State officials nationwide are scrambling to adjust to stay-at-home and social distancing orders as they plan the 2020 voting calendar, and many experts warn that the pandemic threatens to be highly disruptive to this year's elections.
"I don't think there's any question that voters will be discouraged from getting an absentee ballot, much less showing up in person and voting," he said."But for a statewide election to be suspended by a federal judge would require some real evidence that the election itself has been wholly undermined. And I don't think you're going to have that until Election Day.
"The court is unlikely to see it in their core competency to supervise a state's judgment in a primary election," said Tom Goldstein, a Washington lawyer who argues frequently before the Supreme Court."I would be quite surprised, unless a judge makes some clear legal mistake." "State and local officials need at least $2 billion to prepare, an amount that would cover the equipment, supplies, staffing, training and the other costs of adapting our voting processes to withstand the coronavirus," said Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.
Neither the Constitution nor federal law restricts states' authority to have complete control over the timing and the conduct of primary elections. But the date for the general election, Nov. 3, is set by Congress.
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