To strengthen our democracy, it’s time for a legal conversation on the control and conduct of war in order to grapple with the changing nature of warfare.

The coronavirus will not be over in the fall. If we do nothing, we risk the kind of debacle we saw in Wisconsin in April: low turnout, closed polling stations, endless voting lines, last-minute litigation and, at the end of the day, an election discredited and delegitimized.

Just as U.S. medical and economic systems must rise to their respective tests, so must the political system.

The election must be held. And people who want to vote must be able to do so without fear of infection and without worsening the pandemic.