It's a question of propriety and priorities. Even voters a hundred miles from the nearest bovine funeral pyre become aware that something is wrong. To insist on conducting an unnecessary election while the fires are raging and unburied cadavers stink, far from asserting the timeless importance of democracy, will show the frivolity with which the present incumbents regard it. A country alerted by television to the sombre mood this calamity deserves to summon up will find itself forced into a procedure which, just now, does not seem overwhelmingly important. It's airily said that electoral procedure has changed.
Nobody needs to move around any more, either to canvass or to vote.
The mobile phone and the postal ballot are the disinfectants of virtual democracy. All true, for those who can arrange it. But all an apologia that comes from the professional's playbook, not from the experience that an election is supposed to be. My guess is that the first mood is going to win this contest. Its exponents are extraordinarily unyielding.