Question for our friends in Washington state.

[Funtatlaguy]

How much is the Coronavirus expected to suppress turnout on Tuesday?
Be safe (and stay healthy) guys in the great northwest.

[barbtries]

1. i know they have mail in voting,

so hopefully not much.

[nolabear]

2. We have mail in voting. So very little.

[FightingIrish]

3. We've already voted, twice

We filled out our mail in ballots for Elizabeth Warren before she dropped out. We hadn’t mailed it as of yesterday. We checked with the county and got directions for changing our vote. We’ll drop our votes for Joe Biden in the mail today.

If we didn’t have vote-by-mail, going to the polls would be a tough decision.

[LisaM]

4. Maybe it will increase it!

Everyone will be home with those giant ballots sitting on the table, ready to fill out and mail in. They started putting postage on them a few election cycles ago which should also help.

[EarnestPutz]

5. My Washington State mail in ballot is right next to me as I write this. It can be....

....mailed in or dropped off at some local drop boxes, usually at libraries. It requires one to claim a party membership, Dem or Republican first, them vote for your choice. The democratic side of the ballot has thirteen candidates (Bennet through Yang) and a spot to vote for "Uncommitted Delegates". The ballot instructions tell you that claiming to be a democrat or republican does't lock in for subsequent elections. Washington has had open primaries since forever, part of our history of the Grange and other Agrarian parties influence in our politics. When both parties raised a ruckus about it a few years ago, this was the compromise that they came up with. Repubs could still "ratfuck" us, but there doesn't seem to be any sort of organized effort.

[Faux pas]

6. We have

mail in ballots here, hopefully most people mailed them in. Thank you for your concern tho

[Funtatlaguy]

7. Didn't know that. Every state may have to go to that

If we are all quarantined.

[customerserviceguy]

8. It's too late

for this year, it would require a legislative fix, and would require lead time that just doesn't exist.

I thought about this, could it tip the balance? Many of Joe Biden's voters are older, and would have greater fear of catching the virus than the younger Sanders supporters, who would seemingly crawl on hands and knees on broken glass to avenge 2016.

[zackymilly]

9. Man with the virus here in NC went to church sick. His church was a polling spot on Super Tuesday.

He also went out to a couple restaurants. We now have a 2nd case from someone who visited Italy.

[Blue_true]

10. That sounds bad, especially that he went to church with it.

When I was a boy, people hung out at church and had conversations for a few minutes after services, lots of talking, handshakes, backslapping, ect. He could have created what can become thousands of vectors, and each of them will create their own vectors.

Thankfully Donald Trump, Mike Pence and Ben Carson are on the point.