Online Essay How to Accommodate a Massive Surge in Absentee Voting Richard H. Pildes Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. For comments on this piece, he thanks Ned Foley and Rick Hasen. In this fall’s election, we are almost certainly going to witness a dramatic increase in absentee or mail-in voting Absentee Voting COVID-19 Mail-In Ballot Voting Rights