2020 Democratic Presidential Primary Elections: Ranked-choice Voting, Vote by Mail, and COVID-19

• In Event: Election Administration in the U.S. II

Brief Overview

In 2018, the DNC passed major reforms to their presidential nominating process. This paper focuses on two of those changes—the use of ranked-choice voting and vote by mail—in five states, and how those state parties adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Authors

• Baodong Liu, University of Utah

• Nadia Mahallati, University of Utah

• Charles M. Turner, University of Utah