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To: Sam who wrote (7730)8/20/2020 10:17:57 AM
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What the CDC’s Guidelines for Polling Places Are Missing

Requiring polling booths to be 6 feet apart could dramatically decrease capacity for in-person voting and might not be necessary to protect public health.
By RICHARD H. PILDES, WILLIAM P. HANAGE, ANNABELLE DE ST. MAURICE and MICHAEL LATNER

08/20/2020 04:30 AM EDT

Richard H. Pildes is a professor at New York University School of Law.

William P. Hanage is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Annabelle de St. Maurice is an assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine.

Michael Latner is a professor of political science at California Polytechnic State University and a fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The rise of Covid-19 will lead to unprecedented rates of absentee voting in the 2020 election. But recent primaries already have exposed challenges that might come with this shift: high ballot-rejection rates, requested ballots not being received or returned on time, potentially long delays in determining a winner and, more recently, new concerns about how well the U.S. Postal Service will perform in delivering ballots. For these and other reasons, voting in person will remain far more essential this fall than many commentators currently recognize.

To protect public health at the polls, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in June issued a detailed set of guidelines for in-person voting, which are being widely circulated by the independent Election Assistance Commission and by congressional leaders. The recommendations are certainly welcome. But we believe that one of them is likely excessive and, in fact, would significantly undermine in-person voting—potentially making it more difficult for eligible citizens to cast their votes.

continues at politico.com