Mail voting is still pretty popular, even without the pressure of the pandemic
After the 2020 election saw record levels of mail-in voting, election officials saw less mail ballots than at the height of the pandemic but the method is still much more widely used than before.
The COVID-19 pandemic, so far, has had some lasting effects on how people cast ballots in the U.S.
According to from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, mail voting rates in the U.S. "remained higher than pre-pandemic levels" during last year's midterm elections, when more than 35 million mail ballots
