Senator Bernie Sanders speaks as former Vice President Joe Biden reacts
during the ninth Democratic 2020 U.S. Presidential candidates debate at the
Paris Theater in Las Vegas Nevada, U.S., February 19, 2020.
Judge’s ruling
reinstates New
York’s Democratic
presidential
primary for June 23
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
It’s back on. A federal judge ruled Tuesday
night that New York’s Democratic
presidential primary, originally scheduled
for June 23 but canceled last week
by the Board of Elections, will go on as
originally planned.
The ruling handed down by Judge
Analisa Torres indicated that the cancellation
of the primary deprived the candidates
of their opportunity to win pledged
delegates to send to the Democratic National
Convention in Milwaukee later this
year, where the presidential nomination
is fi nalized.
As a result, that deprived each candidates
“pledged delegates of the opportunity
to run for a position where they could infl
uence” the party platform. The canceled
primary would also deprive voters of the
chance to elect convention delegates based
on their personal points of view who could
infl uence the platform’s creation.
Businessman Andrew Yang, who
REUTERS/MIKE BLAKE/FILE PHOTO
dropped out of the 2020 Democratic
Presidential Primary in February following
the New Hampshire Primary, fi led the
lawsuit last month after the state Board
of Elections decided to cancel the June
23 vote.
The New York presidential primary
was initially scheduled for April 28, but
ultimately postponed due to the coronavirus
outbreak. The state Board of Elections
ultimately decided to cancel it days
after Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders
suspended his presidential candidacy —
leaving former Vice President Joe Biden as
the last remaining candidate in the race,
and the party’s presumptive nominee.
Under the judge’s ruling, New York
Democrats will be able to vote in their
party’s presidential primary scheduled for
June 23, which coincides with statewide
legislative and Congressional primary
contests.
According to published reports, the
state Board of Elections is appealing the
decision.
Editorial
Wear a mask, save a life
Should you be ticketed by the NYPD
if you’re caught venturing outside
without wearing a mask?
Under normal circumstances, no. But
the COVID-19 pandemic is anything but
normal.
Last month, Governor Andrew Cuomo
issued an executive order mandating that
anyone going out in public must wear a mask
or a bandana over their nose and mouth. It
was contrary to advice given at the start of
the outbreak in New York back in March,
when public health offi cials discouraged residents
from wearing masks in public because
it wouldn’t make them any safer.
However, as health offi cials have learned
more about coronavirus and its methods of
spreading, the advice has changed.
Why? Because if you cough or sneeze
without guarding yourself, saliva and water
droplets spray out of your nose and mouth
up to six feet away.
If you’re infected with coronavirus and
cough or sneeze, you’ll be sending the
germs fl ying into the air, where others
might inhale it. The saliva and droplets
will land on touchable surfaces, where the
virus may live for many hours or even days.
We know this now through the research
conducted over the past few months, all
over the world, about the easy spread of
COVID-19. Wearing a mask out in public
now doesn’t necessarily protect you from
the virus; it protects others from potentially
contracting it from you.
Which brings us back to the original
question at the start of this editorial.
On Monday, Cuomo said local governments
should issue tickets to those defying the
executive order on mask-wearing. The NYPD
has already done this in widespread reports;
they’ve even gone to protests and harangued
individuals, including the press, to ensure they
were wearing masks and social distancing.
We have speed limits to protect drivers
and pedestrians from serious injury or
death. We have building codes to protect
residents and owners from household disasters.
We have food safety regulations to
protect the food supply. When these rules
are broken, appropriate punitive action is
taken against the offenders.
It should be no different when it comes
to the mask mandate in New York state,
in place for the duration of this pandemic.
We may not like it, but this is being done
to protect each other from contracting a
potentially lethal illness.
Don’t think of wearing a mask as merely
a way to avoid a ticket. Do it to save a life.
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