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12.16.2021

A Deep Dive into Absentee Ballot Rejection in the 2020 General Election

By Declan Chin

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12.14.2021

How Policy Influenced the Partisan Divide over Voting by Mail

By Joelle Gross

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09.01.2020

Analysis: Vote By Mail in Colorado and Washington

By Pia Deshpande

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08.20.2020

What the Elections Performance Index Tells Us About 2020

By Charles Stewart III

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07.31.2020

What the Elections Performance Index can — and can’t — tell us about Vote-By-Mail

By Pia Deshpande

A black mailbox with its red arm raised up. The mailbox is open, and an absentee ballot is halfway in, as though it's just been slipped into the box.

08.27.2018

Divided States of Mail Ballots

By Christopher Mann

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