Voters designate ballots at an Upper East City polling station in New York City on Nov. 8th, 2016.
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New York’s presidential noteworthy election will be pushed back from April 28 to June 23 as the coronavirus continues to infect more people in the body politic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday.
During a press briefing, Cuomo said he would issue an executive with the aim to delay the vote, aligning it with the congressional and legislative primaries in New York.
“I don’t think it’s wise to be bringing a lot of people to one tracking down to vote,” Cuomo said during the briefing.
New York joins 10 other states and Puerto Rico in opting to tarry their presidential primary vote in order to control the coronavirus outbreak. Both Democratic contenders Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders deliver decided to cancel in-person events because of pandemic.
In New York, considered the epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S., cases of COVID-19 skipped to more than 52,000 people and deaths rose to at least 728, up by more than 200 in a day.
Cuomo also voted individuals filing a New York tax return now have until July 15 to get their paperwork in, bringing the state’s tax due swain in line with the newly extended deadline for federal tax returns.
“It’s bad news for the state of New York, there’s no revenue on in until July 15,” Cuomo said on Saturday.
The coronavirus has infected at least 115,547 people in the U.S. and has killed 1,841, harmonizing to data from Johns Hopkins University.