Bill Barr is right about one thing.
Win McNamee/Getty ImagesOn Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr attacked the way that tens of millions of Americans vote today. Complaining about extended early voting, including vote by mail, Barr carped that “now we have an election season” instead of an Election Day. “The whole idea of an election is to have a single expression of will by everybody at the same time based on the same information,” the attorney general groused.
Barr is correct that the United States now has an election season. He is wrong about everything else. His definition of an election does not derive from “the constitutional scheme and the basic principles,” as he claimed, but from his own imagination. His vision of a single Election Day upon which all Americans vote is not derived from the Constitution, which prescribes no such thing. Nor can it be attributed to historical practices at the Founding.
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