Drop boxes taking center stage in national issue of voter access.
However, with nearly 35 states across the country using or planning to use drop boxes this year,"the use of ballot drop boxes during the 2020 general election will likely be larger than any election in American history," according to a report by the Stanford-MIT run Healthy Elections Project.
Workers drop voters ballots into a secure box at a ballot drop off location on Oct. 13, 2020, in Austin, Texas. Madison, one of the biggest cities in the swing state Wisconsin, began mailing out absentee ballots in September and had planned for their drop boxes to be ready in October, the city clerk there told ABC News, but none of the 14 boxes they ordered had arrived until this week.
Voters cast their ballots for the 2020 US Elections at an offical ballot drop box on a sidewalk in Los Angeles, Oct. 12, 2020. Joel Hondorp, the city clerk in Grand Rapids, Michigan, said officials there did not encounter drop box shortages because they made their own, but said there were shortages of other election supplies, such as ballot collection bags. He likened it to trying to find toilet paper in March.
"They're safe, they're secure, and Coloradans love them," Griswold told ABC News, noting that the boxes are kept up 24-hour video surveillance and are bolted to the ground."Colorado is proof of how well drop boxes work and how secure they are."This photo from video provided by ABC7 Los Angeles shows an unofficial ballot drop box at Grace Baptist Church in Santa Clarita, Calif., in October, 2020.
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