Mail ballot instruction sheet
Object Details
- Description
- This mail ballot instruction sheet was distributed by Washington, DC (District of Columbia) Board of Elections for mail voters in the 2020 US general election. The sheet includes "I voted/Yo Vote" sticker. These popular stickers, usually distributed at polling places on election day and generally worn by voters on their clothing, were distributed by mail instead.
- 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
- 2023.2005.12
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Place
- District of Columbia
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- Covers & Letters
- Election Materials
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Record ID
- npm_2023.2005.12
