This week, J. Christian Adams of the Public Interest Legal Foundation and Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation debate Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law about whether mail-in voting should be expanded for the general election this fall. We hope you find it both entertaining and enlightening.
Josh Hammer, Newsweek opinion editor, is also a syndicated columnist, of counsel at First Liberty Institute and a popular campus speaker.
But moving to all-mail elections would be dangerous. Ironically, it would likely disenfranchise many voters—the opposite outcome of what proponents of such a change desire.
If this was a dry run for November’s election, it was a very bumpy ride. It made clear that states still have a lot of work to do to prepare for a general election in which illness and social distancing protocols will create challenges at polling places—and in which record numbers of voters will likely try to cast absentee and mail ballots. It also should put to rest any disputes over whether states should expand absentee or mail voting during the pandemic. They must do so.
