There were no drop boxes at all, she noted, until state officials made an emergency exception during the pandemic. “The Legislature could say that no drop boxes are necessary at all,” she said. In those elections, “if there are barriers placed in the way of voters, they’re not going to turn out,” he said. Both were first tried during the pandemic and, importantly, were popular with voters and county election officials. “Some states are adopting a blunderbuss approach to regulating voting that is only distantly related to fraud concerns.

Source: New York Times February 27, 2021 16:52 UTC