An AP-NORC poll finds that Americans’ support for mail-in voting has jumped amid concerns about the safety of polling places during the pandemic. But President Trump’s comments against voting by mail may be resonating with his Republican backers.
, but not before shuttered polling locations left voters in long lines at polling places in Green Bay and Milwaukee, where only five of 183 stations were open.
The partisan differences could have a strong impact across the presidential battleground states. Five of the top seven swing states — Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — have divided government, and skirmishes over voting have already broken out in several. In some, there are signs that Democratic areas are moving faster than GOP ones toIn Wisconsin, Democrats have already started to bolster their mail voting operations for November.
Brynn Alexander, 36, who just moved with her husband to military housing in Alabama, is one of those who worries about security.
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