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How to Hold a Fair Election in November
The logistics can be managed. It’s the threat-to-democracy part that’s challenging.
This should be the easy part, believe it or not.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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There’s no question about it: Holding successful elections under current conditions is going to be difficult.
The good news is that a group of experts put together by election-law maven Rick Hasen, the Ad Hoc Committee for 2020 Election Fairness and Legitimacy, has thought through many of the major issues and published solid recommendations for getting it right this November. Now we’ll see whether politicians and the media will follow through.