How mail-in voting works

More Americans than ever before can vote by mail this year, as states prepare to hold an election under the conditions of a pandemic.But President Donald Trump’s false claims about the risks of mail voting, problems at the Postal Service and the sheer variety of rules around mail voting — many of them changed because of the global health crisis — have created confusion about the systems.But despite Trump’s claims about the dangers of mail voting, the practice has been a p