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In reply to the discussion: a horrendous precedent if governor is allowed to violate a court order and delay an election. [View all]Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Woohoo!
As to your last point - it's irrelevant. Your whole point is irrelevant. You can't have it both ways. Either it's absolutely vital to keep people out of the polls or it isn't. The stakes of the election, or the timing, is irrelevant. See, this is where your whole argument falls apart and why it's so flimsy in the first place. If it's about the actual health of the population, and there is no reasonable way to hold an election without risking the lives of millions, you can't suggest that automatically just changes in November - unless you're willing to admit that it's not the well-being of the people that's at the root of the issue here but the expendability of the election.
At the end of the day, precautions can be taken, as is the case when people go grocery shopping (which is still permitted in Ohio mind you) to not only uphold the Democratic process but also do so in a safe manner.
But what you don't seem to get, or refuse to acknowledge for some silly reason, is that once you justify postponing one election, especially when you defy the goddamn courts, you've opened that door to it happening again in the future. Sometimes all it takes is that one moment to change the mentality and justification of doing it. Then next thing you know, 20 years from now, elections are scarcer than ever before.
If we could hold an election during the Civil War and the Spanish Flu and World War II, we certainly can during this pandemic. In fact, we better get used to the idea because it's possible if we're going to have ANY election between now and the end of the primaries, we'll have to do it with these limitations.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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