“There is no indication that pandemic consequences are going to evaporate any time soon. Election experts are already warning there is little time left to prevent chaos in November,” Wyden wrote in a Medium post this week. “But if Congress and states move immediately, it is possible to prevent hundreds of thousands of Americans from differing political philosophies from being disenfranchised by the indifference and incompetence of their elected leaders.”
If “Congress and states don’t act immediately, our country could face an electoral Chernobyl this fall,” Wyden wrote, referring to the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the former Soviet Union.
Wyden pointed to the June 9 primary in Georgia, where voters stood in long lines for hours on a hot day as poll workers confronted equipment failure and absentee ballots that were not delivered in time, and some precincts couldn’t process absentee ballots for days because employees were affected by COVID-19.
Richard Barron, the elections administrator for Fulton County, which covers most of Atlanta, told reporters that despite expanding voting by mail, “we still had to do our full complement of Election Day infrastructure,” according to The New York Times.
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While proponents of voting by mail say such experiences call for more preparation, some, like Blunt, take a different view.
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