Talking Elections Episode 3: Voter Education

"Talking Elections: COVID-19" features election administrators and researchers from around the US in conversation on a particular topic. Throughout all these discussions, we focus on the issue of running safe and fair elections during the COVID-19 pandemic.Today's topic is voter education.

We're joined by Veronica Degraffenreid of the Pennsylvania Department of State, along with Mara Suttman of Connecticut College and Lia Merivaki of Mississippi State, who discuss why voter education matters and how to do it right when you're running an election during a pandemic.

Our theme music is "Lockdown Song," by Stefan Kartenberg.

[leslieericmurphy]

At 13m45s, when you talk about ballot "tracking", you say you follow up with the voter if the ballot has not been returned. Can the process just end there if the voter never responds or never returns the ballot? I am wondering what the extent of the followup is and how you handle a ballot that might never be filled out and returned? Thanks very much.