No good reason for delaying elections

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No good reason for delaying elections

Fri, 04/03/2020 - 02:16
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The April 7 municipal elections that will not happen should have been allowed to happen. “Public health” is the reason given for delaying elections. The excuse sounds praiseworthy, due to concern about the contagion that threatens to kill – based on information coming out of Washington – at least 100,000 Americans. Allowing people to congregate at a polling place, to ignore the rules of social distancing, to put voters and poll workers at risk, is unthinkable. Everyone can agree on that point; however, that is not the point here, which is that the elections should have been allowed to happen and could have been allowed to happen without endangering anyone. The comment may seem to contradict public health concerns, but people could have practiced social distancing and voted. They could have voted by mail. Why didn’t they? Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and like-minded members of his party have done their best to limit voting in two ways... • They block measures, such as…

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