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New Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Mail Voting Amid Pandemic

Despite a partisan divide over increasing absentee voting, about half of all Republicans support universal access to a mail ballot, according a new Pew Research poll.
Voting pins and stickers lie next to a ballot box earlier this year during early voting at the King County Elections processing center in Washington.

Americans are extremely concerned that the coronavirus pandemic will disrupt voting in November's presidential election, according to a new poll from Pew Research Center.

They also overwhelmingly support allowing all voters to vote by mail, even as

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