A new mail-voting exhibition is a reminder that its use dates back to the Civil War

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The “Voting by Mail” exhibition at the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., tracks the long history of mail-in voting in the United States with a selection of historical ballot envelopes, election mailers and photographs.

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum is a reminder that voting by mail with absentee ballots in the U.S. goes back more than 160 years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Image credit: Zayrha Rodriguez)

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum is a reminder that voting by mail with absentee ballots in the U.S. goes back more than 160 years before the COVID-19 pandemic.