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RandySF

(58,811 posts)
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 01:07 AM Mar 2020

Hawaii Democrats scrap in-person voting plan for primary

HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Democratic party has scrapped plans for in-person voting during its party-run presidential primary on April 4 in favor of mailed ballots over concerns of the coronavirus, officials said Friday.

The party had always expected most members would vote by mail, and has already put two rounds of ballots in the mail. But the party had also planned to allow people to cast ballots at 21 voting sites on Election Day if they wanted. Voters would have been allowed to join the party that day.

Instead, the party will now send a third round of mailed ballots to everyone who newly registers to vote or joins the party by April 4.

The party won’t have the results until late May because it will need to mail the new round of ballots and wait to receive them after they have been filled out, said Kate Stanely, the interim chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Hawaii.




https://apnews.com/d1a6e7d943d61daba5564388912220b5

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Hawaii Democrats scrap in-person voting plan for primary (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2020 OP
Vote by mail only no poll voting, coast to coast. magicarpet Mar 2020 #1
Mahalo for this info, RSF! I always vote in person Cha Mar 2020 #2
And you gotta know the GOP asshats are working on how to cheat and make this work in their favor. C Moon Mar 2020 #3
 

magicarpet

(14,150 posts)
1. Vote by mail only no poll voting, coast to coast.
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 01:18 AM
Mar 2020

Vote by mail, every state, coast to coast.

We need social distancing,
We need to up the voter participation,
We need to make it easier to vote,
We need a work around for long lines at polls, often contrived,
We need a work around for too few voting machines at some locations often contrived,
We need to stop the changing of polling places at the last minute,
We need to trash the use of electronic voting machines who's votes tabulated can not be audited, but easily manipulated.

We need to think smarter and use the techniques used by republicans. Disasters mean immediate corrective reforms are required. When disaster strikes we must be at the ready with plans to bring drastic change that reshuffled the deck in our favor.

WE MUST PUSH FOR MAIL IN VOTING NATION WIDE, for the up coming November 2020 election and every local, state, and national election thereafter.

ALL OF THE VOTING PROBLEMS LISTED ABOVE magically disappear with mail in only voting.

The emphasis should be we need to social distance, we do not know when the pandemic will be over, many election poll workers are elderly, we can not take the chance these elderly poll workers will get COVID-19 or the general voting population.

WE MUST SET UP AND VOTE BY MAIL 11/2020.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

Cha

(297,218 posts)
2. Mahalo for this info, RSF! I always vote in person
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 01:25 AM
Mar 2020

and have been wondering what was going to happen for April 4th. I have to call them an make sure I get my Ballot to Mail in.. Do Not want to miss Voting for Joe Biden!

StaySafe!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

C Moon

(12,213 posts)
3. And you gotta know the GOP asshats are working on how to cheat and make this work in their favor.
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 02:17 AM
Mar 2020

The GOP is a virus.
They need to be eradicated.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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