That’s because President Trump and his allies know that their best chance of winning is to suppress turnout, Sue Halpern writes in The New Yorker. That such efforts to undermine a secure and reliable voting method should occur amid a pandemic make them especially pernicious. Two bills providing for a universal vote-by-mail option have been introduced in Congress recently, but neither has gotten anywhere in the Republican-controlled Senate. With time running out, it’s up to the states to ensure Americans have a safe way to vote, David Ignatius writes in The Washington Post. But that is necessarily a patchwork solution, and, as the Georgia primary showed, an underfunded and opaque one at that.

Source: New York Times June 11, 2020 23:15 UTC