Fewer People May Vote By Mail Than Expected. That Could Mean Election Day 'Chaos'
NPRFewer People May Vote By Mail Than Expected. But over the past few months, fears about the Postal Service's reliability, as well as President Trump's constant railing against mail voting security, have meant fewer and fewer people planning to use the method to vote — to the point that officials now worry there may be such a crush of people who want to vote on Election Day it could lead to unsafe crowding and excessively long lines. "We're seeing high levels of intent to vote by mail from survey respondents nationwide, but in key states, our modeled projections are even higher," said Rebecca Coffman, Citizen's chief operating officer. Some voters who say they don't plan to vote by mail may not have received a mail ballot yet, for example." Patrick of the Democracy Fund said she wishes those nervous voters would react by sending their ballot in earlier, giving the Postal Service time to work, and not by abandoning the mail altogether.
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