Trump CANNOT cancel the election on his own, but: "Local election boards could be unable to operate polling sites, and the president could sow doubt in the election's legitimacy or push executive emergency powers to the legal brink to disrupt the vote"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/coronavirus-trump-cancel-postpone-2020-election …
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Another election problem with coronavirus: Lots of polling places are schools, nursing homes, etc. — places that may not be available if pandemic continues. That was a problem in 2012 after Hurricane Sandyhttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/coronavirus-trump-cancel-postpone-2020-election …
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@dominicholden goes all the way back to the Spanish Flu messing with the 1918 midterm election: “'In Idaho, the governor mandated that all voters queue single file' ... In San Francisco, poll workers and voters all had to wear masks."https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/coronavirus-trump-cancel-postpone-2020-election …Show this thread
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People should be requesting absentee ballots now.
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