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Politics
Miles Parks

2020 changed how America votes. The question now is whether those changes stick

Voters deposit their mail ballots at Desert Vista Community Center in Las Vegas on Oct. 22. Mail voting, which has increased for years, surged in 2020 during the early months of the pandemic. Nevada has since codified an expansion of mail voting. (David Becker/Getty Images)

The story of how 2020 changed voting in America has been well told by now: Whether it was 24-hour early voting sites or ramping up mail voting options, virtually every election jurisdiction in the country did something to expand access and make voting easier and safer during the early months of the pandemic.

And voters responded. Roughly 70% of the more than 150 million votes cast in that election were cast before Election Day.

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