Voting in a Pandemic
Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, joins David and Sarah to discuss how you pull off an election during a pandemic. Rachel makes the case for why states need to start thinking about how coronavirus may impact November now, and expand absentee voting and drive-thru voting.
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Jimmy Carter led a commission looking into this idea awhile ago, and found it subject to fraud. The WSJ has more. https://www.wsj.com/articles/heed-jimmy-carter-on-the-danger-of-mail-in-voting-11586557667
"China is the most highly trusted country by its citizens of any country and has been for a long time. You can say the Chinese people are misguided or what have you, but they trust their government by and large to do the right thing and we don't."
A really interesting statement. I'd love to know the data source.