The presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders isn't over quite just yet. A federal court judge has ruled that New York must go through with its state-wide presidential primary on June 23, giving voters one last chance to register their support for Sanders.
out of concerns posed by COVID-19, explaining it was now "essentially a beauty contest" not worth the health hazard a statewide vote might pose.
But a federal judge officially overturned that cancellation on Tuesday, ruling that it would infringe on candidates, delegates, and voters’ rights. “Protecting the public from the spread of COVID-19 is an important state interest,” U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres wrote in her ruling.
Mr. Sanders’s campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, said in a statement on Tuesday: “We’re glad Judge Torres has restored basic democracy in New York. People in every state should have the right to express their preference in the 2020 Democratic primary. We have confidence that New York can hold elections in June in a safe manner that preserves New Yorkers’ right to vote.”and said he was “glad that a federal judge agreed that depriving millions of New Yorkers of the right to vote was wrong.
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