Voting Rights

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Pandemic Elections
Miriam George
Miriam George is a J.D. Candidate in The University of Chicago Law School Class of 2021. She received a B.A. from Boston College in 2018.

She thanks Matthew Reade for his comments on this piece.

The year 2020 will go down in U.S. history as a year of myriad unprecedented events that transformed American life.

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Democratic Legitimacy Under Conditions of Severely Depressed Voter Turnout
James A. Gardner
James Gardner is the Bridget and Thomas Black SUNY Distinguished Professor of Law and Research Professor of Political Science at the University at Buffalo School of Law, State University of New York.

He thanks Rick Pildes for comments on a prior draft.

The 2020 presidential election, possibly one of the most consequential in the nation’s history, now looks increasingly as though it will be held during an unprecedented pandemic.