DENVER – More than two-thirds of all U.S. citizens of the voting age population participated in the 2020 presidential election, according to a new U.S.
Census Bureau report, and 69% of those cast ballots by mail or early in-person voting — methods that Republicans in some states are curtailing.
That's an explosion in the use of mail and early voting compared to four years earlier, when just 40% of voters cast ballots that way.
The change was in part a result of the pandemic, which prompted health officials to urge voters to stay away from crowded in-person polling places.