Voting booths sit empty midway through the day of the Democratic presidential primary elections at the Sleepy Hollow Elementary School polling location on Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - As the coronavirus pandemic knocks primary election after primary election off schedule, Democrats argue the outbreak shows the country needs to move toward one of their longtime goals — widespread voting by mail — to protect the November election.
But Democrats' hopes for using the crisis to expand voting by mail face firm Republican opposition, as well as significant logistical challenges.