Nearly 70 percent of the more than 154.6 million Americans who voted in the 2020 election did so by “non-traditional means” with 43 percent voting by mail and 26 percent casting ballots in-person prior to Election Day in the 47 states that offer early voting, according to the United State Census Bureau.
About 67 percent of Americans who were eligible to vote cast ballots in the 2020 election, a record overall turnout that saw a 73-percent boost in “nontraditional voting methods” from 2016, in most states discouraging in-person Election Day voting during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But even during the post-pandemic 2022 midterms, nearly 57 percent of the 112 million Americans who voted—a 46-percent turnout—did so by mail (36 percent) or during early voting (21 percent), according to a July 2023 Pew Research Center analysis….