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In response to "This is different. There was still going to be an election on that day." by ty97

IOW, this wasn't about canceling/not canceling election day. It was about a change made to one race on the ballot -- nm

Posted by ty97 May 5 '20, 18:29

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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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