2020 Election Event Series: The politics of voting and election reform

About the event

The COVID-19 pandemic put new stresses on our system of elections, and a shift in many states toward mail-in balloting. Are mail-in ballots safe? What’s driving the polarization of mail-in balloting and what challenges lie ahead?

Barry Burden is professor of political science and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of Personal Roots of Representation (Princeton University Press).