Protecting Voters in a Pandemic
With the public being asked to stay home amid the 2020 elections, how should public officials think about facilitating voters' democratic duty without exposing them to COVID-19?
An episode of the Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast podcast, hosted by WNYC Studios, titled "Protecting Voters in a Pandemic" was published on March 18, 2020 and runs 20 minutes.
March 18, 2020 ·20m · Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
Summary
With the public being asked to stay home amid the 2020 elections, how should public officials think about facilitating voters' democratic duty without exposing them to COVID-19?
Episode Description
With election officials weighing the importance of their role in democracy against the massive public health threat posed by COVID-19, should primaries be called off? Should early voting and vote-by-mail systems be expanded? If today's primary elections are postponed, does that set a precedent for potentially putting the general election on hold? This is just one of the places where pandemic meets politics.
On Today's Show:
Vanita Gupta, current president and CEO of the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights coalition, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR), former Acting Assistant Attorney General and head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division in the Obama administration and former Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU, explains how the pandemic is eroding election integrity, and how to fortify voter rights and voter protections during this crisis.
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