How will COVID-19 impact the November elections?

In this week’s episode, Julia, Lee, and James ask what impact COVID-19 will have on the November elections. How can Americans vote safely during a pandemic? What are the long-term consequences of changing how they cast their ballots? Will Election Day become Election Month? Who wins and who loses when we reform how the United States conducts its elections? And what really happened in Wisconsin? These are some of the questions Julia, Lee, and James ask in this week’s episode of Politics In Question.

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Show Notes

Julia references an Electoral Studies article by R. Michael Alvarez, Thad E. Hall, and Betsy Sinclair (“Whose absentee votes are returned and counted: The variety and use of absentee ballots in California”) when discussing the disproportionate way Americans’ votes are counted.

Lee references the work of MIT’s Charles Stewart on public opinion in elections and Rick Hansen’s new book, Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy, when discussing the extent to which both Democrats and Republicans feel that election outcomes are illegitimate.