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IREHR’s Executive Director, Devin Burghart, was quoted in HuffPost a few times;

“With a lot of this, the impetus behind it is to create fear around using drop boxes, period,” said Devin Burghart

“The idea that you can hopefully discourage people from using drop boxes for elections because of worries about confrontations is all part of the game,” Burghart added.

“They’re hoping that they can generate enough attention around drop boxes to scare people away from using them, and to deter people from exercising their right to vote,” Burghart said. “I’m just hopeful that people don’t succumb to that kind of fear.”

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Laura Gibbons

Laura Gibbons is an IREHR research associate.