A pandemic won’t stop America. 

  2020 is an election year. Before the Coronavirus outbreak, it was the star of the news.

So what’s happening now?

  Many states, including New Jersey, have postponed their primary elections or switched to voting by mail with an extended deadline. New York has completely cancelled their presidential primary. The presidential primaries are currently seen as irrelevant since Bernie Sanders dropped out of the Democratic race, making Joe Biden the seeming nominee.

Despite this, Tom Perez, the Democratic National Committee chairman, still urges states to not cancel their primaries and expand their use of voting by mail. 

  Although it seems far, the November election is already in question. Talks of voting by mail have been circulating, but nothing has been decided on yet. No matter what, the virus will definitely have an impact.

  Even after everything opens back up, the fear of crowding in large groups will not disappear. It’s suspected that there will be a lower voter turnout this year that could possibly throw the election. There are some states, like Texas, that have already said they don’t believe Corona is a valid reason to change the ballot. Turnout will drop if people are forced to choose between voting in person and possibly coming into contact with the virus and not voting. 

  The other option is changing to a mail-in vote. This will delay the results because it is impossible to count them all by Election Day. 

  It’s too far out to tell the specifics of what will happen on November 3, but it can be confirmed that the Coronavirus has impacted it already.