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YLR: The Constitutional Implications of the 2020 Elections In The Time of COVID-19

Published: Oct. 21, 2020, 3:17 a.m.

We are voting in an election, as we face a hundred-year storm in the area of public health simultaneous to an atmosphere of distrust, unrest and division. States have employed various procedural combinations of absentee ballot provisions and early voting to try to enable some modicum of social distancing as the election goes forward. The validity of the election itself, as well as public health and political unrest are all hanging on a precipice. Where will all of this lead? What will our