Washington-Sana
Former US Vice President Joe Biden won the Democratic primary for the presidential election in Washington DC, beating candidate Bernie Sanders.
The Associated Press reported today that Biden's victory in Washington gives him victories in five of the six states that were voted on on the tenth of March, where he previously won four other states on Tuesday, Missouri, Mississippi, Michigan and Idaho, while Sanders won, North Dakota.
Four states - Arizona, Ohio, Illinois and Florida - were to hold primaries today.
In this context, Ohio authorities ordered the closure of polling stations and the postponement of elections there due to the emergency imposed against the backdrop of the emergence of the new Corona virus.
"While polls will be closed tomorrow, State Secretary Frank LaRose will seek to find a solution through the courts to expand voting options so that every voter gets an opportunity to do so," later Republican Governor Mike Dewain said in a Tweet on Twitter yesterday.
He added that holding elections in the current circumstances "will force election officials and voters to expose themselves to an unacceptable health risk of contracting the Coronavirus."
The state of Louisiana recently postponed its primary elections mainly from April 4 to June 20, and the state of Georgia, which postponed its primary elections scheduled for March 24, did about two months. The state of Kentucky, adjacent to Ohio, announced yesterday to postpone its primary elections five weeks until 23 From June.
