Americans are extremely concerned the coronavirus crisis will disrupt voting in November's presidential election, a new Pew Research poll finds — and almost 3 out of 4 Americans favor universal access to mail voting.
And a new study fromfound no statistically significant partisan effect of increasing access to mail balloting. In fact, some experts, like Stanford's Nate Persily, have noted that in a pandemic situation like the current coronavirus, Republicans could end up being the beneficiaries of expanded mail voting.
"If you think that the most vulnerable populations to the coronavirus are older people — they tend to vote Republican disproportionately. And they might be the ones who might be most likely to vote by mail," Persily told NPR last month."So it's not clear who wins as a result of moving to these types of measures."
Overall, there is bipartisan concern about the impact the pandemic could have in November. Two-thirds of Americans say it is at least somewhat likely that voting will be"significantly disrupted" by the outbreak. Another potential casualty of the virus could be some voters' confidence in the legitimacy of the election.
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