Watching Ballot Access In the Big Three Battlegrounds

First Read: “After what happened in Wisconsin’s election yesterday, it’s become clear that how this country conducts its elections will be the biggest political fight outside of the general election. And in particular, it might come all come down to ballot access in the three battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and the aforementioned Wisconsin.”

“The good news for Democrats, as they’ve howled at the GOP efforts to proceed yesterday with Wisconsin’s election, is that all three states have expanded absentee and mail voting in recent years.”

“Indeed, these three states back in 2016 were mostly Election Day-voting states.”

• “Last October, Pennsylvania’s governor signed into law a measure that allows state voters to cast ballots by mail without needing an excuse.”
• “In Michigan now, all registered voters can request an absentee ballot without providing a reason.”
• “And in Wisconsin, despite all of the problems we saw yesterday, absentee voting was higher than ever before in the state.”

“Now none of these three state is Colorado or Washington state, which conduct their elections almost entirely by mail, but they’re also not the Election Day-only states they used to be, either.”