Assessing the Impact of Absentee Voting

Alan Abramowitz finds that eased absentee voting rules in last year’s presidential election contributed to higher voter participation rates, but Joe Biden’s performance still tracked closely with Hillary Clinton’s state-by-state results in 2016 — he just performed slightly better across the board.

His conclusion: “All told, the sharp increase in absentee voting in 2020 wasn’t disproportionately beneficial to either presidential candidate.”