Democratic Primaries

apnu

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7. True, but the infra was there, we can't make the people do much

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 07:55 AM

Mar 2020

Only encourage and provide easy ways to get there.

Early voting, and vote by mail was an option in Illinois.

I suspect COVID-19 will impact how we vote nationwide. I hope states are ramping up vote by mail production.

Democracy must carry on. We had elections during all our wars, famously the Civil War (Imagine if Lincoln lost his re-election), but also the deadly Spanish Flu.

If we can’t continue to function as a democracy, if the voice of the people is silenced here with this crisis, then we are too weak to carry on.

I don’t think we are that weak. We need to make unexpected changes. It will be messy, but we can do it.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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The reason Illinois didn't defer the primary was because there is no assurance that the virus [View all] still_one Mar 2020 OP

Governor Pritzker was following the law. mucifer Mar 2020 #1

Sure, but i heard either MSNBC or CNN, suggesting that still_one Mar 2020 #2

But why not postpone and... consider_this Mar 2020 #3

in Chi-town... apnu Mar 2020 #4

nice, but I don't recall getting that. consider_this Mar 2020 #5

True, but the infra was there, we can't make the people do much apnu Mar 2020 #7

It only makes common sense... TY, still_one! Cha Mar 2020 #6