“Let’s not waste time on something that is not going to happen,” Pelosi said when asked about the possibility of remote voting in a conference call with reporters Monday.

Pelosi said remote voting presents technological and security challenges and, most importantly, questions about whether it is constitutional.

“There is no way we can get into remote voting without serious conversations in the House and changing the rules,” Pelosi said.

Some House and Senate members in both parties have stepped up demands for a change in the rules to allow remote voting in response to the threat of the coronavirus.

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Several lawmakers have been infected by the coronavirus, and dozens are in self-quarantine after they were exposed to it.

Congress is not going to return for business until April 20 or later, unless there is a need for lawmakers to consider quickly another economic relief package.

Lawmakers in both chambers want Congress to consider a change in the rules to allow remote voting.

Two out of 5 people (40%) say remote voting should be “available as an option to all Members of Congress.” Meanwhile, 46% say remote voting should “only [be] under extreme circumstances”, for example, legislators quarantined for health reasons during the coronavirus pandemic.

According to the PSB poll, only 5% of respondents said remote voting in Congress should “not [be] allowed under any circumstances.”

“Older Americans are more reluctant to make remote voting available for all lawmakers. 58 percent of those ages 55-64 as well as 64 percent of those age 65+ say remote voting should only be allowed ‘under extreme circumstances,’” the survey found.

Younger people favor the idea of allowing remote voting, with 49% of those ages 35-54 agreeing remote voting should available to “all” in Congress and 40% agreeing it should only be an option only for those facing “extreme circumstances” such as medical quarantines.

House Rules Committee Chairman and Massachusetts Democrat James McGovern issued a report last week on voting options and determined changing the rules to allow remote voting during the coronavirus outbreak is not realistic.

“Significant security and logistical concerns surround remote voting, and opponents of the legislation could raise constitutional questions surrounding the process,” McGovern wrote in the report. “Allowing remote voting would require major changes to the House rules for this purpose — and much smaller changes have taken years of study and consideration to implement.”