![]() One of the most striking aspects of the 2020 election was the unprecedented use of mail-in voting. It’s not that 2020 made voting conclusively better or worse, just different, and as we head into the first post-2020 presidential election, those changes will become all the more apparent. And some recent changes in the way Americans vote that on the surface appear to have been influenced by 2020 may not have been after all. While there’s been a lot of focus, including from yours truly, on changes that negatively impacted the election system and those who work within it - reduced trust in results, threats to election officials, shifting norms of political decorum, new voting restrictions - there were positive changes, too. ![]() The way Americans cast their ballots, who is charged with running elections, what restrictions there are on voting and the very infrastructure used to run elections - all were impacted by this unprecedented cycle. The COVID-19 pandemic and former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election led to an avalanche of changes in how Americans vote. The 2020 election was the latest watershed moment. We saw it in 2000, when the contested presidential results in Florida led to a complete overhaul of America’s election infrastructure. ![]() But occasionally there is an election cycle so disruptive, it changes practically everything. In the ongoing experiment that is democracy, every election creates ripple effects for the ones to follow. ![]()
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