Thirty-four states and Washington, D.C., allowed absentee voting by mail without an excuse even before the pandemic. That includes five states, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Utah and Hawaii that conduct their elections entirely by mail.
Michigan presses ahead despite Trump's threat
"That is a big difference in the nuance of how Democrats are talking about this and Republicans," McDaniel said. Access to the ballot, she said, is “not a partisan thing,” and she hopes people will recognize that her “Republican and Democrat colleagues in other states are doing the same” to educate voters about their rights. Benson said even before Trump’s comments, her office had seen rising inquiries about absentee ballots as they worked to implement a 2018 law legalizing no-excuse absentee voting.
In states that have already held presidential primaries amid the pandemic, voters rushed to send in absentee ballots rather than stand in line at polling places. "Because of the coronavirus pandemic, we wanted people to know that they had an option," Evnen said. He too declined to respond to Trump's remarks but said Nebraska would not likely send absentee applications again before the November election."I'm very confident that Nebraska voters know about it now and I don't think we're going to need to repeat that in a general election.
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