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In early primaries, voters favor polling places over mail

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Ohio, Indiana and West Vir-
Associated Press ginia, which held primaries
ATLANTA (AP) — The great this month; comparisons
vote-by-mail wave ap- were not available for Ne-
pears to be receding just braska, another early pri-
as quickly as it arrived. mary state.
After tens of millions of peo- A step back in mail ballot-
ple in the United States ing was expected given
opted for mail ballots dur- easing concerns about
ing the pandemic election COVID-19, but some elec-
of 2020, voters in early pri- tion officials and voting ex-
mary states are returning in perts had predicted that
droves to in-person voting far more voters would seek
this year. In Georgia, one of out the convenience of
the mostly hotly contested mail voting once they ex-
states, about 85,000 voters perienced it.
had requested mail ballots Helping drive the reversal is
for the May 24 primary, as the rollback of temporary
of Thursday. That is a dra- rules expanding mail ballots
matic decrease from the in 2020, combined with dis-
nearly 1 million who cast trust of the process among
mail ballots in the state's Republicans and concerns
2020 primary at the height about new voting restric- President Joe Biden speaks at the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service on the West Front of
of the coronavirus pan- tions among Democrats. the Capitol in Washington, Sunday, May 15, 2022, honoring the law enforcement officers who lost
demic. their lives in the line of duty in 2021.
The trend was similar in Continued on Page 2 Associated Press