This is coronavirus daily from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. More than a dozen states still have primary elections coming up.

Today we'll hear listener questions about how those elections will work and later something uplifting to end the week on.

Selling Author Cheryl Strayed joins NPR's R.E. Shapiro to hear listener stories about acts of kindness they experienced during the pandemic.

Those excerpts come from our friends on the radio show, the national conversation with all things considered. Here's host Michelle Martin.

2020 will surely be remembered as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic. But until early March it was above all a presidential election year.

A crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates was battling it out to challenge President Trump in November.

Former Vice President Joe Biden swept multiple primaries becoming the party's presumptive nominee.

Turnout was expected to reach record highs. Then everything more or less stopped. The pandemic seemed to put the election on pause for many people.

But clearly not for everybody. Many of you sent questions about voting and the election cycle.

So here with some answers is NPR's Miles Parks who covers voting and election interference. Miles good to have you with us.

Hi Michelle. So let's jump right into the questions. First we have Deer Dread in Philadelphia.

Because of COVID-19 voting by mail has been discussed more often than seeing that with a lot of resistance.

My question is who cares. Why does it matter so much to people how we vote? Why the social media pushback?

Miles what can you tell Deer Dread? So she's right. I mean there is a real divide right now when it comes to mail voting.

But I think the real divide is between the White House, you know President Trump and much of the rest of America.

You know broadly people in this country support mail voting. More than 70% of Americans think every registered voter should receive, should have the option to receive a ballot if they want to in the mail.

That's according to a Pew study from earlier this year. And states both Republican and Democratic are expanding access to mail voting right now.

But almost every day we're also seeing tweets from the President and comments from people on his staff that this is a bad, a fraudulent way to vote.

Despite there being no evidence that that's the case. And despite the fact that the President, he himself has voted by mail in the last few election cycles.

So you're seeing this conflict between obviously the person at the top of our government and the rest of the country on how voting should be done in this country.

What about voting online? So voting online is getting a lot more pressed right now because of the pandemic.

I think people are looking at it as like a shiny object that potentially could kind of save us this year because of the pandemic.

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