Fyodor Dostoevsky once said in regards to prisons that you can tell a lot about a society by its response to epidemics of infectious disease.
How Suffragists Raced to Secure Women’s Right to Vote Ahead of the 1920 Election
President Woodrow Wilson was lukewarm towards suffrage but won re-election. This led suffragists to increase activism in view of the 1920 elections.
Coronavirus cripples voter registration efforts
The coronavirus is having varying impact on elections. One way this is happening is that it is making voter registration more difficult ahead of 2020 polls.
Virus threatens a long-anticipated surge in student voting
The coronavirus pandemic has shuttered campuses from coast to coast threatening the long-anticipated momentum of students in the 2020 elections.
Australia: challenges of holding elections in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic
In Australia, Queensland’s top officials say you are more at risk of contracting the coronavirus in the supermarket aisle than the polling booth.
As Election Security Concerns Rise, Paperless Voting Falls
Threats to voting infrastructure have been core concern since 2020. Amid coronavirus, experts are still more and more in favour of a return to paper ballots
The Coronavirus Could Change How We Vote, In 2020 And Beyond
Coronavirus may significantly modify voting methods and it is possible that these changes will not be restricted to the 2020 elections.
Could the presidential vote be done by mail?
Voting by mail in the November presidential election remains a possibility as long as coronavirus continues making in-person voting virtually impossible.
States begin preparations for mail-in voting in presidential election
Election officials in states with restrictive absentee requirements are looking for ways to allow as many voters as possible to use absentee ballots.
Pro-democracy actors’ powerful message at a time of moral crisis
The Chair of the EED says pro-democracy protests in countries like Algeria, Lebanon are a powerful message to Europe in a time of moral crisis.