President Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis helps make the most obviously practical argument, one of many, against widespread early voting.

One major reason for a national election day is that it allows all Americans to vote based on the exact same information and in the exact same circumstances. Having everyone vote on the same day is not only a collective and communal cultural celebration of representative democracy, a virtue in and of itself, but it also ensures that as few Americans as possible cast their votes without the benefit of late-breaking news.