Voter guide booklet
Object Details
- Description
- This Washington, DC Board of Elections voter guide booklet for November 3, 2020 general election was distributed during the Covid-19 pandemic. The front cover includes information that "Beginning the first week of October, every registered voter will be mailed a ballot for the General Election."
- The two DC Board of Elections Voter Guides in this accession (see also 2023.2005.10) illustrate this shift: the primary election guide, published in May, includes a mail-in ballot application; by the time of the general election in November, no such application was included since all registered voters automatically received mail ballots.
- Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 primary and general election in the United States were the first to be conducted by mail across the entire country. Mailings by boards of election, the postal service, and non-profit organizations sought to educate voters, many of whom had never voted by mail before, on how to complete and return mail-in ballots on time. The topics of covid safety, the 2020 census and elections increasingly overlapped during the run-up to the 2020 United States presidential election. Voting by mail in the 2020 election became a public health issue and a political talking point.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 2020
- Object number
- 2023.2005.11
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Place
- District of Columbia
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- Customers & Commerce
- Election Materials
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Record ID
- npm_2023.2005.11
