Wisconsin held the first coronavirus election on Tuesday. It was a disaster, but an oddly helpful one. Helpful, because those snaking lines of mask-clad voters can serve as a warning to other states: Strengthen your mail-based voting systems now, or risk catastrophe. And the delay in reporting the state’s results […] Read more »
Most Americans, unlike Trump, want mail-in ballots for November if coronavirus threatens
Most Americans, including a majority of Republicans, want the government to require mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 presidential election if the coronavirus outbreak still threatens the public this autumn, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. CONT. Chris Kahn, Reuters Read more »
Rulings on Wisconsin Election Raise Questions About Judicial Partisanship
In a pair of extraordinary rulings on Monday, the highest courts in Wisconsin and the nation split along ideological lines to reject Democratic efforts to defer voting in Tuesday’s elections in the state given the coronavirus pandemic. Election law experts said the stark divisions in the rulings did not bode […] Read more »
Coronavirus has ignited a battle over voting by mail. Here’s why it’s so controversial.
One of the biggest fights of this year’s presidential election may be over the election itself and how to hold it during the coronavirus crisis. Vote-by-mail, long mostly a hobbyhorse of good-government advocates, has suddenly been thrust to the center of an escalating partisan war as some say it’s the […] Read more »
Wisconsin’s Election Is A Mess
In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, we dig into some of the challenges that would accompany holding an election amid the coronavirus pandemic. As of the publishing of this podcast, it is unclear whether Wisconsin will be the only state in the country to hold in-person voting during […] Read more »
Voting and Infection Prevention of COVID-19
There is a compelling need to reassess the safety and efficacy of our voting practices in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our government must ensure the right to vote while considering the medical necessity to prevent the spread and ensure the safety of voters and poll workers. This memo […] Read more »