Georgia To Postpone Primaries Over Virus; 2nd State To Do So

[appalachiablue]

Source: PBS NewsHour

ATLANTA — Georgia election officials are postponing the state’s March 24 presidential primaries until May because of fears over the coronavirus. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement that in-person early voting, which began statewide March 2, will be halted and the election will be moved to May 19, when Georgia’s other 2020 primary elections are being held.

The action followed Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s signature of an emergency declaration that unlocked sweeping powers to fight COVID-19. In a speech Saturday, the governor renewed a call for places of worship, schools and others to consider canceling large gatherings as cases in the state rise.

As of Saturday, the virus had infected more than 150,000 people worldwide and killed over 5,600. Georgia is reporting 66 confirmed cases, with most concentrated around metro Atlanta. One death in the state has been caused by the virus.

Election officials said in addition to the safety of the public, one of the biggest considerations was the risk the virus posed to poll workers, who are often older. On Friday, Louisiana became the first state to push back its presidential primaries.


Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/georgia-to-postpone-primaries-over-virus-2nd-state-to-do-so

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- Georgia State Capitol building.

[rocktivity]

1. If Dystopian Don can ride this out through the summer

It's entirely possible we won't get to have an election


rocktivity

[Indykatie]

4. That Was The First Thought That Came to My Mind

At least after Tuesday's primaries Biden should have a lead big enough to support his nomination if more states cancel their primaries.

[cstanleytech]

5. Legally then Pelosi becomes President as soon as Trumps first term officially expires.

[C Moon]

9. And Trump and GOP have such a great track-record with doing everything legally.

[cstanleytech]

11. There is nothing they can do to stop it as long as the Democrats retain the majority in the House.

Not even SCOTUS has a say in it.

[onenote]

13. Wouldn't Pelosi's term also expire?

There will be elections in November.

[cstanleytech]

14. Well since all it says is who becomes President she probably

would be in office for atleast 4 years assuming she did not try to run for a 2nd term.

[onenote]

15. Her term expires on January 3.

The President's term doesn't expire until January 20.

Per the Constitution.

So if there are no deletions, every seat in the House is vacant and House vacancies can only be filled by an election (also per the Constitution). Sort of a Catch 22.

In the meantime, Chuck Grassley arguably would become President.

[sarisataka]

19. No she doesn't

go back and re-read the Constitution, specifically Article 2 Section 1 and the 12th Amendment

[DENVERPOPS]

6. The repubs are going to

go at destroying the election from multiple angles.......you ain't seen nothing yet folks........

[pangaia]

10. jesus. I said this here time and again for what.. 2 years, maybe?

And almost everybody just laughs at me.

there ain;t going to be any election

we're fucked

[FloridaBlues]

2. This will be the non ending primaries!

[Perseus]

7. Democrats are going to have to come up with a solution...

There are a couple of solutions, one that Sanders supporters may not like, and I don't like either but..., should Sanders concede now?

Should DNC come up with online voting? This, of course is dangerous, although they could hire a reputable company to do it, one that can secure the vote.

My concern right now is that the creature and his enablers will use this to postpone the election, and the creature and his enablers will be sitting in power longer creating more havoc.

[csziggy]

3. Here in Florida I already voted in our primary

So I will be upset if they delay it, seeing as most cases in this state are people who had contact with Dolt45.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. simple solution to this . mail in ballots for everyone , period.

and keep it that way. forget the other metholds of voting.

[Igel]

16. Simple.

But it requires just abandoning a lot of laws wholesale. "*We* think we need to do it, and we are the principals." Usually the logic becomes an appeal to authority, which boils down to an appeal to us.

A lot of the thinking is like what we see above. "If there's no election, then the Speaker of the House becomes president when Trump's term expires!" I mean, because the Constitution! It says so, right there. Wee-haw! Presumably as though elected to a regular term, even--it doesn't explicitly demand we think otherwise (even if the context makes it pretty clear it's until there's an election).

But the Speaker's term expires first, so when Trump's term expires, if there are no elections, there will be no lawful speaker of the house. Think it through and it all falls through.

If you want some idea as to what the PTB think will happen in the event of a real emergency, whether natural biological, artificial biological, space weather, nuclear, chemical, or natural disaster that makes it so that portions of the executive branch, legislative branch, or judicial branch cannot function, there's an executive order establishing a number of continuity of government mechanisms that are graduated (and some of them are classified) to cover if there's a partial government shutdown by any branch up to massive failure on the part of all three branches. Most here, I suspect, have forgotten that they even exist. The last furor over them was when Bush II issued his version of the executive order and he was a tyrant for what he said. (Said furor dissipated when somebody finally convinced most that Bush II's EO was almost word for word what Clinton's was. Nobody wanted to hear that Clinton's was almost exactly Reagan's. Obama added space weather to his, but only RWers bothered to freak out over the tyranny contained therein. Trump hasn't bothered to produce his own recension, else we'd have been reminded about it.)

But for the state elections, it's up to the states and their laws. The feds have little to say over it except to the extent they can wedge due process in under the tent door and have the entire federal camel follow.

[crickets]

12. I was wondering what we were going to do about this.

I am already self quarantined at this point and could not decide what to do about voting. Given the machines and those stupid data cards getting used and handled over and over, it makes sense that they do this. BUT - somebody better be coming up with a way for all of us to vote. Start printing mail in ballots now, do something. We cannot take one extra day from the tangerine terror in the White House. Not one.

[Igel]

17. That would be the state governments.

They'll have to find some way to have candidates nominated in those states that lack current nominees for the fall ballot (that may be all of them, for all I know).

Then states have to find some way of having elections for the electors Remember: We have no national elections. We have state elections. The ones for national office (which are all state representatives) are mandated to be on the same day in the fall. There's a ( national ( election day) ), but no national elections and therefore no ( (national election) day). There I used parenthesis to group words according to their sense (categorical grammar would argue this is meaningless like bracketing paradoxes, which all resolve to give only the right reading; while that theory has a valid point, it's hard to be categorical about its claims because, well, there are mild counterexamples like this one, and often the "right reading" at the end isn't the only reading possible, making the theory underspecified).


On edit: I probably shouldn't post. Got sick last night--fever, congestion, and insomnia. And fevers give me all kinds of atrial flutter or transient atrial fibrillation, which leaves me grumpy, mildly disoriented, and generally short of breath with an all-encompassing "everything can go eff itself and anything nearby" attitude. Yes, there's a non-zero chance it's covid. No, I'm not going to get COVID tested. Chalk it up to the grumpiness and disorientation if you want. I chalk it up to a visceral aversion to dealing with my health-insurance provider's website that makes burning at the stake, pressing, iron maidens (both the device and the band) and bamboo shoots under the fingernails seem kind and benevolent by comparison. Yes, I do need to buy groceries today or tomorrow. I think I'll go lie down now, maybe my head'll stop spinning.)

[oldsoftie]

18. So Biden will have to wait a couple weeks to get our delegates.

because he wont lose Georgia