Elections américaines et COVID

« The upcoming American elections will take place in the unprecedented period of the Covid19 pandemic, which won’t fail to entail major changes in the voters’ behaviors.

We shall therefore first study how the pandemic could have an influence on the votes by pushing Americans to resort to mass mail-in voting, a process undermined for months now by President Trump.

We will then analyze how the Covid-19 pandemic could be used as both an excuse and justification to manipulate the results of the presidential and ensure Donald Trump’s victory. These presidential elections are unprecedented, because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Voters might change their behaviors and voting process.

The “Mail-in Ballot” is a solution on the table, but it could cause mass voting by mail.

This last may provoke problems on both levels of the elections and the USPS mechanisms.

On the other hand, “Mail-in ballot” reduces risks on the health level.

To preserve their families and their lives, voters will not stand in line, instead they cast their ballot trough mail.

This alternative will also encourage indecisive voters that fear for their lives to vote.

Mail-in ballot will hinder participation rate from dropping.

On a federal level, some states chose to open some polling stations within the framework of the state’s pandemic strategy.

This action has increased turnouts by 8%, so to avoid this high rate, mail-in ballot will encourage as said, people to vote.

This means a drop in the 8% rate. Nevertheless, mail-in ballot is according to some politicians and governmental entities, unreliable.

Firstly, New York’s 12th Congressional District primaries witnessed delays in counting ballots along with losing some ballots.

New York’s example illustrates the inaccurateness and the inexactitude of Mail-in Ballot.

This unclear process, could unveil voters’ information, therefore, not counting their votes.

Mail—in voting on a small scale would fluid and will not cause in a delay, however, in a large country like the United States, it would provoke an accumulation of ballots, thus taking too much time counting.

Lastly, CSG warns the political class on the threats of Mail-in voting, and the its impact on the democratic process. The context of the pandemic, is used by Republicans to manipulate the elections and guarantee a victory to their candidate: Donald Trump. This manipulation is considered as a tackle to the democratic process on all levels.

Donald Trump, during his press conferences for months, claimed without evidence that Mail-in ballot is a process filled with loopholes.

His critics have fueled a skeptical and mistrust movement among Americans regarding this.... »