We should leave it up to local authorities to decide what is the safest thing to do.

Can they open polling places?

Should they not open polling places?

Should they just have an absentee ballot election?

What's the best way to handle it?

It depends on local conditions, and we ought to leave it to local authorities to make that decision.

From a makeshift studio in a tiny closet in Alexandria, Virginia,

I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains.

Election season is always a spectacle.

But it seems like the politics leading up to the elections never seem as sacred as the actual duty of casting a vote.

Since I can remember every election that I paid attention to had hype, rhetoric, attacks, dodges, counterattacks,

and maybe a little policy in the mix.

But one thing is certain.

It all comes down to one day.

Election Day.

It's the day that marks an individual's civic duty better than anything else.

To many, election day might not be as big of a deal as it once was. In fact, election day

could be a thing of the past. Given all the changes surrounding the Chinese virus, there has been a lot of

talk, especially from the left, about our election

process in America and in effort to fundamentally change it by switching to mail-in voting,

not just temporarily, but forever.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is determined to push for mail-in voting across the country

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