Articles by Sara Wilson Medill School

Editor's Note: This article originally published on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. ‍ Postmaster General Louis DeJoy promised on Friday that the Postal Service would fulfill its "sacred duty" to deliver election mail this fall and said he was "extremely highly confident" that even mail-in ballots sent close to Election Day would be delivered on time. In the first of his two appearances before Congress this month, the embattled postmaster sought...

Editor's note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Absentee voting refers to when a voter requests a ballot for an election and is then sent one in the mail. Vote-by-mail, which is what Sen. Tom Cotton is most likely referring to as "mass mail-in voting," is a system of sending every registered voter (an important distinction from "everyone") a ballot without a request. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Colorado, Hawa...