/10/2020 6:29:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The legal and political battles in Wisconsin, along with the gripping images of voters donning facial masks and gloves standing in hours-long, socially-distanced lines to cast ballots Tuesday, could be just a preview of what lies ahead, as states across the country anticipate the lingering impact of the pandemic on the presidential election in November.

Election officials from both parties are already sounding the alarm about the need for more resources to ensure health safety and expand alternatives to in-person and day-of voting. They also anticipate protracted partisan fights over what the general election could and should look like in the age of Coronavirus.

"We cannot let our Democracy be causality of the current health pandemic. We cannot wait until October to gear up for alternative methods to vote. We have to get ahead of it, we have to start now," said Alex Padilla, California's secretary of state. "There is an urgency here."

The concept of mail-in voting is at the forefront of the debate over how to proceed with November's election. Four states already conduct their general elections by mail, and Hawaii is set to become the fifth state to move entirely to vote-by-mail with elections this year. Another 28 states and Washington D.C. offer "no-excuse" absentee or mail voting, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Now, Democrats are pushing for it to be implemented nationwide. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Ron Wyden have introduced legislation to "ensure that voters in all states have 20 days of early in-person voting and no-excuse absentee vote-by-mail."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ballotharvesting; election; election2020; fraud; pandemic; voterid; voting; wisconsin
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1 posted on 04/10/2020 6:29:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wear masks and lie about who you are.


2 posted on 04/10/2020 6:31:46 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If this thing isn’t over by November, there won’t be a reason to vote. We’ll be too busy foraging for food and trying to protect our gardens from invaders, lol!


3 posted on 04/10/2020 6:32:49 AM PDT by allwrong57
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They have gone through endless attempts to force Trump from office or create an environment where he is unpopular and would lose in 2020. Their efforts have all failed.

All they have left is an attempt to steal the election, and this year that effort has to be significantly larger than all previous efforts to steal elections.

Any discussion about the Nov election and the pandemic is really just strategizing to steal the election for the Democrat who didn't campaign in the primary season and who has not yet been officially selected.

Pure Banana Republic stuff.

4 posted on 04/10/2020 6:34:52 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Are they using the same alarmists they use for the global warming propaganda?


5 posted on 04/10/2020 6:34:57 AM PDT by Obadiah (Kill the deep state or lose the Republic.)
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To: All

Mail voting is the rat end game and if they get it we lose.


6 posted on 04/10/2020 6:36:24 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you can go to the grocery store you can go vote.

L


7 posted on 04/10/2020 6:36:36 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Unhinged


8 posted on 04/10/2020 6:37:11 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Voting in person is no problem, There is a way.

Put EVERYONE on on Hydroxy-chloroquin prophylaxis dosage. ( 1 x 200 mg HCQ/day, 1 x 220 mg Zinc sulphate or other Zinc vitamin/day)We need our representatives running the country, not deep state plutocrats.And the people will have no worries about getting infected if they vote.

Otherwise China destroys our democracy.

Our future is being destroyed and forcing us into being a socialist nation.


9 posted on 04/10/2020 6:40:01 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Four people (and two with hyphenated surnames) wrote this load from the Media Party. I don’t think I’d trust these people much, lol.


10 posted on 04/10/2020 6:40:17 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: Lurker
"If you can go to the grocery store you can go vote."

Thanks, Lurker. Sanity in a sea of... Dem panic, I guess...

11 posted on 04/10/2020 6:47:22 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: OttawaFreeper
https://twitter.com/chrisbergPOVNOW/status/1247680994821509121

What is the primary benefit to keep public in mass-hysteria re: COVID-19?
Think voting.
Are you awake yet?


12 posted on 04/10/2020 6:48:44 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: allwrong57

It will be over well before November but the media and democrats will be making the call.


13 posted on 04/10/2020 6:51:04 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: bagster

Of course! And why “voting”?


14 posted on 04/10/2020 6:54:48 AM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This must be really important. It took 4 authors.


15 posted on 04/10/2020 6:55:56 AM PDT by pas
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We can stand in lines at the grocery store but we can’t stand in a line to vote?


16 posted on 04/10/2020 6:56:38 AM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"We cannot let our Democracy be causality of the current health pandemic."

But that's exactly what the Democrat Party wants...

"We cannot wait until October to gear up for alternative methods to vote. We have to get ahead of it, we have to start now"

Don't tell me. Let me guess:

Online voting?
Mail-in ballots?
Psychics to divine the voters' intentions?

17 posted on 04/10/2020 6:58:04 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Thank God for President Trump!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If Democrats are pushing for voting by mail it is only because it will benefit them.


18 posted on 04/10/2020 7:01:16 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This sounds like a perfect plan to eliminate Voting Machines, once and for all. Paper ballots!!


19 posted on 04/10/2020 7:02:11 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: gibsonguy

That, my friend, is when CW2 goes full auto.


20 posted on 04/10/2020 7:03:11 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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