As the COVID-19 pandemic spirals out of control in the United States, the Nov. 3 election is increasingly in danger. Historically, only around half of eligible voters even vote in America. (In countries like Australia, where voting is mandatory, that number hovers around 90 percent.) Add to that dismal statistic the novel fallout from the virus — with closed polling stations, states in fiscal crisis, a lack of poll workers and increased risk of infection at the polls — not to mention the false White House attacks on the integrity of mail-in voting alternatives and the near-bankruptcy of the U.S. Postal Service, the toxic brew leaves the November election extraordinarily vulnerable to collapse.
