Here's a stream of the meeting, by the wayhttps://twitter.com/LWVNYS/status/1254804174002413572 …
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The New York state Democratic presidential primary has been canceled. The Democratic commissioners on @NYSBOE just agreed that Sanders has stopped campaigning, so they're striking him from the ballot because they want to minimize folks voting in the pandemic
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(Also, to be clear: Downballot primaries are still on. Those are not canceled! I just said the presidential primary was canceled in my original tweet, but I see some folks are misunderstanding that)
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Relatedly-ish: Cuomo issued an executive order last week ordering that every voter be sent an absentee ballot request form ahead of the primary. That's different than sending a ballot, but the state is really pushing folks to vote by mail. State BOE is discussing that right now
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@geoffreyvs. Anyone aware of this data existing somewhere? Keep in mind there's congressional and state legislative primaries on that day. I honestly don't know what percentage of the population don't also have a downballot primaryhttps://twitter.com/geoffreyvs/status/1254817747667738624 …Show this thread -
Here's a statement just out from Jeff Weaver, a senior adviser to Sanders. Calls on the DNC to overturn New York's decision, or otherwise punish the state by stripping it of its delegatespic.twitter.com/IueL4pGUgb
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I don't think the DNC would have the ability to directly overturn the state board of elections' decision to effectively cancel the primary. But the DNC's Rules committee could theoretically punish New York with delegates penalties. Here's a statement from a DNC spokepersonpic.twitter.com/a3BkWdR67F
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I would have liked to cast a ballot for Biden but i can live with this.
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