This week's primary in Wisconsin saw long lines of voters waiting in protective gear. One political scientist says Wisconsin is 'just one canary in a coal mine. We have a whole flock of canaries that could also be under severe distress come November.'
. Some states require that voters have an excuse — such as being out of state or ill — while others have no-excuse absentee voting. States with all mail-in elections automatically send ballots out to registered votes, while others require voters to request such a ballot. Some states pay the return postage; others do not. Some states require mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day, while others only require that they be postmarked by then.
"The devil is truly in the details," said Ruffini, adding that"any time the voting system changes, even under nonemergency circumstances, you're going to see each party try to change things in a way that they feel like they have the advantage."The legal fights have already begun. Wisconsin Republicans successfully appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court's ruling that absentee primary ballots could be postmarked after Election Day. Citing the chaos in Wisconsin's primary,claiming that their state's restrictive mail-in voting rules are unconstitutional. In Georgia, voting rights groups are objecting to a requirement that voters have to pay their own postage, likening it to a poll tax.
Both parties are fighting over the rules under which elections will be held in the midst of a pandemic, with an eye toward ensuring their voters have an edge.Kamil Krzaczynski /AFP via Getty Images Both parties are fighting over the rules under which elections will be held in the midst of a pandemic, with an eye toward ensuring their voters have an edge.
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