States that had previously handled a trickle of mail voting suddenly faced a deluge. In several spring primaries, Democrats had embraced mail ballots in far larger numbers than Republicans. He warned that his opponents would try to manipulate mail ballots. Early and mail voting exploded across the nation — in battlegrounds and in states where the outcome was never in doubt. An election judge had to call the county elections office to cancel her mail ballot before she could vote in person, she said.

Source: Washington Post November 01, 2020 23:01 UTC