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Mail-in voting's potential problems only begin at the post office – an underfunded, underprepared decentralized system could be trouble

  • Written by Jennifer Selin, Kinder Institute Assistant Professor of Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri-Columbia
imageA massive shift to mail-in voting will be hard for many of the state and local officials who run elections.Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

While much of the recent attention on mail-in voting has focused on the U.S. Postal Service or on the likelihood of voter fraud, there is a lesser-known, looming problem for the November elections: The burden of...

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