Ballot security questions plagued the 2020 election, when an estimated 43 percent of voters
cast mail-in ballots in the specter of Covid and the government lockdown policies. That was a huge spike from the 2016 and 2018 elections, which saw about a quarter of all voters mail in their ballots. the clock is ticking, particularly in swing states, to move on election-integrity legislation. A week out from the Iowa caucuses, the first presidential nominating contest of the 2024 election cycle, the ticking is growing louder.