Mail-in voting

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A person in a deep blue shirt holds forward a circular red, white, and blue sticker with stars and an image of an envelope that reads I voted by mail.

Map of the United States showing mail-in voting rules by state: universal mail-in states in gold, no excuse required in mauve, and excuse required in dark purple.

Portrait of Jefferson Davis wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with short wavy hair and a pointed beard, set against a blue oval background.

Pres. Abraham Lincoln, in February 1865, just after his 1864 reelection and just before his April 1865 assassination

President Calvin Coolidge sits at a small desk outdoors, filling out a ballot to vote by mail, with papers and an inkwell on the table.

Grace Goodhue Coolidge sits at a small desk outdoors, filling out a ballot to vote by mail, with an empty chair beside her and the White House in the background.

Alice Fujinaga and two other women stand at a wooden counter holding papers as a man seated behind the counter writes, inside Tule Lake Relocation Center, 1942.

Two U.S. Army Air Forces personnel at a desk discuss overseas voting at Hickam Field, Oahu in 1944; one sits with papers, the other stands with an AAF Voting Service bag.

President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan sit at a wooden table filling out absentee ballots at their Rancho del Cielo home in California.

Mail-in voting: References & Edit History

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	New article added.	The Editors of ProCon	Jul 20, 2026
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