Not everyone who votes at home can do so in complete privacy, warn , political science professor at the 暗网吃瓜, and , associate professor of political science at the , State University of New York.
In a guest essay for that also appeared in , the , and the , the husband-wife team write that while voting by mail this November would allow tens of millions of people to participate safely in the election despite the pandemic鈥攊t carries its own risk to the integrity of the voting.
While voting by mail is 鈥渨idely available, popular, well-protected against fraud and doesn’t provide either political party with any special advantage,鈥� it doesn’t address outside forces that may influence voters at the moment of decision making, say the coauthors of the forthcoming book (Polity, November 2020).
鈥淭he voter marks the ballot outside the supervision of election monitors鈥攐ften at home,鈥� Orr and Johnson write. 鈥淚t’s possible to do so in secret. But secrecy is no longer guaranteed, and for some it may actually be impossible.鈥�
Johnson鈥檚 current research runs the gamut from pragmatist political thought and democratic theory, to the philosophy of social science and cultural theories of politics. He is the coauthor of (Princeton University Press, 2011). Orr鈥檚 primary research focuses on the politics of organized labor in the US.
