New Jersey and Delaware voters are casting ballots in primary elections, but because of the COVID-19 outbreak they’re doing it mostly by mail.
Joe Biden won New Jersey’s Democratic presidential primary Tuesday, the state’s first nearly all-mail election. Primary voters also cast ballots mostly by mail in Delaware, Biden’s home state.
Under Democratic Gov. John Carney’s emergency coronavirus declarations, in-person voting locations in Delaware were limited and absentee ballot applications were sent to all registered Democrats and Republicans. Voters were allowed to choose “sick or temporarily or permanently physically disabled” as a reason to be allowed to vote absentee.In New Jersey, voters have been mailing ballots for two weeks.
In most election years, voting by mail is an unremarkable event. But this year is different because Trump has railed against states’ efforts to expand access to voting by mail as an alternative to waiting in lines at polling places during the coronavirus outbreak.Democratic and Republican voters on Tuesday expressed hope that the system would work.
Shivangi Desai, 28, said that she preferred voting by mail and that the process was easy because voting in person means possibly missing the chance to vote if work runs late or you can’t get to the polls for another reason.“It was really easy and I feel like if a lot of states did this, or if a lot of counties did this, it would help getting accurate vote counts,” she said.
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