Object Details
- Description
- Material related to voting by mail during the 2020 US election cycle (primary, general, and special elections) included in this packet are an unused mail-in/absentee ballot, instruction sheet, return envelope and secrecy sleeve for the ballot for official election mail in Washington, DC. See also related material in packet in NPM object numbers 2022.2019.1.1-.5.
- The District of Columbia automatically sent mail-in ballots to all 518,000 active registered voters in the 2020 general election. A government audit later revealed that more than 11% of the ballots sent out were returned undeliverable, most of them in Wards 2 and 8. This ballot was sent to a voter in Ward 1, which includes the neighborhoods of Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Pleasant Plains, and LeDroit Park.
- References:
- Election Assistance Commission, "Election Administration and Voting Survey 2020 Comprehensive Report," (August 2021. Accessed July 27, 2022): https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/document_library/files/2020_EAVS_Report_Final_508c.pdf
- Eli Kales, "Thousands of DC Absentee Ballots Returned as Undeliverable in 2020 Election," The Hoya (December 2, 2021. Accessed July 27, 2022):
- https://thehoya.com/thousands-of-dc-absentee-ballots-returned-as-undeliverable-in-2020-election/
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 2020
- Credit line
- Gift of Dustin Renwick
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
