Stanford Law's Nate Persily on Securing the 2020 Election 1

Stanford Law School and MIT have launched the Stanford-MIT Project on a Healthy Election, a program to address the unprecedented and ongoing threat that the COVID-19 pandemic poses to the 2020 election. The project is bringing  academics and election administration experts together to assess and promote best practices to ensure the 2020 election can proceed with integrity, safety, and equal access.  “The nation’s election administrators know what steps are necessary to ensure a successful election in November,” says Nathaniel Persily, JD ’98, co-director of the new program and the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford, co-director of the Program on Democracy and the Internet at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS), and former senior research director of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. “They simply need the resources and assistance to make the transition to mail balloting and safe polling-place voting.”  For more information, visit https://electionlab.mit.edu/elections-and-covid-19. SL