A switch to a mail-only election would require counties to print and mail millions of ballots to voters, with only two months remaining before Election Day, said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, one of the groups pushing back against the idea.
“Jumping to an entire vote-by-mail system in New York state is setting up our elections for failure,” Lerner said.
“We’re hopeful that in a few years we’ll be able to transition to a vote-by-mail model, but right now in the middle of a pandemic New Yorkers do not need to be experimenting with a complete overhaul of our elections against the advice of all experts,” Lerner said.
Common Cause, a disabled rights group and a Chinese-American group in New York said a 100% vote-by-mail system would take away accessible options for people with disabilities, including those who require ballots in large print or braille, or voters who need language assistance.
I like the idea of a vote by mail option but I think polling places should remain an option too fir voters.
On Wednesday afternoon, hundreds of people swarmed the streets surrounding the Capitol for what they're calling "Operation Gridlock," to protest the continued closures across New York, saying they want to get back to work.
The Intercept is reporting that the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, set up to help survivors of rape and sexual assault, refused to fund a #MeToo investigation into allegations against Joe Biden. The charges were brought by Tara Reade, who worked as a staff assistant for then-Senator Biden in 1993, when she was in her mid-twenties. Reade told journalist Katie Halper in an interview published Tuesday that Biden repeatedly touched her without her consent and sexually assaulted her. A warning to listeners and viewers: Her account is graphic.
“I bet Theresa Cooke wouldn’t have liked Donald Trump much.”
This year’s campaign offered the prospect of transformational change, with a Democratic nominee who was more liberal than any in more than a half-century. Instead, the nominee now seems likely to be a moderate white grandfather who first ran for president more than 30 years ago and whose campaign promises a return to normalcy.
True, Bernie Sanders could make a comeback, but it would need to be a big one. Among people who voted on Super Tuesday itself — rather than voting early, before Joe Biden won South Carolina — Biden trounced Sanders. The race would have to change fundamentally for Sanders to win.
If he doesn’t, the obvious questions for progressives is what went wrong and how they can do better in the future. I think there are some clear answers — empirical answers that anybody, regardless of ideology, should be able to see. I’d encourage the next generation of progressive leaders to think about these issues with an open mind.
Bernie Sanders might have been the best hope, but he hardly was a refreshing candidate for President. But nobody serious wanted to run against an incumbent, while flawed, currently oversees a fairly strong economy, providing good times for America. Herbert Hoover and Nixon also had pretty week opponents too.
