Election experts warn that states are dangerously under-equipped to handle the likely surge of mail-in voting in the Nov. 3 presidential contest and facilitate in-person voting in a hazardous environment.
Weiser said states will have to overhaul their election infrastructure to adjust to the primary methods by which ballots are cast, or “it’s not going to go well.” She said the $3.6 billion in the HEROES Act is in the ballpark of what's necessary to equip states in time.
released last week. If so, that would be nearly a tenfold increase from 2016. Surveys show Americans registering high interest in the race between Trump and apparent Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Arguing against the bill on the House floor on Friday, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said,"Changing election laws won't speed up developments of treatments or cures."
“We’re going to see more vote-by-mail in this presidential election than we’ve ever seen before,” he said. “The $400 million that’s been appropriated [in the CARES Act that passed in March] can be helpful here but it’s not anywhere near enough.”
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