Coronavirus upends US election cycle as officials scramble to protect voters

By Joan E Greve in Washington DC

Primaries have been delayed and conventions are in question as calls for voting by mail raise concerns of their own

When Spelman College announced this month it was suspending in-person classes and closing residence halls in response to coronavirus, Ashee Groce, a junior, had a question: how would she vote?

Groce, who serves as president of Young Democrats of America at Spelman, had registered herself and a number of fellow students in the Atlanta area. But they had now lost their housing and would have to return home before Georgia’s presidential primary.

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