Withy absentee and mail-in ballots have recently come under the spotlight, experts say there's another voting method that's proven effective at tallying counts while reducing lines on Election Day: early in-person voting.
told ABC News that the early-voting system has previously been instrumental in decreasing lines of voters on Election Day.People wait in line to vote in Georgia's primary election in Atlanta, June 9, 2020."I think any election official would be glad to see them come through earlier, especially during COVID," she told ABC News.
Twenty-seven states open up polling sites in some or all of their districts in the weeks before the election and mark the ballots right there and then.Early voting periods range in length from four days to 45 days before Election Day, with an average length of 19 days, according to the NCSL. "Voters have been clamoring for greater convenience, and election officials have been looking for ways to create administrative efficiencies," Stewart said.Michael McDonald, a professor of political science at the University of Florida, told ABC News that aside from mail-in voting, which he emphasized is a valid and reliable method, in-person early voting is crucial in getting the highest turnout in light of the pandemic.
A worker hands out disinfectant wipes and pens as voters line up to enter a polling site for Wisconsin's primary election in Milwaukee, April 7, 2020."Any relief valves you can put into the system can relieve the pressure that you might see on Election Day," McDonald told ABC News."Even if you see longer lines during in-person early voting, they won't be as long as if we forced people to wait in line on Election Day.
Albert said some states that are new to early voting during a presidential election, such as New York and Virginia, haven't been informing their electorate about this avenue. McDonald said the pandemic has also hurt in more concrete ways, as election officials struggle to find locations that are willing to be poll sites and drop-off locations.
On Aug. 7, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law allowing counties to offer fewer in-person polling places in exchange for opening the sites earlier. The measure also requires counties to have one ballot drop-off location for every 15,000 registered voters, for 28 days before the election. "I'm guessing any election official would focus on this voter's choice message: 'Hey come on and vote early' or 'Hey come on and get your absentee, and we'll process it early,'" she said.
"We do not see a substantive problem with days-and-hours limitations," Appeals Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote in his June decision.Albert contends that early voting has been proven to alleviate problems on Election Day.
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