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Well and the other question is — do voters and interest groups put pressure on lawmakers to make these changes going forward? I suspect voting rights more broadly are going to be a big issue at the federal level if Democrats win a trifecta, but it’ll be interesting to see if states controlled by Democrats make this a priority going forward too.

Yeah, Kaleigh’s exactly right. A handful of states expanded no-excuse absentee voting in response to the pandemic — Delaware, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York and South Carolina, for example — and another five said the pandemic doesn’t count as a universally valid excuse.

I’d assume, just psychologically, that it’s hard to put the cat back into the bag for something that makes voting more convenient for people. Further, the norms have been trending towards more early voting in more places since the 1980s.