2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “Thirty-four states and Washington, D.C., offered absentee voting by mail to all registered voters without an excuse before the pandemic. To keep people from packing polls during a health crisis, some states sent mail-ballot applications to all voters. California will send mail ballots to all voters for the election in November, joining Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Utah and Hawaii, which conduct their elections entirely by mail.
In several of the 16 states where voters must provide an excuse to receive an absentee ballot – being over 65 years old, out of town during Election Day or in the military, for example – they can cite coronavirus as a reason. Most states made the change only for the upcoming primary election but could extend that to November.
Only five states, each in the South, have not taken legislative action to expand voting by mail, but legal challenges could force them to make changes… Biden said Trump is attempting to ‘undermine’ the election by making it more difficult for people to vote through his opposition to vote-by-mail.”
-Joey Garrison, “Biden and Trump each warn that other side may ‘steal’ the election as fight over mail voting rages,” usatoday.com, June 12, 2020