Federal officials have been warning that in recent months, some social media users have been encouraging sabotage of ballot drop boxes. "It's a direct attack on democracy," said one local official.
Erie County, Pa., is one of just a handful of places that boomeranged from supporting Obama in 2008 and 2012, to Trump in 2016, to Biden in 2020. It's worth watching in 2024.
After the 2020 election saw record levels of mail-in voting, election officials saw less mail ballots than at the height of the pandemic but the method is still much more widely used than before.
After years of criticizing mail voting and so-called ballot harvesting as ripe for fraud, Republicans at the top of the party want to change course. They're poised to launch aggressive get-out-the-vote campaigns for 2024 that employ just those strategies.
Tens of millions of people in the United States opted for mail ballots during the pandemic election of 2020. This year, voters in the early primary states are returning in droves to in-person voting. In Georgia, early in-person voting is shattering records.
The president has backed off his attacks on the Postal Service but continues to question the integrity of mail ballots, without providing any evidence.
Americans trust the U.S. Postal Service for important mail like credit cards, passports, and even stimulus checks — but concerns over mail-in ballots have been raised as the agency suffers from financial struggles and mail delays. On Second Thought discusses how new developments with the U.S. Postal Service may play into the 2020 election and beyond.
Democrats lead Republicans in mail ballot requests in the state by 600,000, leading to pressure on the president to relent in his attack on mail voting.
Voting by mail is easier now across the U.S. Officials in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, a swing region in a critical state, are making changes to manage the time-consuming process of counting ballots.
