Louisiana fall elections postponed because of Hurricane Ida damage

[brooklynite]

Source: Baton Rouge

Gov. John Bel Edwards ordered the delay of upcoming elections that featured important Constitutional questions statewide and municipal elections in New Orleans.

Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin made the announcement Wednesday afternoon that Edwards had agreed to reschedule the fall 2021 elections in light of the devastation brought on by Hurricane Ida.

The governor’s office didn't confirm the announcement Wednesday. But on Thursday Gov. John Bel Edwards signed the order.

Gov. John Bel Edwards ordered the delay of upcoming elections that featured important Constitutional questions statewide and municipal elections in New Orleans.

Read more: https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_3d349ef8-10d5-11ec-a37f-27340693ba1a.html

[MyOwnPeace]

1. WOW!!!!

I'd bet IQ45 wishes he had used his 'Magic Sharpy' to bring in a hurricane so he could have cancelled the 2020 Presidential elections!

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Am wondering if they should consider

moving their primaries and other ancillary state-wide elections OUTSIDE OF the peak time for hurricane season - like spring (obviously knowing that there is no choice for federal election years, with November being it for the general election as set forth by statute).

[Roy Rolling]

4. Good idea

Of course hurricane season is considered when planning elections. But Fall elections are unavoidable.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Well usually by November, you are coming closer to the end of the season

It's the September/October time that is the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season.

Right now there's "someone" trying to form around the Yucatan peninsula -

Link to tweet

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National Hurricane Center
@NHC_Atlantic
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Sep 10, 2021
8 AM EDT: As we reach the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season today, NHC is monitoring two systems with a high chance of becoming tropical depressions in the next 5 days http://hurricanes.gov
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National Hurricane Center
@NHC_Atlantic
1: A disturbance producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms over Honduras and the western Caribbean Sea will move into the Bay of Campeche and is likely to become a tropical depression Sunday or Monday before moving onshore along the western Gulf of Mexico coast.
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7:43 AM · Sep 10, 2021

Not sure which way it would go if it did go "live" and shifts to the Bay of Campeche, but it's one of those things for anyone near the GOM to have to really deal with considering the recent uptick of more severe storms due to climate change.

[stillcool]

3. the article says the storm affected 42%

of the state’s registered voters. What a mess that's going to be, with changes of address, out of state.