Sara Stathas for the Washington Post
- We saw this coming for months, and yet the federal government and many states have done little to guarantee every eligible citizen can cast a ballot and be confident it will be counted correctly.
- Now Trump is openly admitting he'll block additional funding for the US Postal Service (USPS) to stop universal mail-in voting.
- It's already an incredibly divisive election, the economy's in shambles, and a pandemic has killed over 160,000 Americans. Our democracy is in a fragile state.
- It's hard to overstate how bad it could get in the event of an election fiasco, that we could've prevented.
- This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
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It's a problem that was identified months ago. It's been the subject of national debate and presidential tweetstorms. We've had time to prepare for it.
And yet, in most cases voting this election cycle has been a disaster, with no signs it's going to sufficiently improve by Election Day.
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