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McDonald: Yeah. And we have states primarily out in the West, but there are others like Vermont and D.C., that have run their elections entirely by mail, in that every active registered voter is sent a mail ballot. So in some places it’s essential that you’re voting by mail. In lots of other places, it’s an option for you to request a mail ballot.
Sargent: OK, so let’s start talking about the current situation. By your count, as of now, more than 16 million people have voted early, and around 10 million of those, more than half, are mail ballots. Is that right? And how does that compare to the previous two midterms?
McDonald: Yes, that’s correct. And while we can’t make really good apples-to-apples comparisons everywhere in the country, where I can make those comparisons, it certainly looks like people are voting at higher rates, maybe even higher than, say, the 2018 election, which was the highest turnout rate election for a midterm election since 1914. So we’re looking at really modern historic rates of voting.
