One in five Americans voted by mail in 2016. Experts predict as many as half of all registered voters could send in their ballots in 2020.
McReynolds said states and counties that are still deciding whether and how to expand their mail voting this fall need to decide now or risk not being able to give voters the option.
Ellington says his company can print up to 20 million ballots, but more than 9 million are already spoken for."We can't add more equipment. We can't add more people. We can't add more space," he said. "I'm not concerned about running out of ballots or not allowing people to vote," Ellington said, acknowledging that voters will still be able to cast ballots in-person nationwide."It's just going to create more stress on a system if people delay and then states are going to decide to go vote by mail."
Michigan’s local elections last month shattered records for voter participation with 99% of all votes coming through the post office. In Missouri and New Hampshire, Republican governors recently approved changes to allow anyone concerned about the coronavirus to vote absentee this fall. The expansion of mail-in voting was not without problems. Some Georgia voters who never received a mail ballot were forced to head to the polls to cast a ballot in-person, where they faced long lines, delayed poll openings and issues with voting machines.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging all states to expand mail-in voting as much as possible to"minimize direct contact with other people and reduce crowd size.
And, while President Donald Trump has claimed mail-in balloting"doesn't work out well for Republicans," researchers at Stanford University studying 20 years of election data found"no apparent effect" of vote-by-mail on election outcomes despite partisan concerns.Vote by mail ballots are prepared by Runbeck Election Services.
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