US Election: How does mail-in voting work?

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It is estimated that around 156 million people will vote in this year's US Presidential Election. https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2020/0917/1165751-us-postal-voting-system/ With a global pandemic raging on, some states have been looking at alternative methods for casting ballots to make voting easier and safer. Rather than have crowds waiting in long lines at polling stations, officials have spent months exploring postal voting with the hope of reducing the spread of coronavirus. But queues of people forming are not the only reason for a focus on voting by mail. Many poll workers in the US are not comfortable working at polling sites due to the virus. More than half of polling workers during the 2016 presidential election were over 61 years of age, according to a US Election Assistance Commission’s Voting survey. With the risk for severe illness from Covid-19 increasing with age, some voting sites closed during primary season this summer due to a lack of staff. Among the causalities were several stations in Bexar county in Texas during the state’s run-off elections in July. This year, universal mail-in voting and absentee ballots have become the two most talked about alternative options to heading, physically, to the polls on 3 November. One is blasted by the president the other is championed by Democrats. The rules surrounding both methods can be quite confusing, primarily because each state governors its own election rules. It is not a one size fits all. What is univer

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