Roughly half of Maryland’s electorate plans to avoid the polls for November’s presidential election, using ballot drop boxes or voting by mail instead, according to a Goucher College poll released Thursday.
Democrats and younger voters surveyed were far more likely than other groups to opt for mail-in ballots, mirroring a nationwide trend.
If Goucher’s findings prove true, it would represent a dramatic and historic spike in remote voting in Maryland, where just 5.7 percent of voters requested mail-in ballots in 2016. As of Wednesday, 1,379,541 people had asked for mail-in ballots, a sixfold increase compared to the entire 2016 general election.
The poll also found Democratic nominee Joe Biden (D) with a whopping 31-point lead over President Trump in the deeply Democratic state, which Hillary Clinton carried by 26 percentage points in 2016.
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