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In response to "There’s really gonna be a lot of careful hypocrisy spreading if people applaud the NY judge’s decision to restore the N.Y. presidential primary but cr" by JackDawson

This is different. There was still going to be an election on that day.

Posted by ty97 May 5 '20, 18:28

They just removed the other candidates from the POTUS primary race.

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Well not in every county. I believe Cuomo said 23 districts or 23 pct of counties had nothing else at all, so it would avoid unnecessary social undist - JackDawson May 5, 18:30 2
- If we are going to be a Democracy, we need to figure out how to run election safely (hello mail ballots to everyone) -- nm - ty97 May 5, 18:31 1
  - Obviously -- nm - JackDawson May 5, 18:33
IOW, this wasn't about canceling/not canceling election day. It was about a change made to one race on the ballot -- nm - ty97 May 5, 18:29 12
- Incorrect as to a substantial number of NYS counties with increasing COVID exposure -- nm - JackDawson May 5, 18:30 11
  - Every district has something, though I guess there could be uncontested primaries for the House -- nm - ty97 May 5, 18:32 10
    - No, not according to Cuomo. The move permits NO elections at all in a not insubstantial portion of the state. Call them uncontested primaries if you w - JackDawson May 5, 18:34 8
      - Every House seat is up. 6/23 is the primary for House seats. So there can't be an district without a race. - ty97 May 5, 18:36 7
        
        I think he was saying there were districts that didn’t need a race, but in any case your point fails hard because as we all know Wisconsin needed to h - JackDawson May 5, 18:40 6
        
        But WI was moving there's to June when things were ramping up. It's not apples for apples. - ty97 May 5, 18:48 4
        
        Or move it all to August, or whatever. The same solutions apply. COVID either is or isn’t a concern. If that was the concern in Wisconsin then it’s th - JackDawson May 5, 18:55 3
        
        I still disagree. What we knew about COVID a month ago, how we've adapted to it in that time, is different. - ty97 May 5, 19:05 2
        
        And FTR, I don't think the March 17 primaries should have moved forward as we were still getting a handle on things. Those should have been delayed -- nm - ty97 May 5, 19:10 1
        
        So you decry the judges decision to hold more instead of less primary now, right, since we know more about how deadly COVID is now than we even knew b - JackDawson May 5, 22:37
        
        (Didn’t need and weren’t planning to hold an election) -- nm - JackDawson May 5, 18:40
    - In which case, yes, it would be the equivalent, barring some amazing write-in campaign, of having nothing on the ballot -- nm - ty97 May 5, 18:33

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This is different. There was still going to be an election on that day.

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