Will any Super-Tuesday ballots be re-printed without Steyer's name?

[NurseJackie]

Or will his presence on the ballots continue to benefit Sanders by unnecessarily peeling votes away from other more moderate and pragmatic candidates?

Or will the polling staff provide voters with a "correction sheet" or a printed notice of some sort that indicates which candidates are still in the race?

[dsc]

1. No

Bennett is still on ballots too

[NurseJackie]

3. Ugh. Kinda sucks.

I guess we'd just consider those to be "protest votes" or the unavoidable "I don't know what's going on around me" vote from the ill-informed and under-informed voters.

Sigh.

[dsc]

14. or early voters who voted before he suspended

This is one reason Harris dropped out when she did, she was facing the deadline to not have her name on CA ballot. She was polling in 3rd or worse in CA at the time and didn't want to be embarrassed.

[dem4decades]

2. I don't think anybody is touching those ballots.

[Gothmog]

4. No

I voted last week in Texas you cannot change ballot now

[NurseJackie]

5. Has he endorsed anyone yet?

[beachbumbob]

6. nope and no need to

[NurseJackie]

7. Why do you say there's no need?

Because he was pulling so few votes to begin with that it wouldn't matter in the end? Or is there some other thing that I hadn't considered?

[sinkingfeeling]

8. No, there were like 18 or so on my early ballot, including Harris.

[MrsCoffee]

9. There were almost 20 candidates on my ballot in California.

I would assume a good portion have already voted since we have vote by mail.

[hlthe2b]

10. My Colorado ballot still included Bennett, Booker, Swalwell and several others long since out...

If they registered and qualified to be on the ballot, they remain unless they officially ask to be excluded in time to meet printing deadlines. I believe only John Delaney did the latter in Colorado.

[zackymilly]

11. I wonder how many people will vote for someone not running anymore. n/t

[hlthe2b]

12. Some pundits have mentioned lots of voters holding back ballots for Super Tuesday

until the last minute because of drop-outs and waiting to see how SC went. That makes some sense, especially if you were supporting one of the lower tier candidates...

[Lochloosa]

13. Exactly what I was doing. Florida here.

[Blue_true]

22. Doesn't in person early voting for us start this week?

I plan to wait until the Friday before March 17 to vote. I have pretty much set my sights on voting for Joe, but I want to see what happens with him and Warren. I have ruled out Bloomberg from the mix, I want to see the person that I vote for win Florida by a big margin over Bernie, so I am not throwing away my vote.

[Lochloosa]

27. Here you go. This is for Florida only.

Early Voting Period
By law, early voting must be held at least for 8 days. The mandatory early voting periods for 2020 are:

Presidential Preference Primary Election: March 7 – 14
Primary Election: August 8 – 15
General Election: October 24 – 31
Each county Supervisor of Elections may offer more days of early voting from one or more of the following days:

Presidential Preference Primary Election: March 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 15
Primary Election: August 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 16
General Election: October 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and November 1
Check with your county Supervisor of Elections for the additional days of early voting that may be offered in your county.

[honest.abe]

16. That is good news for Biden.

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ST might be a good day for Joe after all.

[Blue_true]

23. I think a lot of people didn't want to disgard him, but they

wanted to see him show some fight in debates and at rallies, he did that and came back to the "Fightin Joe Biden" that people want to see. His performance in the SC debate and on voting day there is going to be a massive boost for him, it already has lifted his fundraising.

[doc03]

15. I never thought of that. I voted in Ohio last week and Tom Steyer was on the ballot.

What does happen to their votes after Steyer and maybe a couple others drop out before March 17?
I can't say exactly how many was on the ballot in Ohio but guess at least 8 to 10 so probably half
of them will be eliminated by then and those votes won't count.

[Moderateguy]

17. They still get the vote

Those votes can’t be legally redistributed. They may win some delegates as well

[doc03]

18. All of these also ran candidates and billionaires that are trying to buy the

election really f--- things up for any moderate candidate.

[Moderateguy]

19. That's the way the cookie crumbles...

Maybe your guy shouldn’t have sleep walked his campaign for the last few months

[Blue_true]

24. It's called a democracy Doc. We as voters have the responsibility to sort things out. nt

[MineralMan]

20. No. That's impossible.

[MissMillie]

21. I'm not sure I understand the logic behind the statement

that Sanders benefits from Steyer's name still being on the ballot.

I'm thinking Steyer is more to the left than the Biden/Klobuchar/Mayor Pete constituency. His name on the ballot is more likely to pull votes away from Sanders or Warren than from the moderates, IMO.

At any rate, I believe each state is in charge of their own primary, but I highly doubt that all of the primary states are going to reprint ballots with at 60 hour turn-around.

Earlier last week, I looked at the ballots for my state and there are candidates still listed that dropped out some time ago, including Harris, Booker, Bennet, Castro and Williamson. If they had to reprint the ballots every time someone dropped out, they wouldn't be able to afford to have an election.

[Blue_true]

25. Steyer is more of an informed progressive than a more left ideologue type of

person. I expect that a ton of his support will go to a Biden or Warren rather than to Bernie. I believe we saw that in South Carolina, when at crunchtime, people left him to vote for Biden. I expect to see a similar dynamic in Super Tuesday states relative to Bloomberg, a lot of his support will bleed of to Biden.

[mikelgb]

26. My poor mom in CA already mailed her ballot for Steyer