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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Aug 17 09:10:09 2020, in response to Re: How New Zealand delays Fall elections, posted by Easy on Sun Aug 16 21:26:16 2020. Setting election days is an option of the ruling party in a parliamentary system. It isn't in the US, where dates are set by the Constitution. It was these dates' inflexibility that was the basis for the Supreme Court stopping Florida's recount in Bush v. Gore in 2000.The election was moved from Sept 19th to Oct 17th. The expectation is that New Zealand will again be Covid free for several weeks before the election date. This will permit normal electioneering and voting. The initial data suggests that this will be the case. https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-novel-coronavirus-news-and-media-updates is the link for New Zealand's daily press briefings. There have been 58 confirmed cases including the initial 4 cases, associated with this cluster. It has not spread beyond the Aukland area, according to rigorous contact tracing. We should know in a week, whether New Zealand's shutdown, based on 4 new cases, nipped Covid before it could spread. They will still need 2 weeks with no new cases to confirm that they did. |
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