Ohio governor calls for postponing Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary
, had already postponed primaries originally scheduled over the next few weeks. Kentucky took steps Monday to move its May 19 primary to June 23. Lawmakers in Puerto Rico were passing legislation to push its March 29 primary to the end of April.
“We cannot conduct this election tomorrow, this in-person voting, for 13 hours tomorrow,” he said, “and conform to these guidelines.” Lee urged anyone with symptoms of illness to designate someone to pick up a vote-by-mail ballot for them at a polling location on Tuesday. Hasen said some of the poll workers who were called in on short notice to replace those who declined to run election precincts during the health emergency would require training that could slow down the balloting. At the same time, he said, turnout could be relatively low because of voters opting to stay home.
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