From the newsroom of the Washington Post, Washington Post is Kolby.

Hi, it's Stephanie McCreement from the Washington Post.

This is Post Reports.

I'm Nicole Ellis.

It's Tuesday, August 11th.

Today, do more mail-in ballots mean more problems?

Trump's lost pandemic summer.

And Beijing cracks down in Hong Kong.

An unprecedented number of Americans are going to be able to vote by mail for the general

election in November.

According to our tracker at the Washington Post, it's at least 76% of American voters,

which is nearly 180 million people.

We've never seen numbers like this before in terms of people who can vote by mail or

vote absentee.

It's really been a huge shift because of the pandemic.

My name is Elise Veebeck and I'm a political enterprise and investigations reporter.

There've also been some snags when it comes to some states voting by mail, right?

Like, can you give us a sense of what we've seen in state primaries?

Sure.

So, since the advent of the pandemic, every state has conducted at least one primary day.

And that's given them a chance to test their systems before November.

But in some states, it hasn't been an easy transition to more absentee voting.

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