Later this year, Americans may face a nightmare scenario from which there will be no escape or recourse - and this has nothing to do with any virus. It has to do with how elections are conducted in the United States. We might be confronting the 2000 Florida recount, all over again. The current coronavirus pandemic is both a health threat and an economic disaster, but the social distancing of America could create an electoral contagion that would pit our best hopes against our worst fears.
