More than 40% of voters used mail-in ballots during the 2020 U.S. presidential election, while polling-place voting was split between early votes and Election Day votes, a report has found. The pandemic led states to expand non-traditional voting methods.
FILE - A voter drops their ballot off during early voting on Oct. 19, 2020, in Athens, Ga. According to a federal report released Monday, Aug. 16, 2021, fewer than one-third of Americans voted in-person on Election Day last November as the coronavirus pandemic led states to greatly expand mail-in balloting and early voting.
The report by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission captures just how much the electorate embraced non-traditional voting methods despite repeated attempts byWhile voting by mail has been on the rise in recent years, the 2020 election marked a major shift in the way people cast ballots, at least temporarily. This was driven largely by the pandemic and voters wanting to avoid crowded polling places.
“The election was a success,” said Michael McDonald, a political science professor at the University of Florida who runs ElectProject.org, which tracks turnout back to the 18th century. “There were some people, myself included, that looked at the primary elections last year and were concerned about what would happen in November. Clearly, both voters and election officials rose to the challenge.”
Several factors contributed to that, McDonald said. Election officials educated votes about the process for mail voting and how to avoid mistakes. They also created ways to alert voters who were in danger of having their ballot rejected and gave them a chance to fix it.Several states also extended deadlines for ballots to arrive by mail as long as they were postmarked by Election Day.
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