Every single Governor and Secretary of State must implement early and mail-in balloting now. The vote goes on in a democracy.
We must always strive for a paper trail, but the pandemic proves a point I’ve been making a long time: We need to digitize our electoral infrastructure. We’ll survive this outbreak in no small measure because of online-enabled social distancing (e-mail, commerce, banking, etc.).
We cannot resign ourselves to an unimaginative and unexpansive view of democratization bc of the 2016 vulnerabilities (criminal hacking, bots, trolls). With innovative safeguards, e-balloting will be the future, one day. If bank accounts are protected online, so can our votes.
