We’re not going to be able to hold the presidential election in November 2020.

Not in a way that looks like previous presidential elections.

The coronavirus is going to make in-person voting impossible or unsafe throughout much of the country.

Happily, there’s an easy solution: voting by mail.

Join Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Rev. William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign, legendary labor organizer Dolores Huerta and others for an online rally tonight — on Facebook Live — in favor of voting by mail and democracy reforms.

Get information on the Vote for Our Lives virtual rally now.

This inspiring and educational event is at 7:00 p.m. (EDT) TONIGHT.

If we lived in a rational world, there would be no need to rally to ensure every American can easily vote by mail.

In light of the pandemic, every state would adopt systems to make mail voting easy, and the federal government would give them the resources they need.

But the issue has become politicized.

“MAIL-IN VOTING WILL LEAD TO MASSIVE FRAUD AND ABUSE,” Trump has tweeted.

That Trump himself votes by mail hasn’t made an impact.

There is no evidence that voting by mail leads to fraud.

Nor does voting-by-mail advantage either party, as shown by the experience of the states that have gone to all-mail voting or rely heavily on voting-by-mail, and as Republican officials in those states proclaim loudly.

If we don’t make voting by mail easy, with the federal government funding the states to get appropriate systems in place, we’re going to have a chaos election in November.

Join our virtual rally tonight on Facebook Live!

In unity.

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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