Roundtable: Pandemic at the Polls: COVID-19 Politics and the Administration of the 2020 Elections

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

COVID-19 shook the political lives of people, upending election administration in the U.S. How did the pandemic affect elections and what role did system fragmentation play? What did we learn from the pandemic elections and what reforms will stick?

Section

• 60. Public Policy

Chair

• Dari E. Sylvester Tran, University of the Pacific

Participants

• Anita M Manion, University of Missouri-St Louis

• Michael James Ritter, Washington State University

• Kathleen Hale, Auburn University

• David C. Kimball, University of Missouri-St Louis

• Jon Griffiths, University of Pennsylvania