Connecticut Primary moved to June

[brooklynite]

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[PoliticAverse]

1. Good. Have they considered implementing voting by mail? n/t

[pnwmom]

13. Why is that good? The Coronavirus outbreak will probably be even worse.

[PoliticAverse]

14. Because delays now likely flattens the curve.

(See: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/11/flattening-curve-coronavirus/ )

Also by then Biden may be the only one running and there'd be no real reason to have to leave isolation to vote.

[pnwmom]

15. I want these Governors to switch to mail in ballots. It shouldn't take 3 months for that

[PoliticAverse]

16. Excellent timne to promote voting by mail. n/t

[George II]

17. We have absentee balloting with enough reasons for everyone to fit a category....

We drop off our applications with the Town Clerk, they mail ballots out which we mail back or give back to the Town Clerk or Registrar.

[femmedem]

2. Hallejeulah. n/t

[mikelgb]

3. Nice. I had forgotten that Lamont was the Gov.

have not seen his name in awhile

too bad it comes with the horrible memory of what Joe Lieberman did to him

[William769]

4. Please help me understand something

They are moving all these primaries to June but this pandemic is expected to last 18 months. I just can't make this compute.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Any delay likely helps to "flatten the curve"...

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/11/flattening-curve-coronavirus/

[William769]

6. Thanks for the link.

I just don't see flattening the curve anytime soon.

[BidenBacker]

20. Check out these new curves

if you wanna have the crap scared outta you...

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/3-charts-that-changed-coronavirus-policy-in-the-uk-and-us/

At least we're no longer doing "nothing" like Trump did the first 2 months. Hell, he did worse than nothing in the months and years before that. Given what's happening in Italy we may be kidding ourselves about moving everything to June.

If we had just prepared and had sufficient test kits on hand we wouldn't have had to put America into an induced coma to save the patient.

[former9thward]

7. Yet, when I said holding the Illinois primary last Tuesday, was irresponsible

I was told we had to have a primary, no matter the risk to election workers, because Trump would use any delay as an excuse to delay the November elections. I wonder what changed?

[Scurrilous]

9. The point stands despite individual states acting contrarily.

Hopefully better conditions eight months hence will render it moot.

[George II]

18. The CT primary is being postponed for six weeks which, when added to the six weeks before Apr 28...

...should allow time for this to be under better control.

The thoughts about postponing the Illinois primary was on a day or two before the primary - too little notice.

Of course it would be great if the need for all remaining primaries was rendered moot, but it looks like that's not going to happen.

[Scurrilous]

8. Convention in July so June is the furthest time from now to have it timely happen if it happens.

Or something...

[William769]

10. Thank you.

[Scurrilous]

11. You're welcome.

[PoliticAverse]

12. The last current scheduled primary (Kentucky) is June 23rd.

The convention starts July 13th.

[Scurrilous]

19. June is shaping up to be the time to emerge from the isolating and put the baby to bed.

Finally.