Nearly a third of the ballots cast in the presidential election last fall were submitted by mail, despite long-standing efforts from President Trump and other Republicans to discourage the controversial voting method, new research found.

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) released a report this week that found while mail-in ballots didn't hit the record levels seen during the height of the pandemic four years earlier (at 43 percent), the percentage of voters who cast ballots by mail last fall (30.3 percent) remained well above prepandemic levels.

Most voters in the 2024 general election cast their ballots in person, with 37.4 percent on Election Day and 35.2 percent through in-person early voting opportunities, the report found. However, more than 48 million mail-in votes were cast and counted in the 2024........

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