Title: How mail-in voting began on Civil War battlefields
Headings: How mail-in voting began on Civil War battlefields
How mail-in voting began on Civil War battlefields
How the U.S. uses the mail to vote
The first vote-by-mail uproar
Gallery: How each state is planning for the November elections (Stacker)
Voter fraud and modern controversies

Content: There is no evidence that mail-in voting increases electoral fraud. A recent Washington Post analysis found 0.0025 percent of votes were deemed possibly fraudulent in the 2016 and 2018 elections. In 20 years and 250 million mail-in votes, there have been only 143 criminal convictions related to fraudulent absentee ballots. In the 2016 presidential election, 33 million votes—almost one-quarter of the total—were cast by mail. President Trump appointed a commission to investigate voter fraud after claiming that millions illegally voted. It later disbanded without evidence to support his claim. Trump has claimed that if mail-in voting were adopted nationwide “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” ( Trump himself votes by absentee ballot in Florida.) But a recent Stanford University study examining elections in three states from 1996 to 2018 found no partisan advantage to mail-in voting. “ [ C]laims that vote-by-mail fundamentally advantages one party over the other appear overblown,” the authors wrote. “