BREAKING: NYS considering whether to delay April Primary (per Morning Joe)

[brooklynite]

[Dennis Donovan]

1. They'd better start printing and mailing ballots - getting ahead of the curve n/t

[NurseJackie]

2. How about expanding it instead. Two or three days... to allow for social distancing.

How about expanding it instead. Two or three days... to allow for social distancing.

Allow any registered voter to show up and vote on ANY day... but suggest that voters space themselves out based on the day of their birth. If born on the 1st through the 10th... show up on day-1. If born on the 11th-20th... show up on day 2. If born on the 21st-31st... day three.

Lines would be less crowded and congested... voting centers would be less crowded.

Unfortunately, the borrowed spaces used for voting would need to be "returned" to the owner (church/school/community center) and the volunteers at the polling place didn't sign-up for three days.

Maybe this is something that can be put in place for the next epidemic.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I'm a NY State Dem committee member and election judge...

Our elections are run by the counties with minimal interference from the state, although the state has the ultimate authority.

NY primaries are subject to Byzantine laws primarily designed to reduce competition.

We have ballot readers that are approaching the end of their lives and positioning them for more than one day at a time in schools, churches, malls, etc is problematic.

Paying election workers $200-300 a day each for several additional days can hurt the county budget big time.

We do not have a working plan for absentee or otherwise non-personal voting. We are really hopelessly behind in that.

It would be nice if this causes the state and counties to wake up, but I don't see it happening any time soon..

[democrattotheend]

6. Didn't we put in a plan after Sandy?

I thought NY had a contingency plan for elections that was put in place after Sandy. Or was one discussed and never actually acted on?

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Not to my knowledge.

[brooklynite]

9. You may be thinking of NJ...

..which extended voting after Sandy hit

[TomCADem]

4. Or, They Could Just Expand the Dates of the Election and...

...allow for expanded use of mail ballots and drop off boxes. Colorado and California use this model.

[andym]

5. There is a great danger that the end of the primary will be delayed into the summer

which would not be good for the Democratic party.

[treestar]

8. They have time to arrange mail in

Just should not become a thing. And when do they propose having it? It's not cancelled, just rescheduled.