\nEvery presidential election involves at least some uncertainty. But usually the uncertainty is the outcome\u2014not the process itself. In 2020, however, with COVID-19 complicating every aspect of our lives, there is great uncertainty around how the basic processes of casting and counting votes will work.
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\nWill polling places be staffed? Will significant expansion of mail-in voting be sustainable? Will the Electoral College be able to complete its work in accordance with constitutional and statutory deadlines? The elections will present a tangle of legal problems, complicating both people’s exercise of their right to vote and their faith in the security and legitimacy of electoral process itself.
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\nTo discuss these questions, Adam White is joined by the Bipartisan Policy Center’s John Fortier, author of Absentee and Early Voting and editor of After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College.