Voting in a Pandemic
| David French and Sarah Isgur | Apr 9 | 7 | 27 |
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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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I don't see how you can have election integrity without a secret ballot. Spouses, roommates, and relatives will pressure each other, with or without spoken words. This is particularly true now that there is so much anger at “wrong” points of view. I'm stunned that this discussion ignored the need for a secret ballot. You might have little fraud, but how do you have secret ballots by mail? You can outlaw fraud, but you can’t outlaw the inevitable social pressure.
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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
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