Baltimore Sun: In an unprecedented move, New York has canceled its Democratic presidential primary originally scheduled for June 23 amid the coronavirus epidemic.
The Democratic members of the State’s Board of Elections voted Monday to nix the primary. New York will still hold its congressional and state-level primaries on June 23.
New York Democratic Party chair Jay Jacobs has said that the cancellation of the state’s presidential primary would mean a lower expected turnout and a reduced need for polling places.
“It just makes so much sense given the extraordinary nature of the challenge,” Jacobs said last week.
Local election officials and voting groups have called on the state to use federal funds to purchase cleaning supplies and protective gear, and boost staff ahead of 2020 elections.
Both the state’s Democratic Party and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have said they didn’t ask election commissioners to make the change, which is allowed thanks to a little-known provision in the recently passed state budget that allows the New York board of elections to remove names of any candidates who have suspended or terminated their campaign from the ballot. read more
I can’t tell you how much muscle I’ve gained rolling my eyes this past several months.
Would be very embarrassing if Bernie beat Joe after dropping out.
What about the rest of the election, New York?
Might as well lob New York off. Throw out California, too, so the country doesn’t tip over like Guam.
Seems to me that if anything this would give any R’s a little help, since all the other voting apart from Dem presidential nominee will still happen.
All part of the grand design. Can’t nominate Joe at the convention, because the primaries were interrupted. Now what to do, what to do? Is there anyone who could ride in to save the day? Possibly female?
It’s a pro forma exercise anyway. One party rule. Communist party. Literally. Comrade De Blasio. Fake wife. Total fuck up. Re-elected without a challenge.
They want to return to seedy Time Square, graffiti, needles in the park, rapists in the loose, confiscatory taxes. I can’t think of one thing they are doing that they should be doing differently.
No one should be allowed to leave though. They voted for it. Now lie in it.
@MJA: Now you look like Marty Feldman?
Demo commies in a panic. Castro, Maduro, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, all gone. Pelosi, Clintons, Gore, Schumer, Bill Ayers, Soros, Obama. All about to turn into oil. Who’s left?
Bernie Bros get hosed again! … evidently a bunch of masochists & flagellants
“Feel the Bern” ….. lmao!!!! 😜😂🤣