‘The Nightmare Scenario’: How coronavirus could make the 2020 vote a disaster

‘The Nightmare Scenario’: How coronavirus could make the 2020 vote a disaster

Late last week, I interviewed  University of California, Irvine professor Rick Hasen, one of the nation’s top experts in election law and the author of “Election Meltdown” and walked through what the coronavirus pandemic will actually mean for the 2020 election — not in terms of its impact on the Trump or Biden campaigns, but on American democracy itself. What follows is a transcript of that conversation ….