[EL] my new short paper on election regulation during the pandemic is out

[Ilya Shapiro]

https://www.cato.org/publications/legal-policy-bulletin/election-regulation-during-covid-19-pandemic

Opening paragraph:

The ongoing pandemic has necessitated dramatic changes to nearly every aspect of American life. The ways we work, shop, eat, and socialize have been radically restructured to protect our own health and that of our communities. This November, that radical restructuring will extend to the way we vote. Changes to our voting systems to safeguard public health, such as by allowing mail‐​in voting, are sorely needed, particularly if fears of another COVID-19 wave in the fall come true. At the same time, hastily switching from in‐​person voting to more‐​anonymized systems with which the states lack experience creates the potential for chaos, errors, and decreased electoral legitimacy in the eyes of voters. With little more than two months until the election, states must finalize decisions on what they are doing and communicate those plans to their citizens and the country as a whole.

Ilya Shapiro
Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies
Publisher, Cato Supreme Court Review
Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC  20001
tel. (202) 218-4600
cel. (202) 577-1134
ishapiro at cato.org<mailto:ishapiro at cato.org>
Bio/clips: https://www.cato.org/people/ilya-shapiro
Twitter: www.twitter.com/ishapiro<http://www.twitter.com/ishapiro>
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=1382023

Buy my new book: Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court<https://www.amazon.com/Supreme-Disorder-Judicial-Nominations-Politics/dp/1684510562/>

Cato Supreme Court Review:  http://www.cato.org/supreme-court-review
Register for and watch our 19th Annual Constitution Day Conference, Sept. 17, 2020:
https://www.cato.org/events/19th-annual-constitution-day

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://webshare.law.ucla.edu/Listservs/law-election/attachments/20200826/80d3d5fd/attachment.html>