Due in no small part due to the expected influx of mail-in voting, election administrators are warning that it is possible — if not probable — that America won’t know the winner of the presidency by the time it goes to bed on the night of Nov. 3
to stand in hours-long lines to exercise their right to vote. A constant across many of these states? Voters who requested an absentee ballot but ultimately never received it. They are then forced to choose between not voting at all or waiting in line for, in worse-case scenarios, up to six hours. This happened on Tuesday in Georgia, but it is by no means unique to Georgia.
found that Black and Latino voters “were more likely than white voters to report particularly long wait times, and they waited longer generally” in the 2018 midterms. On average, Black and Latino voters waited about 45 percent longer in line than white voters in the midterms — a problem that will likely be exacerbated by the havoc coronavirus has wreaked on American elections.
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