COVID-19 Crisis Makes Reformers All In for Vote-by-Mail

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The political reform movement -- large, growing and increasingly successful -- was poised to wage dozens of new state campaigns in 2020 to outlaw gerrymandering, expand use of ranked-choice voting and temper the influence of big money in politics.

Then came the COVID-19 crisis, upending such plans along with those of virtually every citizen, business, health facility and government entity. Many movement plans relied on passing voter initiatives, but the virus outbreak made petition-gathering impossible.


So a swift change in strategy is underway, elevating one longstanding movement aim — voting by mail (also called “Vote at Home”) — to the top of the agenda.

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