Opinion: Another reason to worry -- coronavirus could upend our election
Wyden’s bill would give all Americans the right to vote by mail if 25 percent of states declared an emergency related to the coronavirus outbreak. The bill also would require state and local officials to prepare for possible coronavirus disruptions and to offer prepaid envelopes with self-sealing flaps to minimize the risk of contagion from voters’ licking envelopes.
All states allow vote by mail in certain circumstances, and this trend has been advancing here and there. But what Wyden is envisioning is something much broader: a federal mandate that states make this option fully available, if one quarter of them declare an emergency requiring it., if this is going to happen, the states will have to start preparing right now.
Indeed, we’re already seeing examples of this. In Kansas City, Mo., more than 10 percent of poll workers
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