The Future of Voting And The 2020 Election, with Anthony Fowler

Big Brains

English - September 17, 2020 11:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 358 ratings
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The 2020 presidential election this November is happening amid an unprecedented pandemic. As states scramble to scale up mail-in voting, President Trump claims it will lead to widespread fraud. But what does a leading expert on voting think?

Assoc. Prof. Anthony Fowler is a leading University of Chicago scholar on voting and voter behavior. On this episode, we discuss mail-in and mobile voting, why he thinks it should be illegal not to vote, and how the voting map may look deceiving on Election Night.