Earlier this week, we at LGBTQ Nation asked you how you’re planning to vote this November, and the results of our reader poll are in.
The top two responses were in-person voting (41%) and mail-in voting (38%). Both of these answers were far more popular than the alternative, which was using a ballot drop box (14%). While 5% of readers responded that they are not able to vote in this coming election, fewer than 2% said that they were making the choice to abstain.
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The results are not surprising. LGBTQ Nation readers are civic-minded, so not many would choose not to vote in the election. Many states also ban or restrict ballot dropboxes, especially in the South.
Meanwhile, mail-in voting has become more widely available since the 1980s. In 2022, 32% of voters used a mail-in ballot, according to MIT’s Election Data + Science Lab.
While mail-in voting briefly surpassed in-person voting on Election Day in 2020 due to the lockdowns and people choosing to limit interactions with others, when early in-person voting is counted, going in person to the polls has been the most popular way to vote in every election and will likely be the most popular means of voting in this election for Americans in general.
And, with that, we would like to remind readers to make sure that they’re registered to vote. We’ll have another reader poll next week at the Equality for All Election News Center.
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