[EL] State-level continuity of governance-

[David Segal]

Hi, everybody-

One thing I'm trying to sound the alarm about:

Many, or perhaps most, state legislatures have no contingencies in place to
allow for things like remote voting by lawmakers.

This could be disastrous, as it will be harder and harder to get quorums to
meet in person. And such meetings will be necessary to pass things like
budgets -- *and changes to voting laws to help make sure that elections
take place at scale and with integrity. *

I'd urge anybody who has contacts with state officials to raise this issue
with them ASAP so they can seek to make changes to their own procedures to
allow for continuity of governance. It's disconcerting, but not shocking,
that there's been almost no thought put into this here in RI.

(This is also a concern for Congress, but I know they are at least thinking
about it now.)

-David
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