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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou know what they are going to next...
.... if the Covid-19 takes off, 6 dead in Washington State right now, then I predict that they will shut down, in November, polling booths in jurisdictions that may be at risk of voting blue. Public safety don't you know. Sigh.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)mitch96
(13,816 posts)Block the borders and marshal law just before election day...
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Volaris
(10,260 posts)And even if there were, preventing half the adults in america from going to work for even 2 weeks would so wreck wall streets profit margins that it would never be tolerated.
And if it were tolerated, their margins would still be wrecked, with the added bonus that the people who work for a living in this country would know immediately and exactly HOW MUCH POWER WE ACTUALLY HAVE to get shit done.
And that WILL NOT be allowed lol.
Kablooie
(18,571 posts)to call martial law and shut election down, "temporarily"
This is exactly how Hitler became dictator by ordering temporary martial law and then never rescinding it.
And Trump has studied Hitler. His ex-wife said he had a book of Hitler speeches next to his bed.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,780 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)I'm sure in some states they'd be more than happy to cancel election day, but not all. Sometimes the best way to get people to do something is to tell them they can't.