But he again insisted he would not act to postpone tomorrow’s primary election, even as officials at the Chicago Board of Elections warned they’ve been hit by a “tsunami” of resignations from election judges, resignations that potentially could leave some precincts completely unmanned.

In a Springfield press conference, Prtizker noted that as the spread worsens—Illinois reported 12 new cases today, hitting a total of 105—guidance has become more and more conservative as to how many people can safely meet at one time.

Given that, the governor said that, per guidance of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, he is mandating that gatherings of 50 or more people be canceled. Pritzker said he’s not yet going to the 10-person limit President Donald Trump mentioned today, but said the state “is in a very serious situation.”

But, in answer to a question, Pritzker again reiterated that he will not allow tomorrow’s election to be canceled.

“We have to have our elections continue, in my opinion,” Pritzker said. “This is important to our democracy. . . .I feel very good about my decision.”

Meanwhile, however, officials at the Chicago Board of Elections hit a panic button of sorts, making it clear they now are in an “untenable position, as board Chairwoman Marisel Hernandez put it.

The problem no longer is polling places, which generally have been moved to public buildings after private landlords ordered the board to leave their buildings. Instead, the problem is judges, with five normally needed to staff each of the city’s more than 2,000 precincts.

What had been a trickle of resignations from judges, many of them elderly, has become “a torrent, a tsunami of calls today,” Hernandez said.

How many is a torrent? Board spokesman Jim Allen said resignations are coming in so fast the board hasn’t yet totaled them. But asked if it was in the hundreds, he replied with a wry look, “Oh, yeah!”

Both officials declined to indicate whether enough judges remain to staff all precincts. Hernandez, in fact, called for volunteers—even on Election Day itself and “especially if you’re young and healthy.”

Still, the election will continue, one way or another, Allen said. “We’re under orders to conduct the election.”

For what it’s worth, the governor of another big Midwestern state scheduled to vote tomorrow reached the opposite decision on postponing the vote. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said a public vote “cannot conform” to the latest health guidelines, and said he supports a legal suit filed today to delay the state's primary.

Earlier, two other states set to vote later this month, Louisiana and Georgia, postponed their elections.