August 24, 2024 - February 23, 2025
A new exhibition featuring objects from the National Postal Museum’s collection will explore the history of election mail and voting by mail in the United States. Official government election communications play a significant role in America’s democracy; and visitors to the exhibition will learn how mail has been and continues to be a way to provide election information and materials to voters. Over time, events and politics have shaped voting-by-mail legislation with provisions added, removed, and amended. The changing logistical and political reasons for the various ways mail has—and has not—been part of the election process continue to define where, when, and how Americans vote in elections.
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