Ned Foley and Steve Huefner for Politico:

While states are required by federal law to accept FWABs from military and overseas voters, a version of the FWAB does not yet exist for domestic voters—essentially because the need for it previously has not been apparent. A bill recently proposed by Senators Amy Klobuchar and Ron Wyden includes a provision to extend the FWAB’s potential use to domestic voters, but the bill faces many hurdles to passage. Even if it goes nowhere, state legislatures or Congress could adopt a stand-alone measure calling for local election jurisdictions to accept either the existing FWAB or something similar.

For this idea to be acceptable on both sides of the aisle, it must be carefully circumscribed. First, it should be available only to those voters who do not receive regular ballots that were requested on time, not to any voter who belatedly wants to cast an absentee ballot. Second, to attract broader support, the measure could be limited to just the November 2020 election, even if in principle it might be applicable to future emergencies. Third, states could have flexibility in the exact design of their own emergency ballot—perhaps even giving voters the option to print out a duplicate of the regular ballot that they did not receive, or tailoring the FWAB to require whatever additional information the state deemed necessary to ensure the integrity of the voting process.