The wave across the country of voting by mail seems to be receding. After tens of millions of people in the United States opted for mail ballots during the election of 2020, voters in early primary states are returning in droves to in-person voting this year.
In Georgia 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.
While a slowdown in mail-in voting was expected as concerns about COVID-19 abated, some experts predicted that more voters would continue to vote by mail, because of its convenience.
