Does drive through voting increase voter participation?

Last year due to the contagious virus Covid-19; everything was different. Specifically voting throughout the country. In 2020 a presidential election took place. Because of the pandemic, more voters used mail in ballots increasing the amount of votes as a whole. The amount of absentee ballots summited in the 2020 election, almost doubles the amount summited in the 2016 and 2018 general elections (Drew). States across the U.S. made absentee ballots more available because of the challenges the virus created. More people had access to voting and no longer had to worry about traveling miles to a polling place. Concluding more votes as a total.  

In my town Hopkinton, voting was also different. There was no longer any in-person voting. Before Covid, folks would cast their ballots in the school gym. However, because of the pandemic, that was no longer an option due to safety protocols. Last year during the pandemic, residents would fill their ballots out in the safety of theirs home and drop them off from their cars (hence the name "drive through voting"). This increased the amount of votes once again because of availability and easy access. 

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