The DNC is scrambling to adapt for a fight over ballot access, in what promises to be the most consequential partisan struggle between now and Election Day
Now national Democratic party leaders are scrambling to head off a similar spectacle in November, in what promises to bebetween now and Election Day. They are seeking billions of federal dollars to prepare for an election in which voters can’t safely go to the polls in person. The party is combing through voting rules, state by state, with an eye toward expanding early voting and vote-by-mail.
“We need a federal and state-by-state strategy, and it starts with calling voter suppression for what it is,” said California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, president of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State. Padilla then referred to a recent Fox News interview in which Trump said Democrats were trying to push voting reforms through Congress that “if you ever agreed to, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.
The clash over ballot access extends beyond which party might have an advantage if laws are changed to make it easier to vote remotely. The unruly scene in Wisconsin, with voters risking their health to cast ballots in person and loads of absentee ballots literally being lost in the mail, underscored the danger of the presidential election being viewed as illegitimate if similar problems occur.
“Their attempt to nationalize our elections through one-size-fits-all federal legislation is irresponsible. History shows that states struggle to implement comprehensive federal election legislation, and their proposal would create more chaos by forcing states into changes that they cannot manage.”
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