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The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. The GE can't be postponed by fiat; the Constitution says it has to happen every 4 years

Reply to keepthemhonestO (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2020, 01:23 PM

Mar 2020

and only Congress can change the date. And that's all Congress can do, since otherwise the individual states control their elections. Europe has mostly parliamentary governments, which can relatively easily postpone elections. That's not true here.

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No way in hell are we postponing the general election [View all] keepthemhonestO Mar 2020 OP

The GE can't be postponed by fiat; the Constitution says it has to happen every 4 years The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1

Ok that's reassuring keepthemhonestO Mar 2020 #5

Some states w Republican Govs will evertonfc Mar 2020 #2

Right they keepthemhonestO Mar 2020 #6

Mail in bdamomma Mar 2020 #3

Exactly keepthemhonestO Mar 2020 #7

I feel the same way, but... Jeebo Mar 2020 #4

For sure keepthemhonestO Mar 2020 #8