Washington Post unpaywalled: “Election Day in many states now stretches over multiple days or weeks. Across America, jurisdictions have adopted an array of policies that allows for ballots to be cast by mail, in person at early voting sites or that maintain a preference for voting in person on Election Day. The result: a voting experience that is dictated by geography. While nearly every voter in Washington state cast their ballot by mail in the 2022 midterm elections, two-thirds of those in neighboring Idaho voted in person on Election Day. That year, a majority of Texas voters took advantage of early voting, while more than 4 out of 5 Oklahoma voters went to the polls on Election Day. Vermonters voted by mail in droves after their state maintained a coronavirus-era mail voting expansion. Nine out of 10 neighboring New Hampshire voters showed up at a polling place on Election Day. Most states temporarily expanded the options for how voters could cast their ballots in response to the 2020 pandemic, accelerating a decades-long trend away from Election Day in-person voting…”