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While absentee voting was used on a large scale for the first time during the Civil War, it really took off this year, as states encouraged the practice broadly during the coronavirus pandemic. In Georgia, more than six times as many people cast an absentee vote by mail in the 2020 presidential election than in 2016.
According to the secretary of state’s office, President-elect Joe Biden had almost double the absentee-by-mail votes as President Donald Trump – almost 850,000 for Biden compared with about 450,000 for Trump.
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