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US Postal Service notice on voting by mail during COVID-19
Title (Dublin Core)
US Postal Service notice on voting by mail during COVID-19
Description (Dublin Core)
On September 15, 2020 I received a post card mailer from the U.S. Postal Service. The message is: "If you plan to vote by mail, plan ahead." The reverse side had my information and a note detailing a list of suggestions to prepare for mailing in a ballot during the 2020 U.S. Election. Personally, I've voted in many elections over the past few decades and voted by mail for a long time before this election as well - I've never received any information like this. You can tell that during the pandemic there was going to be a lot of pressure on voting by mail. Personally, I turned in my ballot at least a month before the actual day in fear that the postal system would be overwhelmed in the days right before the election. This is the first year where voting by mail didn't seem like a convenience, but felt like it was a large part of election history. The pandemic seems to be shifting our daily lives in ways that no one would've expected at the beginning of 2020.
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text story, photograph
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Government Federal
English
Government State
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Government Local
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Politics
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Social Distance
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Rural
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English
Rural Voices
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
11/15/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
02/05/2021
03/15/2021
This item was submitted on November 15, 2020 by Clinton P. Roberts using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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