The US presidential election is right around the corner, and
the presidential campaigns are raging at the moment. The recent patent of
voting through the mail is still being reviewed, and the current US President
Donald Trump claims that it will not be safe and will leave the 2020 election
wide open to fraud.
Many states are preparing to expand access to voting by
mail, even though a very few Americans have actually done it. That small number
has been increasing over the course of the previous few elections where people
opted to vote via mail. In the duration between 1996 and 2016, the share of
voters who cast their votes via mail increased up to three times.
Numerically, the share of voters who voted via mail in 1996
was at 7.8 per cent whereas the numbers jumped up to 20.9 per cent in 2016. The
2020 election may see this number further increase due to the coronavirus
pandemic.
Below is the visual representation of the share of mail
voters in the last six presidential election cycles.
Infographic by: statista.com
