Burns noted that in states like New York, there is no need to tabulate results for many uncontested primary races.
New York Democratic Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo used emergency powers related to the pandemic to effectively implement no-excuse absentee voting for the primary, and there’s no reason to think that will change in November.
‘Massive number of absentee ballots’
“Come November, you’re going to have every Democrat, every Republican, every independent entitled to vote, and if the governor continues … the order that every voter is entitled to an absentee ballot should they be afraid of contracting the coronavirus, you’re looking at a massive number of absentee ballots to count,” Burns said on a press call, which was organized by Lawyers Democracy Fund.
Priorities USA, a Democratic outside group, has legal challenges to ballot return deadlines in Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania, arguing against potential disenfranchisement.
“The unique challenges we’ve witnessed in recent primaries is an illustration of why we thought it was so important to fight not only to ease or eliminate restrictions on vote-by-mail but to advocate for safe in-person voting. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ve understood that the health crisis would further overwhelm elections officials, and what we’re seeing is a reflection of that,” Aneesa McMillan, the director of strategic communications and voting rights at the group, said in an email.
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