As the coronavirus continues to spread, lawmakers are pushing a bill for absentee voting during emergencies. With the 2020 presidential election at the end of the year, here’s how the pandemic could change voting in the U.S.
: "They had things, levels of voting that if you'd ever agreed to it, you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."Resilient Elections During Quarantines and Natural Disasters Act of 2020
While all states offer some form of absentee voting, the bill would require "states to adopt contingency plans to prevent the disruption of federal elections from the COVID-19 virus."$4 billion House Democrats had requested. States would have to enact no-excuse absentee vote-by-mail, a feature that almost two-thirds of states already have in place.
Under the proposal, states would also have to honor online requests for absentee ballots received five days prior to Election Day, guarantee the counting of absentee ballots postmarked or signed before the close of the polls on Election Day and require states to offer downloadable and printable absentee ballots.
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