Here’s what we need to do by November.
On this week’s episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick spoke with Marc Elias, chairman of Perkins Coie’s Political Law Group, who represents the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, about what the coronavirus pandemic means for the 2020 election, specifically in light of the election held last week in Wisconsin, in which the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in to insist that voting must go on.
What happened on the ground for Wisconsin voters? Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said thousands of voters will be disenfranchised inOh, it’s going to be more than thousands. It’s going to be tens of thousands. It could be even higher than that. Milwaukee had five open polling locations in the entire city, and we saw debilitating long lines. Post offices hadn’t even delivered the absentee ballots for people to vote by Election Day.
If that takes hold, that will be devastating. That narrative has taken hold with redistricting. In both cases, you have the U.S. Supreme Court sort of throwing its hands up and saying, “Well, I guess there’s really nothing for us to do here.” In the case of redistricting, they literally threw up their hands and said, “We have no role here.” In the Wisconsin case, they claimed that there was little that they could do but the very little they did was counterproductive.
It’s two different pieces. No. 1: Congress needs to appropriate money to the states so that they can fund the elections. The fact is the Postal Service right now is set to run out of money in June, and it plays a vital role in elections, and states are right now taxed under the pressure of COVID as a health epidemic and that’s taxing their budgets.
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