Ursula Gruenewald, a resident of Acworth, Ga., cast her ballot at an early voting site on Friday, May 6, 2022. Gruenewald, who usually votes by mail, said she had a difficult time navigating recent changes to the mail voting process in Georgia and decided to vote at the early voting site to avoid the possibility of long lines on Election Day.(AP Photo/Christina A. Cassidy) The Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — The great vote-by-mail wave appears to be receding just as quickly as it arrived.
After tens of millions of people in the United States opted for mail ballots during the pandemic election of 2020, voters in early primary states are returning in droves to in-person voting this year.
In Georgia, one of the mostly hotly contested states, about 85,000 voters had requested mail ballots for the May 24 primary, as of Thursday. That is a dramatic decrease from the nearly 1 million who cast mail ballots in the state’s 2020 primary at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
The trend was similar in Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia, which held primaries this month; comparisons were not available for Nebraska, another early primary state.
A step back in mail balloting was expected given easing concerns about COVID-19, but some election officials and voting experts had predicted that far more voters would seek out the convenience of mail voting once they experienced it.
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