“Postponing An Election: Prudent or Bad Precedent?”

Smart thoughts from Michael Thorning of BPC about postponing primaries and other elections during an emergency:

If a state chooses, in accordance with state and federal law, to postpone an election there are two key considerations for maintaining the contest’s legitimacy: 1) it should not be done at the eleventh-hour and 2) there needs to be a defined plan for how the election will proceed later.

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