Nearly 97% of voting-age U.S. citizens now live in a state with some form of early voting, according to a new report.
For all the concern in recent years that U.S. democracy is on the brink, in danger or under threat, a report out Tuesday offers a glimmer of good news for American voters worried that casting a ballot will be difficult in 2024.
The research was inspired by an NPR request for historical data around voting access, and NPR is the first news organization to report the findings.at the margins, the trend in the U.S. since 2000 has been toward making it easier to vote: Nearly 97% of voting-age American citizens now live in states that offer the option to vote before Election Day.
Chris Mann, CEIR's research director, said he thought many people may be surprised at the bigger picture reflecting access, because those other voting policiesThere are some political trends that show up in the data. Of the 14 states that don't offer mail voting to all voters, for instance, 12 have RepublicanBut maybe the more striking trends are geographic. Every single state in the western U.S.
In 2020, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts all made changes to make voting more easily accessible, which have since partially or fully become permanent. Delaware is currently embroiled in ahave slowly started expanding options for voters, generally it is still the most difficult region for voters to cast a ballot.As options nationwide have become more widely available, voters have also responded by taking advantage.
"If there were a problem, if there were a cyber event, if there were a malfunction, if there were bad weather, if there were traffic, if there were was a power outage, you could think of all kinds of circumstances. ... The more you spread voting out over a series of days and over multiple modes, the less likely it's going to impact voters," he said.
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