By Joseph Marks with Tonya Riley | The Washington Post
It will take a massive effort of time and resources to increase voting by mail across the nation if the coronavirus pandemic is still jeopardizing in-person voting in November.
And the $400 million appropriated by Congress is nowhere near enough to make it feasible.
That’s the warning from election officials in states that vote almost entirely by mail, who say it took years of careful planning for them to make the transition.
“It’s going to be a herculean effort, but failure is not an option,” Washington state Secretary of State Kim Wyman, whose state is among five that vote that way, told me. By contrast, there are 13 states that don’t currently even offer all their voters the option of casting ballots by mail, according to a tally released yesterday by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.
