I would defer to public health officials for their best advice about whether elections should be conducted physically on a campus; it depends on how that can all be set up. In my statement, I presented the student experience as an example, as a case study, because there are lots of people right now who would normally be living in one location during this time, but are now living somewhere else because of the pandemic, which creates some confusion around where to vote, how to vote and how to indicate your official address. That's something that would need to be ironed out.
On the student side, I also want to mention, again, Apathy is Boring and the Democratic Engagement Exchange, because they recently conducted a student vote campaign that partnered with 700 different community organizations. That gives us a blueprint to make sure that certain populations, like students, can have the messaging and receive the information they need to vote and understand how to do it and where to go.
I think because campuses don't have as much activity and busyness right now, they might be able to be used for other people to come to vote in those spaces as well. The pandemic is giving us an opportunity to think in really creative ways and to try some new things. I know that in the lead-up to September with back to school, there was some exploration of classes being held in community centres that were otherwise closed, or using malls that could not be open in the normal kind of way. I would just note that campuses are huge; there's a lot of social-distancing opportunity on them, so maybe that's significant for this moment and that environment can be harnessed to increase voter engagement for the student community, but also potentially beyond as well.