COVID-19 pandemic amplifying voter disenfranchisement
“As COVID-19 continues to disproportionately impact minorities, some experts warn the pandemic may make it even harder for certain groups to vote in the upcoming election. ‘There’s a lot of ways in which Americans can be shut out of the Democratic process. And what COVID has done is it has taken all of those cracks in the system and made them visible, made those cracks widened, and it’s added some of its own burdens to them,” Myrna Pérez, director of the voting rights and elections program at the Brennan Center for Justice, told ABC News.'”