All voters in at least 43 states will be able to vote by mail for the November 2020 election.
All voters in at least 43 states will be able to vote by mail in the elections in November as absentee voting was expanded for safety reasons during the coronavirus pandemic.
Thirty-four states had absentee voting before the pandemic, allowing any voter to vote by mail without requiring an excuse. An additional nine states either agreed to allow concerns about COVID-19 to be a valid reason to request a ballot or dropped the excuse requirement. Nine states and the District of Columbia plan to mail ballots to all registered voters without them needing to request one.
Five of these states – Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington – held mail-voting elections before the pandemic. Four more – California, Nevada, Vermont and New Jersey – have since sent ballots to all registered voters. Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas are the only states where absentee voting will not be available to all voters but limited to those who meet qualifications such as being 65 or older, disabled, a military member or out of town on Election Day.
A seventh state, New York, has not acted to expand mail-in voting for November but is likely to do so. Legislation that would expand the definition of an “illness” to the fear of contracting or spreading COVID-19 awaits the signature of Gov. Andrew Cuomo after passing both chambers in the New York Legislature.
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