Across the six states, absentee voting gained popularity.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.concerns, early signs from across the six states voting in Tuesday's primaries showed a high volume of voters turning to absentee options.
Election worker Sharon Welsh opens vote-by-mail ballots for the presidential primary at King County Elections in Renton, Washington, March 10, 2020. On Tuesday, officials said a total of 821,124 absentee ballots had been returned to the secretary of state for all voters across both major parties, representing a 55% increase from 2016.
"It's a huge spike in absentee voting, but we're not sure if that's even indicative of much higher turnout, frankly, so I would point more to that new law than any kind of coronavirus scares," a spokesperson for the Michigan Democratic Party told ABC News. A hand sanitizer station is setup for election workers sorting vote-by-mail ballots for the presidential primary at King County Elections in Renton, Wash., March 10, 2020.State party officials said they were"following their guidance, and we urge everyone else to do so as well. We do not expect it to depress turnout."
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