The upcoming US Presidential election, more than any other in decades, will require massive voter education and outreach efforts to ensure voter participation to overcome fears of coronavirus and COVID-19.
Science-based recommendations to keep in-person voting safe
COVID-19 has added a great number of challenges to the already difficult task of administering elections. In addition to being good election officials, these unsung heroes now need to be epidemiologists.
How to Design a Healthy Polling Place
While many Americans will choose to vote by mail during this pandemic, we all know that in-person voting is not going to go away. Even states like Oregon that are fully vote by mail offer in-person voting and ballot drop-off
5 Questions with Michael Diamond
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a major challenge to electoral organizations. The planning horizon for electoral activities will go from weeks to months. How, then, should election officials move from a strategy of postponement, which is a valid strategy in the
The Key to Safe In-Person Voting? Communication
By Michael Diamond, co-founder The Infection Prevention Strategy (TIPS)
Vote-by-Mail Deadlines for All 50 States
The pandemic has election officials scrambling to find safe solutions to ensure voter participation, and voters scrambling to ensure they can safely cast a ballot. We believe remote online voting is the real long-term solution to problems like this. Until